testing-anti-patterns

testing-anti-patterns is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kntism/skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,941 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A testing guide for writing and changing tests, including decisions about mocks, which are test substitutes for real dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing test changes, choosing safer test structures, and avoiding common testing mistakes.
Why use it?
It helps prevent tests that only verify the mock, test-only code added to production, or mocks used without understanding the real dependency.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It is for reviewing test changes, choosing safer test structures, and avoiding common testing mistakes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kntism/skills/testing-anti-patterns
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 kntism/skills --skill testing-anti-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kntism/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin testing-anti-patterns — /plugin install testing-anti-patterns after adding the marketplace above.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,941 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 unknown 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 $0.00044 $0.01941
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00776
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00194

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4cc391c1e8f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing-anti-patterns 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.

testing-anti-patterns/SKILL.md · 303 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago First seen · 303 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 4cc391c1e8f2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

testing-anti-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository kntism/skills (1 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,941 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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