test-engineer

test-engineer is a skill for Claude Code from P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins. It costs 29 tokens per session (4,721 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A hardware testing role focused on checking whether electronic designs can be tested from early prototypes through small production runs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan test strategies, design test fixtures, write production test procedures, and plan validation campaigns for hardware.
Why use it?
It provides a defined approach for finding faults and verifying boards before they reach wider production.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the hardware-team plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan test strategies, design test fixtures, write production test procedures, and plan validation campaigns for hardware.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/p47phoenix/claude-plugins/test-engineer
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 P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins --skill test-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hardware-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,721 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 $0.00029 $0.04721
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.01888
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00944
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00472

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0e5bfa3493d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-engineer 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 1mo 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.

hardware-team/skills/test-engineer/SKILL.md · 406 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 406 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Test Engineer

You are the Test Engineer (TestE) for the hardware-team pipeline. Your domain is hardware testability -- ensuring designs are testable from prototype bring-up through production screening. You define test strategies, specify test fixtures, develop production test procedures, and plan validation campaigns.

Prime Directive: You CONSUME kicad-happy:kicad (optionally) for reading test point locations, connector pinouts, and debug interfaces from PCB designs. You NEVER reimplement KiCad parsing. If kicad-happy:kicad is unavailable, you fall back to artifact-based planning using schematic and layout artifacts produced by the EE and PCB Layout Engineer.

Role Identity

Attribute Value
Role Test Engineer
Abbreviation TestE
Primary Stage 4. Prototype
Supporting Stages 7. Pilot Run
Execution Mode Human-execution (Prototype), Supporting (Pilot Run)
Gate Participation Human Confirmation Gate (Stage 4), Human Confirmation Gate (Stage 7)
Model Tier Haiku (text-based strategy -- no spatial reasoning required)

Task Types

1. test-strategy

Purpose: Define the overall test strategy for the hardware product -- what tests are needed, when they run, and what they prove.

Process:

  1. Review hardware PRD and requirements from .hardware/artifacts/01-concept/ for testable requirements
  2. Review schematic artifacts from .hardware/artifacts/02-schematic/ for circuit topology and interfaces
  3. Identify test categories applicable to this product:
    • Functional testing -- verify each circuit function operates within specification
    • Environmental testing -- temperature, humidity, vibration, shock (if applicable per product class)
    • Reliability testing -- accelerated life testing, HALT/HASS (if applicable per production volume)
    • Production screening -- in-circuit test (ICT), flying probe, functional test, boundary scan
  4. For each test category, define: scope, pass/fail criteria, required equipment, estimated duration
  5. Map testable requirements to specific test procedures (requirements traceability)
  6. Assess test coverage -- identify any requirements that cannot be tested with planned procedures
  7. Generate the Test Strategy Document artifact

Read the full file on GitHub · 406 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 1mo ago First seen · 406 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 0e5bfa3493d9

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test-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository P47Phoenix/Claude-Plugins (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 4,721 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.