A testing guide for choosing checks that provide appropriate proof for a code, documentation, configuration, workflow, skill, or evaluation change. It maps changed areas to repository and CI commands.

Use it to select tests and CI gates, diagnose failures, assess coverage, preserve logs or traces, and verify completion before merging, releasing, or handing off work.

It helps avoid both missing important checks and running broad tests that do not prove the changed behavior. It also separates failures caused by the change from environment or ownership problems.

testing — Skill for Codex by jscraik/Agent-Skills

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 jscraik/Agent-Skills --skill testing

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jscraik/Agent-Skills

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jscraik/agent-skills/testing/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jscraik/agent-skills/testing)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jscraik/agent-skills/testing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jscraik/agent-skills/testing/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jscraik/agent-skills/testing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jscraik/agent-skills/testing.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,611 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00086	$0.02611
Opus 5.5	$0.00034	$0.01044
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00017	$0.00522
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00261

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 978b92ddcebb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing 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.

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/agent-ops/testing/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Testing

Select the smallest real proof that exercises the changed behavior, then widen only as the repo contract and risk surface require.

When To Use

Choose validation for code, docs, config, workflow, skill, or eval changes.
Fix failing tests, classify validation ownership, or design coverage.
Design or audit a repository's test layers and local/CI gate placement.
Prove completion before handoff, PR, merge, release, or closeout claims.

Inputs

Target repo, changed files, nearest instructions, claim under test, repo command contracts, wrapper working directory, environment or credential materialization, prior failures, and known blockers.

Outputs

Exact commands with pass, fail, or blocked outcomes.
Failure ownership plus the evidence artifact: log, trace, schema output, eval fixture, package receipt, or workflow-closeout receipt.
Coverage gaps and next minimal diagnostic.
When delivery is in scope, the validated report path, delivery receipt path, and exact command that checked each artifact.

Workflow

Read the repo instructions and command contracts.
Inspect the changed behavior, existing tests or fixtures, and the canonical wrapper that owns them. Identify what is already proved, what rejection or boundary behavior is missing, and whether the wrapper changes into a package root or rewrites paths.
Name the exact invariant and proof lane: structural, deterministic behavior, trace analysis, calibrated judge, baseline comparison, regression retention, production guardrail, or delivery receipt.
Run the narrowest command that exercises production code, a real CLI/script, validator, schema, artifact path, or installed/package path.
If it fails, classify ownership and fix only the in-scope cause. Rerun the same proof before widening. Use the exact same command when it was valid; when the failure came from wrapper-relative paths, working-directory semantics, tool shims, environment materialization, or unsupported flags, preserve the failed command and rerun the corrected canonical command.
For validators, schemas, parsers, policy gates, and artifact contracts, require at least one accepted case and one rejected case for each meaningful invariant. Include boundary or false-positive protection when widening detection.
Widen through the canonical wrapper, affected suite, schema or artifact lane, and repository-required diff or generated-state checks. Run hosted, review, external, Tessl, runtime, or delivery lanes only when they are in scope.
Report only the lanes actually proven. When durable delivery is required, validate the report and delivery receipt after code and test proof.

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 lines

Files

What ships with it

23 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.

1mo ago First seen · 208 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 978b92ddcebb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository jscraik/Agent-Skills (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 2,611 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 2026-09-03.

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