unit-test-writing

unit-test-writing is a skill for Claude Code from metaschema-framework/claude-plugins. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,129 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

Guidance for writing unit tests, which check small pieces of code separately from the rest of an application. It includes a checklist for unusual, invalid, missing, and boundary inputs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to expand test coverage, structure new unit tests, and check cases such as empty values, duplicates, missing fields, invalid data, ordering, and state changes.
Why use it?
It helps developers find cases that ordinary tests often miss, especially when loading XML, JSON, or YAML configuration.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the dev-metaschema plugin — 7 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to expand test coverage, structure new unit tests, and check cases such as empty values, duplicates, missing fields, invalid data, ordering, and state changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/metaschema-framework/claude-plugins/unit-test-writing
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 metaschema-framework/claude-plugins --skill unit-test-writing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/metaschema-framework/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-metaschema, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 3 commands.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,129 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 $0.00024 $0.01129
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00452
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00113

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 26d990b25f9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

unit-test-writing 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 2mo 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.

plugins/dev-metaschema/skills/unit-test-writing/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.

Unit Test Writing Skill

When to Use

  • Writing new unit tests
  • Expanding test coverage on existing code
  • Reviewing test completeness

Edge Case Checklist

Create TodoWrite items for each applicable category:

Category Examples Check
Empty/Null Empty string, null reference, empty collection ☐
Boundaries Zero, negative, max int, min int, boundary values ☐
Invalid Wrong type, malformed input, out of range ☐
Missing Required field absent, partial data, missing nested element ☐
Duplicates Repeated values, duplicate keys ☐
Ordering First, last, middle, unsorted ☐
Concurrency Race conditions, thread safety (if applicable) ☐
State Uninitialized, already processed, closed ☐
Combinations Multiple flags, conflicting options ☐

Configuration/Parsing Edge Cases

When testing XML/JSON/YAML configuration loading, always test:

Scenario Test Case Expected
Missing optional child Parent element exists, optional child absent Null or default value
Empty element <element/> or <element></element> Empty string or null
Unknown module Query from module not in config Null, not exception
Unknown definition Query definition not in config Null, not exception
Partial config Some fields present, others missing Only specified fields set
Multiple types Same pattern for different parent types (assembly vs field) Both work correctly

Example edge case test structure:

@Test
void testMissingOptionalElement() throws IOException {
    // Load config with element that has no optional child
    config.load(new File("edge-cases.xml"));

    // Query should return null, not throw
    IPropertyBindingConfiguration result = config.getPropertyBindingConfiguration(definition, "missing-child");
    assertNull(result, "Missing optional element should return null");
}

Coverage Expansion Workflow

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. 2mo ago First seen · 186 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 26d990b25f9b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

unit-test-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository metaschema-framework/claude-plugins (10 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,129 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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