writing-tests

Guidance for writing tests that are clear, maintainable, and thorough. It covers test names, assertions, and checking unusual or boundary cases; TDD means writing tests as part of the development process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or reviewing tests, choosing assertions, naming cases, or deciding which edge cases to cover.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague testing into focused checks that are easier to understand and less likely to miss important failures.

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/ntcoding/claude-skillz/writing-tests
Any agent
npx skills add NTCoding/claude-skillz --skill writing-tests
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NTCoding/claude-skillz

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,230 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00076 $0.02230
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.01115
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00446
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00223

Measured 3d ago against content hash 22cdc78cd42e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

writing-tests scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

- [ ] Unicode: emojis 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦, RTL text, combining characters - [ ] Special characters: quotes, backslashes, null bytes - [ ] SQL/HTML/script injection patterns - [ ] Leading/trailing whitespace - [ ] Mixed case sens
writing-tests/SKILL.md · 277 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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. 3d ago First seen · 277 lines · 76 tokens per session scan C 22cdc78cd42e

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writing-tests is a skill published in the GitHub repository NTCoding/claude-skillz (342 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 2,230 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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