test-strategy

test-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from jakesterns/agent-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (315 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for deciding what software tests a change needs. It covers unit tests for small pieces of logic, integration tests for connections between parts, and end-to-end tests for complete user journeys.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning tests for features, bug fixes, refactors, or releases, including risk priorities, negative cases, existing commands, and gaps needing manual checks.
Why use it?
It prevents teams from either testing too little to catch important failures or maintaining large test suites that add little confidence.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the test-strategy plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Planning tests for features, bug fixes, refactors, or releases, including risk priorities, negative cases, existing commands, and gaps needing manual checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jakesterns/agent-skills/test-strategy
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 jakesterns/agent-skills --skill test-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jakesterns/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install test-strategy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 315 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.
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 $0.00038 $0.00315
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00158
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00032

Measured 6d ago against content hash 3295689527c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-strategy 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 6d 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.

plugins/test-strategy/skills/test-strategy/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Test Strategy

Use this skill when a user asks what to test, how much to test, or how to validate a change before release.

Inputs

  • Feature, bug fix, refactor, pull request, or release scope
  • Existing test framework and commands
  • Known risks, production incidents, or edge cases

Steps

  1. Identify behaviors that must remain true, not just lines of code that changed.
  2. Map risks to test levels: unit for pure logic, integration for contracts and data flow, end-to-end for critical user journeys, regression tests for bugs.
  3. Prioritize tests by impact, likelihood, and cost to maintain.
  4. Include negative cases, boundary cases, permissions, failure modes, and compatibility cases.
  5. Recommend test data and mocks only where they preserve realism.
  6. Define the smallest useful test suite for this change and the broader suite for release confidence.
  7. Provide commands to run if they can be inferred from the repo.

Output

Return:

  • Risk-based test matrix
  • Recommended new or updated tests
  • Existing tests to run
  • Gaps that require manual QA or instrumentation
  • Confidence assessment

Guidelines

  • Avoid blanket "add more tests" advice.
  • Prefer tests that fail for the right reason.
  • Keep tests aligned with user-visible behavior and stable contracts.
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. 6d ago First seen · 41 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 3295689527c9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

test-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository jakesterns/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 315 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 2026-08-31.

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