test-authoring

test-authoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Netcracker/qubership-ai-packages. It costs 234 tokens per session (14,718 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for writing, editing, and reviewing software tests. It explains what a test should establish, which testing level fits, what inputs to use, and how failures should read.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for choosing and authoring tests for behavior changes, deciding between testing levels, and checking whether a change is tested sufficiently.
Why use it?
It reduces tests that pass without proving the intended behavior or fail without showing what went wrong.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit It is for choosing and authoring tests for behavior changes, deciding between testing levels, and checking whether a change is tested sufficiently.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/netcracker/qubership-ai-packages/test-authoring
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 Netcracker/qubership-ai-packages --skill test-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-ai-packages

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

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Per session 234 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 14,718 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 $0.00234 $0.14718
Opus 5.5 $0.00094 $0.05887
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00047 $0.02944
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.01472

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8fb33e4c3d49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-authoring 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 10d 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.

agent-packages/test-authoring/.apm/skills/test-authoring/SKILL.md · 794 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 794 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Authoring a test

This skill governs what a test establishes, at which level, with which inputs, and how its failure reads. Wording, tone, and the phrasing of a name or a message once its content is decided belong to the developer-style skill of the language the repository writes in: english-developer-style unless the repository's instructions name another, such as russian-developer-style or french-developer-style; load it too. The comment or docstring above a test belongs to the doc-comment skill of its programming language (javadoc-authoring, godoc-authoring, pythondoc-authoring, rustdoc-authoring, jsdoc-authoring). The commit message and the pull request description belong to change-description-authoring.

Where the expected value is unknown and has to be learned by querying another system (a legacy service being ported, a vendor binary without source, a reference stand that answers a parity or golden suite), which questions to send it is blackbox-test-design's subject; load it too. This skill still governs each test that carries a question.

0. Which references to open

The rules below hold in every framework. What each framework prints, which of its assertions carry the values, where the message goes, and how a case is named are in references/, one file per role a library plays in the test, grouped by ecosystem. Before writing the first assertion, read the file for the project's test engine and the file for its assertion library (a matcher library on JUnit adds the JUnit assertions file, as the rule on report forms below says). Open the other roles' files where the change calls for them, and no other.

Role Decides Files
Test engine The container and the name in the report (§7), parameterized case names, random order (§8) java/junit5.md (JUnit 5 and 6), java/junit4.md, python/pytest.md, go/testing.md, rust/libtest.md, javascript/jest.md, javascript/vitest.md, javascript/node-test.md
Assertion library Which call prints the operands, the operand order, where the message goes, grouped assertions, error assertions (§7) java/junit5-assertions.md, java/junit4-assert.md, java/assertj.md, java/truth.md, java/hamcrest.md, go/testify.md. pytest, Go testing, cargo test, Jest, Vitest, and node:test are both engine and assertions, and their engine file covers this role
Test doubles How the shapes of §5 and §6 look in the library, what a verification failure prints java/mockito.md
Property-based testing The seed, the reproducer, the explicit example a counterexample becomes (§4) java/jetcheck.md
Structural tests The test on an open set of classes (§4) java/archunit.md
Mutation What the tool's verdicts mean (§1, §10) mutation-tools.md, one table covering every ecosystem

Read the full file on GitHub · 794 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. 10d ago Changed · +4 lines 8fb33e4c3d49
  2. 12d ago Changed · +294 lines · +9 tokens per session 02fdd7e32edd
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 496 lines · 225 tokens per session scan A fad69497976c

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test-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository Netcracker/qubership-ai-packages (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 234 tokens to every session and 14,718 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-10.

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