testing-discipline

Guidance for writing tests as a clear description of the product rules and deciding when work is complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adding or fixing tests, reproducing bugs with tests, isolating databases and networks, and checking limits or failure cases.
Why use it?
It prevents tests from changing real data, missing boundary cases, or checking only the easy path.

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/oleg494/coding-kit/testing-discipline
Any agent
npx skills add oleg494/coding-kit --skill testing-discipline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oleg494/coding-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,014 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 $0.00110 $0.01014
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00507
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00101

Measured yesterday against content hash bf0914ef6624, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing-discipline 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 yesterday.

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/testing-discipline/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Testing discipline: tests as a spec and defining "done"

1. Isolation and structure

  1. NEVER TOUCH PROD STORE IN TESTS — tests on throwaway storage: env path override + temp file + fresh import. Prod row count unchanged after the suite.
  2. FRESH IMPORT FOR MODULE-LEVEL SIDE EFFECTS — import-time connect/migrate breaks isolation: sys.modules.pop + importlib per test/fixture.
  3. UNIT DOMAIN FIRST, HANDLER WIRING SECOND — business rules without a framework; handlers are thin glue with fakes for I/O. Domain suite green offline in <2s.
  4. FAKE THE EDGES, NOT THE CORE — mock Telegram/HTTP/API; do NOT mock your own business logic "for convenience". Handler test touches the real temp DB.

2. Names and boundaries

  • TEST NAMES ARE THE SPECtest_referral_no_self, test_crypto_idempotent — name = rule. pytest --collect-only reads like a product checklist. NOT test_1, test_works.
  • PRODUCT RULES AS NAMED TESTS — the spec lives in tests: test_free_spent_first, test_cannot_buy_while_paid_remains. A new developer reads the tests = understands the product.
  • ASSERT THE BOUNDARY CASES — at minimum per function: happy + one edge + one abuse. free→0, paid edge, self-ref, double credit, empty username, overflow.
  • WRITE THE ABUSE CASE WHEN YOU WRITE THE GROWTH CASE — referral/promo written with an anti-fraud test in the same PR.

3. Specific tests

  • MONEY PATH: double-submit → balance +X not +2X; provider error injection → balance unchanged; reject → assert not user_exists(...).
  • LIMITS (cap): test before implementation: cap exhausted → False, user not created; monkeypatch.setenv; assert cap and invited >= cap.
  • RATE LIMIT: two consecutive calls → second blocked without external API: mock API → assert len(calls) <= 1.
  • UI: PRESENCE + ROUTING — per UI addition: test_X_exists + test_X_routes_to_Y.
  • USER-FACING COPY AS REGRESSION TESTSassert "key phrase" in TEXT — copy change = breaking change.
  • PAYLOAD VALIDATIONassert len(body.encode("utf-8")) <= PLATFORM_LIMIT before deploy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. yesterday First seen · 61 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A bf0914ef6624

Subscribe to this mod's changes

testing-discipline is a skill published in the GitHub repository oleg494/coding-kit (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 1,014 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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