Ginkgo is a Go testing framework for writing organized, expressive specifications, including unit, integration, and performance tests. Go developers use it with the Gomega matcher library to describe behavior and run test suites.
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 onsi/ginkgo --skill runninggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onsi/ginkgoWrote 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/onsi/ginkgo/running)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/onsi/ginkgo/running"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/onsi/ginkgo/running/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/onsi/ginkgo/running"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/onsi/ginkgo/running.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 | $0.00142 | $0.01760 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00057 | $0.00704 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00028 | $0.00352 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00176 |
Grade A, and why
running 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 2mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Running Ginkgo
How to drive the suite once it's wired up (ginkgo:setup). For a production CI configuration, see ginkgo:ci. Docs: https://onsi.github.io/ginkgo/#ginkgo-cli-overview.
The CLI surface
ginkgo is the recommended runner — you can run suites with go test, but only the CLI does parallelism and profile aggregation, and a few go test flags (e.g. -count=N, use --repeat=N) are unsupported. ginkgo is shorthand for ginkgo run; it passes through nearly all go test/go build flags.
ginkgo # run the suite in the current directory
ginkgo path/to/suite path/to/other # run several named suites
ginkgo -r # recurse the tree, run every suite found (== ginkgo ./...)
ginkgo -p # run in parallel (→ ginkgo:parallelism)
ginkgo -v --dry-run # build the tree and print what WOULD run, without running
ginkgo <GINKGO-FLAGS> <PACKAGES> -- <PASS-THROUGHS> # the full grammar
Ginkgo flags must come before the package list; suite-bound args go after --. Subcommands:
| Command | Does |
|---|---|
ginkgo build path/... |
Precompile each suite to a package.test binary (accepts a subset of run flags — compile-time only) |
ginkgo watch -r -p |
Re-run suites when they or their dependencies change (-depth tunes dependency monitoring) |
ginkgo bootstrap / ginkgo generate <subject> |
Scaffold a suite / a spec file (→ ginkgo:setup); both take --template/--template-data |
ginkgo outline <file> |
Static (AST-parsed) spec outline as csv/indent/json — no compile needed |
ginkgo unfocus |
Strip all programmatic F-focus from the tree (→ ginkgo:filtering) |
ginkgo labels |
List the Labels used in a suite (naive parse) |
ginkgo version |
Print the CLI version |
Precompiled binaries run via ginkgo package.test or ./package.test — but to run a precompiled suite in parallel you must go back through the CLI: ginkgo -p ./package.test. Cross-compile with the usual GOOS/GOARCH.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 109 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A ff5a2a259e63
running is a skill published in the GitHub repository onsi/ginkgo (9,072 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 1,760 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.
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