software-test-quality

software-test-quality is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nweii/agent-stuff. It costs 37 tokens per session (712 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for reviewing software tests and choosing between unit, integration, component, and end-to-end tests. TDD, or test-driven development, is a separate approach for building code test-first.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit assertions, fixtures, mocks, coverage, flakiness, and test-level choices.
Why use it?
It helps identify tests that are unreliable, too fragile, too slow, or poorly matched to the behavior they should protect.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to audit assertions, fixtures, mocks, coverage, flakiness, and test-level choices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nweii/agent-stuff/software-test-quality
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 nweii/agent-stuff --skill software-test-quality
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nweii/agent-stuff

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 712 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 $0.00037 $0.00712
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00285
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00071

Measured 5d ago against content hash eaedeb4d6a08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

software-test-quality 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 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.

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/software-test-quality/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Software test quality

Choose the branch that matches the task:

  • Existing tests or suite → Review test quality
  • Proposed behavior or risk → Choose the test level
  • Recent changes with missing regression protection → Read coverage-gaps.md

When building a feature or fixing a bug test-first, use an available tdd skill or the repository’s equivalent test-first procedure. This skill needs access to the code, test conventions, and runnable checks for implementation work; supplied tests are enough for a review.

Review test quality

Review tests through their public seam: the interface where callers observe behavior. A test should fail when that behavior breaks and survive internal refactors that preserve it.

Apply the Desiderata as design lenses, not a checklist:

  • Isolated: results do not depend on execution order or shared mutable state.
  • Composable: tests combine without hidden coupling or cascading setup.
  • Deterministic: unchanged code and inputs produce the same result.
  • Fast: tests are quick enough to run while working.
  • Writable: creation cost is proportionate to the behavior protected.
  • Readable: motivation and expected behavior are clear.
  • Behavioral: the result changes when the behavior changes.
  • Structure-insensitive: internal refactors do not change the result.
  • Automated: tests run without manual intervention.
  • Specific: failures make the likely cause clear.
  • Predictive: passing gives justified confidence in production behavior.
  • Inspiring: the suite increases confidence instead of creating noise, flakes, or avoidance.

Then inspect the failure modes that a structural review can miss:

  • Weak assertions that prove existence instead of behavior.
  • Fixtures that do not represent production inputs.
  • Risky paths that the suite never exercises.
  • Names that disagree with the behavior asserted.
  • Mocks that encode assumptions the real collaborator does not satisfy.
  • Tautological expectations derived through the same logic as the implementation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago Changed · +1 lines · -17 tokens per session eaedeb4d6a08
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 61 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 9422a37b11a0

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software-test-quality is a skill published in the GitHub repository nweii/agent-stuff (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 712 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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