tracing-requirements-to-code

tracing-requirements-to-code is a skill for Claude Code from jaktestowac/awesome-copilot-for-testers. It costs 109 tokens per session (2,713 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A map linking software requirements to the tests that are meant to prove them. It checks whether those links are real and kept up to date.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps find orphan tests, uncovered requirements, false traceability links, and missing links in continuous integration (CI).
Why use it?
It removes the uncertainty of not knowing which tests cover a requirement or which requirements have no test coverage.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps find orphan tests, uncovered requirements, false traceability links, and missing links in continuous integration (CI).

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jaktestowac/awesome-copilot-for-testers/tracing-requirements-to-code
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Any agent
npx skills add jaktestowac/awesome-copilot-for-testers --skill tracing-requirements-to-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jaktestowac/awesome-copilot-for-testers

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,713 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 $0.00109 $0.02713
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01357
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00543
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00271

Measured 7d ago against content hash 340fe4b28427, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tracing-requirements-to-code 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 7d 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/tracing-requirements-to-code/skills/tracing-requirements-to-code/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tracing Requirements to Code

Use this skill when the tests already exist and the question is what they actually verify.

Traceability is usually taught forward: take a specification, derive requirements, plan tests. That is requirements-test-coverage-mapper, and it is the right skill when you start from a document. This skill handles the other and more common situation: a live codebase, hundreds of tests, requirements scattered across a tracker and three documents, and no reliable statement of which test proves what.

The insistence that makes this worth doing: a traceability link is a claim, not a record. A test tagged @req REQ-014 claims to verify REQ-014, and nothing about writing the tag makes that true. An unverified matrix is worse than no matrix, because it converts ignorance into documented confidence, and it is exactly the artifact people reach for when deciding what not to test.

When to Use

  • a suite exists and nobody can say which requirement a given test serves
  • someone asks "which tests cover this requirement" and the answer takes a day
  • a matrix was built once, was accurate that week, and has not been true since
  • a requirement is changing and its affected tests must be found
  • tests exist that nobody can trace to any requirement
  • an audit, certification, or customer questionnaire needs coverage evidence

Operating Principles

  • Traceability runs both ways. Requirement to test finds coverage gaps. Test to requirement finds orphan tests, and nobody looks in that direction.
  • A link is verified or it is a guess. The test must fail when the requirement's behaviour is broken. Until it has been seen to, the link is unconfirmed and labelled as such.
  • Extract from evidence, not from titles. A test called "validates the discount rule" is a hypothesis about what it does. The assertions are the evidence.
  • The matrix lives in the code, not in a spreadsheet. A link stored beside the test moves when the test moves. A link in a document rots the first time anyone refactors.
  • Orphans are findings in both directions. An uncovered requirement is a coverage gap. An orphan test is either an undocumented requirement or a test of nothing, and both are worth knowing.
  • Drift is the default. Links rot silently through renames, deletions, and refactors. Without a CI check, the matrix is accurate on the day it is written and decreasingly true afterwards.

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 7d ago First seen · 189 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 340fe4b28427

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tracing-requirements-to-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository jaktestowac/awesome-copilot-for-testers (113 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 2,713 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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