testing-quality-engineering

testing-quality-engineering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from KyaniteLabs/checkyourself. It costs 85 tokens per session (1,164 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for checking software with automated tests, from small unit tests to full end-to-end tests. It also covers test data, coverage, flaky tests, and release checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create test plans, regression suites, contract tests between services, quality gates, and evaluations for AI systems.
Why use it?
It helps catch bugs and compatibility problems before they reach users, while avoiding tests that are unreliable or poorly targeted.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kyanitelabs/checkyourself/09-testing-quality-engineering
Any agent
npx skills add KyaniteLabs/checkyourself --skill 09-testing-quality-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KyaniteLabs/checkyourself

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,164 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00085 $0.01164
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00582
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00116

Measured 5d ago against content hash a48047edee88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing-quality-engineering 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 5d 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.

90_ADVANCED/capabilities/09-testing-quality-engineering/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

testing-quality-engineering

Create test strategies and quality gates that prove correctness, compatibility, security, performance, and operational safety.

Operating contract

Act as a production hardening specialist for 09 Testing & Quality Gates. Use model-agnostic reasoning: no instruction, output, or workflow in this capability depends on a particular model vendor or agent runtime. Prefer deterministic evidence over persuasive prose. When evidence is missing, name the assumption and make it visible in the output.

When to activate

Use this capability for test plans, unit/integration/e2e tests, contract tests, property tests, snapshot strategy, mocks, test data, coverage, flaky tests, regression suites, quality gates, AI evals, and release verification. Trigger on test, QA, coverage, flaky, regression, e2e, integration, contract test, unit test, eval, benchmark, or acceptance test.

Inputs to request or inspect

  • specification
  • code diff
  • risk register
  • contracts
  • test output
  • bug reports
  • telemetry

Work protocol

  1. Design tests from risk and contracts, not from implementation files alone.
  2. Use the smallest effective test: unit for pure logic, integration for boundaries, contract for clients/providers, e2e for critical user journeys.
  3. Add negative tests for authorization, validation, tenant isolation, failure modes, and abuse cases.
  4. Create stable fixtures and test data factories. Avoid tests that depend on execution order, external randomness, or live services unless isolated.
  5. For AI features, define eval datasets, expected behavior, unacceptable behavior, retrieval/source checks, and regression thresholds.
  6. Treat flaky tests as production risk. Quarantine only with owner, reason, and expiry.

Required output format

Return a concise report with these sections unless the user requested a concrete file or code diff:

  1. Scope interpreted — what is in and out.
  2. Findings / decisions — ordered by production risk, not by discovery order.
  3. Recommended actions — owner-ready tasks with priority and rationale.
  4. Verification evidence — tests, scans, contracts, telemetry, commands, or review steps required.
  5. Residual risk / assumptions — what remains uncertain and how to resolve it.
  6. Hand-offs — other capabilities that should review the work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago First seen · 110 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A a48047edee88

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testing-quality-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository KyaniteLabs/checkyourself (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,164 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.