property-based-testing

property-based-testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CraftOS-dev/CraftBot. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,407 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to property-based testing, a method that checks software against many generated inputs and general rules instead of only fixed examples.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when testing serialization, parsing, normalization, validation, sorting, mathematical functions, or smart contracts.
Why use it?
It can reveal edge cases that example-based tests may miss, especially in parsers, validators, data structures, and reversible conversions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when testing serialization, parsing, normalization, validation, sorting, mathematical functions, or smart contracts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/craftos-dev/craftbot/property-based-testing
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add CraftOS-dev/CraftBot --skill property-based-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CraftOS-dev/CraftBot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,407 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00049 $0.01407
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00563
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00141

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f482f34ce65e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

property-based-testing scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/property-based-testing/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Property-Based Testing Guide

Use this skill proactively during development when you encounter patterns where PBT provides stronger coverage than example-based tests.

When to Invoke (Automatic Detection)

Invoke this skill when you detect:

  • Serialization pairs: encode/decode, serialize/deserialize, toJSON/fromJSON, pack/unpack
  • Parsers: URL parsing, config parsing, protocol parsing, string-to-structured-data
  • Normalization: normalize, sanitize, clean, canonicalize, format
  • Validators: is_valid, validate, check_* (especially with normalizers)
  • Data structures: Custom collections with add/remove/get operations
  • Mathematical/algorithmic: Pure functions, sorting, ordering, comparators
  • Smart contracts: Solidity/Vyper contracts, token operations, state invariants, access control

Priority by pattern:

Pattern Property Priority
encode/decode pair Roundtrip HIGH
Pure function Multiple HIGH
Validator Valid after normalize MEDIUM
Sorting/ordering Idempotence + ordering MEDIUM
Normalization Idempotence MEDIUM
Builder/factory Output invariants LOW
Smart contract State invariants HIGH

When NOT to Use

Do NOT use this skill for:

  • Simple CRUD operations without transformation logic
  • One-off scripts or throwaway code
  • Code with side effects that cannot be isolated (network calls, database writes)
  • Tests where specific example cases are sufficient and edge cases are well-understood
  • Integration or end-to-end testing (PBT is best for unit/component testing)

Property Catalog (Quick Reference)

Property Formula When to Use
Roundtrip decode(encode(x)) == x Serialization, conversion pairs
Idempotence f(f(x)) == f(x) Normalization, formatting, sorting
Invariant Property holds before/after Any transformation
Commutativity f(a, b) == f(b, a) Binary/set operations
Associativity f(f(a,b), c) == f(a, f(b,c)) Combining operations
Identity f(x, identity) == x Operations with neutral element
Inverse f(g(x)) == x encrypt/decrypt, compress/decompress
Oracle new_impl(x) == reference(x) Optimization, refactoring
Easy to Verify is_sorted(sort(x)) Complex algorithms
No Exception No crash on valid input Baseline property

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 124 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A f482f34ce65e

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property-based-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository CraftOS-dev/CraftBot (395 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,407 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.