Test Strategy

Test Strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from niels-emmer/myace. It costs 29 tokens per session (461 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for deciding which parts of a software change need unit, integration, or end-to-end tests. End-to-end tests check complete user journeys across the system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning tests for a feature, reviewing an existing suite, or balancing coverage across test levels.
Why use it?
It prevents test suites from becoming slow, repetitive, or poorly matched to the risks of a change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: mentions Codex; built for aider; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it when planning tests for a feature, reviewing an existing suite, or balancing coverage across test levels.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/niels-emmer/myace/test-strategy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add niels-emmer/myace --skill test-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/niels-emmer/myace

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 461 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 $0.00029 $0.00461
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00046

Measured 6d ago against content hash b91548997a1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Test Strategy 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 6d 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.

collections/additional/qa-testing/skills/test-strategy/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Purpose

A test suite that's the right shape is cheap to run and catches real regressions. This skill is a checklist for deciding what to test at what level, so effort goes where the risk is rather than into a slow, brittle suite that mostly re-tests the same paths.

When to use it

When starting a new feature, adding tests to an existing one, or reviewing whether a suite is well-shaped. Also when a suite has grown unwieldy and needs rebalancing.

Checklist

  • Shape it like a pyramid. Most tests at the unit level (fast, isolated), fewer at integration (boundaries between components), fewest at e2e (critical user journeys). A cone — lots of slow e2e tests — is a maintenance trap.
  • Test at the level that exercises the behavior. Logic belongs in unit tests; a frontend-backend contract belongs in an integration test; a multi-service user journey belongs in e2e. Don't write a slow e2e test for something a unit test covers.
  • Risk-based depth. The deeper the test investment, the higher the change risk: auth, payments, data migration, and concurrency deserve more coverage than a pure UI copy change.
  • Cover failure modes deliberately. Boundaries, empty/null input, partial failures, concurrency, and authorization denials — the happy path is the least likely case to break in production.
  • Coverage is a signal, not a target. Use coverage to find untested paths, not as a pass/fail gate. A covered module with no behavioral assertions isn't tested.

Expected output

A suite that's fast enough to run often, shaped like a pyramid, and concentrated on the behaviors most likely to break — with failure modes covered deliberately rather than by accident.

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. 6d ago First seen · 27 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A b91548997a1f

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Test Strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository niels-emmer/myace (1 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 461 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.