codeprobe-testing

A code review skill that examines automated tests for missing coverage, weak structure, fragile data, excessive mocking, and other test-quality problems. Test coverage means which parts of the code are exercised by tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a test suite, find missing tests and test smells, review Arrange-Act-Assert structure, and generate prompts for fixes.
Why use it?
It reveals cases where tests may pass while important behavior, errors, permissions, or edge cases remain unchecked.

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/nishilbhave/codeprobe/codeprobe-testing
Any agent
npx skills add nishilbhave/codeprobe --skill codeprobe-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nishilbhave/codeprobe

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,984 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 $0.00075 $0.01984
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00992
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00198

Measured 2d ago against content hash 96bc5383d38f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codeprobe-testing 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 2d 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.

skills/codeprobe-testing/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Standalone Mode

If invoked directly (not via the orchestrator), you must first:

  1. Read ../codeprobe/shared-preamble.md (resolve relative to this SKILL.md's location — the sibling codeprobe skill directory — not the user's project) for the output contract, execution modes, and constraints.
  2. Load applicable reference files from ../codeprobe/references/ (same resolution) based on the project's tech stack.
  3. Default to full mode unless the user specifies otherwise.

Test Quality & Coverage Auditor

Domain Scope

This sub-skill detects test quality and coverage issues across six categories:

  1. Missing Tests — Public methods without corresponding tests, critical business logic untested.
  2. Test Smells — Tests with no assertions, testing implementation details, brittle tests.
  3. Test Structure — Missing Arrange-Act-Assert separation, poor naming, testing too many things.
  4. Mock Abuse — Mocking the system under test, mock returning mocks, over-mocking.
  5. Coverage Gaps — No tests for error paths, authorization logic, edge cases.
  6. Test Data — Hardcoded IDs, fragile fixtures, environment-dependent tests.

What It Does NOT Flag

  • Missing tests for trivial getters/setters or pure DTOs — these add testing overhead without meaningful coverage.
  • Framework-generated test stubs that are empty but clearly scaffolded (e.g., Laravel's ExampleTest.php, Create React App's App.test.js) — these are starting points, not abandoned tests.
  • Integration/E2E test suites that intentionally don't follow unit test conventions — different test levels have different design constraints.
  • Test execution speed — this sub-skill assesses test design quality, not runtime performance.
  • Tests in vendor/, node_modules/, or other dependency directories.

Detection Instructions

Severity Ceiling

No finding from this sub-skill should ever be classified as Critical. Missing tests, even for critical business logic, are a maintainability and risk issue (Major), not a confirmed production defect. The highest severity this sub-skill may assign is Major. Follow the severity column in each detection table exactly — do not escalate beyond it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 2d ago First seen · 114 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 96bc5383d38f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codeprobe-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository nishilbhave/codeprobe (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,984 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.

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