plan-tests

A test-planning workflow that maps every acceptance criterion in a feature specification to one or more planned tests before any test is written. It also records test levels, dependencies, test data, and cleanup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan unit, integration, end-to-end, contract, or load tests without tying the plan to a particular programming language or test tool.
Why use it?
It prevents important requirements from being left untested and makes the testing approach explicit before coding starts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sdd plugin — 22 skills, 11 agents shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sdd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 11 agents.

Per session 183 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,113 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 $0.00183 $0.03113
Opus 5 $0.00092 $0.01556
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00623
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00311

Measured 3d ago against content hash a5340306d00d, 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 3d 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/plan-tests/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: plan-tests

Turns an already-specified feature into a test plan: a table that ties every acceptance criterion in spec.md §5 to at least one named test, the levels those tests live at (unit / integration / e2e / contract / load), the integration strategy (a real dependency, spun up throwaway), and the test-data + cleanup approach. The plan is written before a single test exists — the next stage, implement, reads this map and writes the red tests against it, not "however it seems". This file is the spine; the output scaffold lives in templates/test-plan.md.

This skill keeps only its own machinery. Question phrasing is shared../_shared/ask-style.md. Depth (inline in the spec vs a separate file) follows the size matrix../_shared/size-matrix.md. It names test levels, never test tools — the concrete commands are detected by implement against the repo, not hard-coded here.

Plan prose follows artifact_language — the ## Test plan heading (parsed downstream), test names and level tokens stay English → ../_shared/artifact-language.md.

Owner

QA + the engineer who will implement the feature (co-authors). QA drives the level breakdown and the edge/error cases; the implementing engineer confirms each acceptance criterion has a reachable test and that the integration strategy fits the repo. The Tech Lead signs off that no acceptance criterion is left uncovered.

Inputs

  • <slug> — the same feature slug every earlier stage used.
  • Gate (hard-refuse if missing): docs/features/<slug>/spec.md. Its §5 acceptance criteria are the entire reason this plan exists — each one must map to a test. If spec.md is absent → STOP and point: «run specify <slug> first — the test plan maps its §5 acceptance criteria to tests».
  • (Optional) docs/features/<slug>/data-model.md — the entity shapes tell you what test data to build and what to seed/clean per suite. Read it if present.
  • (Optional) docs/features/<slug>/sad.md §6 sequence diagrams — each drawn flow is an e2e candidate; each cross-participant boundary is a contract-test candidate.
  • (Optional) docs/features/<slug>/.size — depth hint. Absent → default to M (separate test-plan.md file) and say so loudly in the handoff — «size M (default — no .size; run /sdd:classify-size <slug>)».

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 77 lines · 183 tokens per session scan A a5340306d00d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan-tests is a skill published in the GitHub repository genkovich/sdd (118 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 183 tokens to every session and 3,113 once invoked, about $0.0009 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.

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