test-estimation

test-estimation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from katalon-labs/true-skills. It costs 198 tokens per session (4,413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Katalon TestOps testing-effort estimate covering time, people, and work across a testing cycle. It produces a range with a confidence label rather than one exact figure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to estimate test design, manual and automated execution, configuration coverage, duration, person-hours, and required headcount.
Why use it?
It separates measurable test scope from uncertain human effort, helping teams judge whether work fits a sprint window and understand the cost of scope changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to estimate test design, manual and automated execution, configuration coverage, duration, person-hours, and required headcount.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/katalon-labs/true-skills/test-estimation
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 katalon-labs/true-skills --skill test-estimation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/katalon-labs/true-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 198 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,413 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 $0.00198 $0.04413
Opus 5 $0.00099 $0.02207
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00883
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00441

Measured 9d ago against content hash d54c3ce528e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-estimation 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 9d 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.

.github/skills/test-estimation/SKILL.md · 229 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 229 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Katalon Test Estimation

Use this skill for the estimation half of the planning stage: turn a scoped cycle into person-hours, a date, and a headcount. The output is a range with a confidence label, never a single number. test-plan decides what gets tested; this skill decides what that costs.

Availability Boundary

State this before producing any number.

The Katalon MCP can count the work. It cannot measure the effort.

  • Available via MCP: case and suite counts (find_test_cases, read_test_suite, find_test_cases_by_requirement), uncovered requirements (fetch_requirement_data), automated/manual split when exposed (fetch_test_case_data), failure and flake rates (fetch_test_stability_data, find_test_results), the configuration matrix (fetch_test_configuration_data), the cycle window (find_iterations), and a past execution's machine-recorded elapsed time (read_execution, read_execution_test_results).
  • Not available at all: how long a person takes. No tool books effort against a case, a run, or a person. A manual run's open and close timestamps are calendar elapsed, not work.
  • Also not available: team roster, capacity, PTO, or working calendar; any cost or rate model; a field to write the estimate back into; any cross-cycle aggregate such as average cycle duration.
  • Looks like MCP data but is not: session concurrency. list_test_cloud_environments and find_execution_profiles list environments and profiles, not the number of parallel sessions the plan allows. Tag it team-supplied.
  • Field-level rule: read one record with read_execution and confirm the elapsed-time field is present before modelling on it. If it is absent, ask for the figure and label it team-supplied. Never let a missing field become a zero.

The consequence: every per-unit rate is team-supplied and must be tagged as such in the output. Read references/mcp-evidence-map.md for the full signal-to-tool map and the human-input checklist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 229 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 229 lines · 198 tokens per session scan A d54c3ce528e1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

test-estimation is a skill published in the GitHub repository katalon-labs/true-skills (8 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 198 tokens to every session and 4,413 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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