plan-tests

A test-architecture planning workflow for a software epic before implementation starts. It classifies scenarios by risk and decides whether each belongs in unit, integration or end-to-end tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a prioritized test plan for an epic, including scenario IDs, test-level assignments, fixture plans, network intercepts, mocks and verification commands.
Why use it?
It helps teams spend testing effort where failures matter most and avoid putting every check at the slowest test level. It also defines fixtures and checks for non-functional requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielvm-git/bigpowers/plan-tests
Any agent
npx skills add danielvm-git/bigpowers --skill plan-tests
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 732 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00038 $0.00732
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00366
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash bf2bfb3eae96, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-tests 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 2d 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.

.cline/skills/plan-tests/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan Tests

Spine position: Between slice-tasks and plan-work for epics with risk: P0|P1. Optional (can be waived in state.yaml) for P2/P3.

Bridges the gap between slicing and planning by systematically designing the test suite as a first-class system. Produces specs/tech-architecture/eNN-TEST_PLAN_LATEST.md.

Pre-flight

  • Read specs/epics/eNN-*/ story list.

Core Workflow

  1. Analyze Epic: Read sliced stories in the active epic capsule.
  2. Risk Assessment: Map behaviors to P0–P3 risk tiers.
  3. Level Strategy: Classify each scenario (Unit, Integration, E2E).
  4. Fixture Design: Plan factories, network intercepts, mocks (see REFERENCE.md).
  5. NFR Plan: Define verifiable commands for Non-Functional Requirements. Skip if --lite.
  6. Publish: Generate specs/tech-architecture/eNN-TEST_PLAN_LATEST.md.

Hard Gates & Guardrails

  • DO NOT write test code or production code during this skill.
  • Scenario ID format MUST be: SC-eNNsYY-P{0|1|2|3}-NN.
  • plan-work MUST reference these scenario IDs in its §17 Gherkin acceptance criteria.
  • Default to pushing tests to the lowest possible level.

Execution Modes

  • $bmad plan-tests: Standard execution.
  • $bmad plan-tests --lite: Skips NFRs and complex fixture planning.

Verify

→ verify: test -f specs/tech-architecture/e32-TEST_PLAN_LATEST.md

Handoff

Gate: READY -> next: plan-work Writes: state.yaml handoff.next_skill = plan-work


Plan Tests — Reference

Test Plan Template (specs/tech-architecture/eNN-TEST_PLAN_LATEST.md)

# Test Design: [eNN-slug]

## 1. Risk Matrix & Scenarios
| Scenario ID | Behavior Description | Risk | Test Level | Target File/Module |
|-------------|----------------------|------|------------|--------------------|  
| SC-P0-01    | Primary checkout     | P0   | Integration | checkout.spec.ts  |

## 2. Fixture Architecture & Isolation
- Data Factories: (e.g. UserFactory)
- Network Intercepts: (e.g. MSW handlers)
- Database State: (e.g. in-memory SQLite)

## 3. NFR Verification
| NFR Type | Requirement | Verification Command |
|----------|-------------|----------------------|
| Perf     | < 200ms     | `npm run test:perf`  |

## 4. Out of Scope
- [Explicitly excluded testing areas]

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 76 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A bf2bfb3eae96

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan-tests is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielvm-git/bigpowers (156 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 732 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

shared/tech-stack-detection

检测项目技术栈的通用方法,通过分析配置文件识别语言、框架、工具链.

echoVic/boss-skill · 29 tokens

devops/changelog-generation

自动生成 CHANGELOG,基于 git 提交历史和 pipeline 产物信息,遵循 Conventional Commits 和 Keep a Changelog 规范.

echoVic/boss-skill · 36 tokens

boss

可审计的 agent 团队:BMAD 全自动研发流水线编排器。编排 9 个专业 Agent(PM、架构师、UI Designer、Tech Lead、Scrum Master、Frontend、Backend、QA、DevOps)从需求到部署,每一步都有事件溯源 + 不可绕过门禁 + 确定性 eval——可验证测试真跑、门禁真过。支持单环节切片命令(/boss:plan /review /qa /ship)与无 CLI 纯 Markdown 降级。 Triggers: 'boss mode', '/boss', '全自动开发', '从需求到部署', '帮我做一个', 'build this', 'ship it', '全流程'…

echoVic/boss-skill · 277 tokens

debloat

Compress an artifact that has accreted into bloat — padding, over-qualification, fused sentences, walls of enumeration, adjacent restatement — down to its load-bearing density, meaning preserved. Use when prose is correct and current but has grown verbose or patched-over and you want it tight without a full rewrite.

LilMGenius/paperthin · 66 tokens

bmad-dev-story

Execute story implementation following a context filled story spec file. Use when the user says "dev this story [story file]" or "implement the next story in the sprint plan".

LarsCowe/bmalph · 40 tokens

bmad-validate-prd

Validate a PRD against standards. Use when the user says "validate this PRD" or "run PRD validation".

LarsCowe/bmalph · 32 tokens