test-reaper

test-reaper is a skill for Claude Code from jerseycheese/agent-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (4,628 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for finding tests that are duplicates, prove almost nothing, or check the wrong behavior. It separates tests with no meaningful checks from tests that miss the behavior they should verify.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing test suites, removing dead or trivial tests, and identifying tests that need stronger behavior checks.
Why use it?
Passing tests can create false confidence and make a test suite larger without making it safer. This helps identify that hidden problem without treating every weak test as disposable.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the workflow-skills plugin — 34 skills shipped together

Good fit Reviewing test suites, removing dead or trivial tests, and identifying tests that need stronger behavior checks.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install workflow-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,628 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 $0.00073 $0.04628
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.01851
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00926
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00463

Measured 8d ago against content hash b898fbf1146e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-reaper 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 8d 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/test-reaper/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Test Reaper

A test suite rots differently than source. Nothing goes red, nothing gets flagged, the count keeps climbing, and confidence quietly decouples from coverage. The tests that hurt most are not the broken ones - they're the ones that pass no matter what you do to the code.

dead-code-cleanup already covers the classic markers: snapshot-only tests, renders without crashing, .skip, orphaned files. In a repo that has been kept up, those all return zero, and the sweep stops there having found nothing. This skill starts where that one runs out.

Also watch for a newer kind of dead weight: a test added after deleting stale text/config/CSS that reads a file and asserts the old string is gone. Those tests feel like regression coverage, but most of them only make the deletion permanent in the narrowest possible way. If the old reference comes back, the real question is whether behavior broke; if no behavior is observed, the test is just a grep with a Jest wrapper.

The distinction that drives every decision here: a test that asserts nothing and a test that asserts the wrong thing are different problems. The first is dead weight and gets reaped. The second is a coverage gap wearing a passing test as a disguise, and reaping it silently drops the intent. Never treat them the same.

There's one more failure this skill has to look for, and you can't see it by reading tests one at a time: the seam gap. The page test mocks the API client. The route test feeds the handler a hand-rolled 300-byte fixture. The E2E spec opens the dialog and never submits it. Each test is honest about its own half, and every one of them is green. Still, nothing ever sends a realistic payload across the real boundary, so a payload-size limit or a missing field ships without anyone noticing. A sweep that only judges individual tests will call this suite clean. Judge the seams too.

Sibling skills, so you don't do their job

  • test-fix repairs failing tests, with a 3-attempt limit. Red tests are its problem, not this skill's.
  • dead-code-cleanup removes tests whose subject is gone. If the component was deleted, that's a dead-code sweep.
  • kiss trims test coverage added beyond the scope of a change. That's a diff-level lens; this is a suite-level one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 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. 8d ago Changed · +53 lines · -85 tokens per session b898fbf1146e
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +12 lines · +12 tokens per session 652011f8f069
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 121 lines · 146 tokens per session scan A c2555e150ae9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

test-reaper is a skill published in the GitHub repository jerseycheese/agent-skills (3 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 4,628 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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