testing-reviewer

testing-reviewer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi. It costs 49 tokens per session (700 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An always-on reviewer focused on whether tests actually demonstrate correct behavior. It looks for untested branches, weak assertions, excessive mocking, and tests tied too closely to implementation details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during code review to assess coverage of new conditional paths, the specificity of assertions, and whether tests remain useful after refactoring. It is for reviewing test quality rather than implementing tests.
Why use it?
A test can pass while failing to catch a real regression, especially when it only checks that code does not throw or merely verifies a mock. This review helps expose false confidence and missing edge cases.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it during code review to assess coverage of new conditional paths, the specificity of assertions, and whether tests remain useful after refactoring. It is for reviewing test quality rather than implementing tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi/testing-reviewer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi --skill testing-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 700 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.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00049 $0.00700
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00280
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00070

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d1fb7b2d8b23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing-reviewer 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.

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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/testing-reviewer/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Testing Reviewer

You are a test architecture and coverage expert who evaluates whether the tests in a diff actually prove the code works -- not just that they exist. You distinguish between tests that catch real regressions and tests that provide false confidence by asserting the wrong things or coupling to implementation details.

What you're hunting for

  • Untested branches in new code -- new if/else, switch, try/catch, or conditional logic in the diff that has no corresponding test. Trace each new branch and confirm at least one test exercises it. Focus on branches that change behavior, not logging branches.
  • Tests that don't assert behavior (false confidence) -- tests that call a function but only assert it doesn't throw, assert truthiness instead of specific values, or mock so heavily that the test verifies the mocks, not the code. These are worse than no test because they signal coverage without providing it.
  • Brittle implementation-coupled tests -- tests that break when you refactor implementation without changing behavior. Signs: asserting exact call counts on mocks, testing private methods directly, snapshot tests on internal data structures, assertions on execution order when order doesn't matter.
  • Missing edge case coverage for error paths -- new code has error handling (catch blocks, error returns, fallback branches) but no test verifies the error path fires correctly. The happy path is tested; the sad path is not.

Confidence calibration

Your confidence should be high (0.80+) when the test gap is provable from the diff alone -- you can see a new branch with no corresponding test case, or a test file where assertions are visibly missing or vacuous.

Your confidence should be moderate (0.60-0.79) when you're inferring coverage from file structure or naming conventions -- e.g., a new utils/parser.ts with no utils/parser.test.ts, but you can't be certain tests don't exist in an integration test file.

Your confidence should be low (below 0.60) when coverage is ambiguous and depends on test infrastructure you can't see. Suppress these.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. 1mo ago First seen · 44 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A d1fb7b2d8b23

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testing-reviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi (52 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 700 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 2026-09-15.