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.
npx skills add nWave-ai/nWave --skill nw-test-design-mandatesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nWave-ai/nWaveWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-test-design-mandates)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-test-design-mandates"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-test-design-mandates/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-test-design-mandates"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-test-design-mandates.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00069 | $0.04605 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.02302 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00921 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00460 |
Grade A, and why
nw-test-design-mandates scanned grade A 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 5d 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
`requests.post()` in step method | `db.execute()` in step method | `assert response.status_code` | Technical terms in Gherkin How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 329 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Acceptance Test Design Mandates
Four mandates enforced during peer review. All must pass before handoff to software-crafter.
LANGUAGE CONVENTION FRAME (read FIRST — overrides all examples below)
Code examples in this skill use Python syntax for illustration only. They are NOT prescriptive about target language. nWave is language-agnostic per the "genericity and agnosticism" mandate (2026-05-24).
Before applying mandates, detect the target project's language from manifest files: package.json → TypeScript/JS; Cargo.toml → Rust; go.mod → Go; pyproject.toml/setup.py/Pipfile → Python; pom.xml/build.gradle → Java/Kotlin; *.csproj/*.fsproj → C#/F#; Gemfile → Ruby; Package.swift → Swift.
When the target language is NOT Python: adapt EVERY code example — replace Python imports (from pytest_bdd import ..., from hypothesis import ...), type hints, class/function syntax, test-framework idioms, directory conventions (tests/ vs test/ vs __tests__/) with target equivalents. Project conventions ALWAYS WIN over skill examples — if the user's repo has 50 TS files and zero Python files, mandates apply via TypeScript test framework, never Python pytest.
Empirical anchor: 5 of 5 Python code blocks in this skill, zero TS/Go/Rust — root-cause for language-leak per F-SKILL-EXAMPLES-LANGUAGE-LEAK. Connects [[feedback_language_adapter_plugin_architecture_2026_05_24]] (genericity mandate).
Mandate 1: Hexagonal Boundary Enforcement
Tests invoke through driving ports (entry points), never internal components.
Driving Ports (Test Through These)
Application services/orchestrators | API controllers/CLI handlers | Message consumers/event handlers | Public API facade classes
Not Entry Points (Never Test Directly)
Internal validators, parsers, formatters | Domain entities/value objects | Repository implementations | Internal service components
Correct Pattern
# Invoke through system entry point (driving port)
from myapp.orchestrator import AppOrchestrator
def when_user_performs_action(self):
orchestrator = AppOrchestrator()
self.result = orchestrator.perform_action(
context=self.context
)
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 329 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A bb4758584463
nw-test-design-mandates is a skill published in the GitHub repository nWave-ai/nWave (610 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 4,605 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-06.
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