test-planning

test-planning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from petrkindlmann/qa-skills. It costs 135 tokens per session (3,733 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for planning tests for one sprint or software release. It breaks features into test scenarios, maps requirements to tests, estimates effort, and prioritizes work by risk and effort.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a sprint or release test plan, allocate testing work, prioritize test types, or track results during the testing period.
Why use it?
It makes testing scope and scheduling explicit, especially when time or people are limited. It also helps decide what to defer when the planned work exceeds capacity.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to create a sprint or release test plan, allocate testing work, prioritize test types, or track results during the testing period.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/petrkindlmann/qa-skills/test-planning
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 petrkindlmann/qa-skills --skill test-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/petrkindlmann/qa-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 135 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,733 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 11 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 11 May 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00135 $0.03733
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01867
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00747
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00373

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6b1290c5e605, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-planning 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 10d 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/test-planning/SKILL.md · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quick Route

Situation Go to
Plan a single sprint Steps 1-6 below, then the 1-page sprint template in references/plan-documents.md
Plan a release Release template in references/plan-documents.md; the go/no-go decision itself belongs to release-readiness
Track an in-flight plan / feed results back references/tracking-formats.md (daily status + retrospective)
Decide what to cut when over capacity Step 4 prioritization matrix

Discovery Questions

Before writing a test plan, gather context. Check .agents/qa-project-context.md first -- if it exists, use it as the foundation and skip questions already answered there.

Scope

  • What is the scope? (single sprint, release, hotfix, feature)
  • Which features are new vs. changed vs. unchanged?
  • Which features are being released for the first time?
  • Are there infrastructure or dependency changes (database migrations, API version bumps, third-party provider switches)?
  • Is there a requirements document, PRD, or set of user stories to map against?

Time and Resources

  • What is the testing window? (days, hours available)
  • Who is available for testing? (SDETs, manual testers, developers)
  • Are there shared resources that could bottleneck? (staging environments, test accounts, devices)
  • Is there a hard deadline that cannot move, or is the release date flexible?

Risk Context

  • Which areas changed the most in this cycle?
  • What broke in the last release or sprint?
  • Are there known fragile areas or tech debt that increase risk?
  • For risk-based prioritization methodology, see risk-based-testing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 10d ago First seen · 267 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A 6b1290c5e605

Subscribe to this mod's changes

test-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository petrkindlmann/qa-skills (117 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 135 tokens to every session and 3,733 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.

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