test-reliability

test-reliability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from petrkindlmann/qa-skills. It costs 179 tokens per session (5,340 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for diagnosing and repairing unreliable automated tests, including tests that fail intermittently for reasons unrelated to the code being tested.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate flaky tests, replace broken locators, handle slow services or temporary HTTP errors, quarantine tests, and manage reviewed auto-repairs.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish broken selectors, timing problems, bad test data, and environment failures, then records or reviews proposed repairs instead of hiding the failures.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to investigate flaky tests, replace broken locators, handle slow services or temporary HTTP errors, quarantine tests, and manage reviewed auto-repairs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/petrkindlmann/qa-skills/test-reliability
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-reliability
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 179 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,340 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 388
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 389
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 390
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00179 $0.05340
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.02670
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.01068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00534

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3e33645460ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-reliability 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 8d 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-reliability/SKILL.md · 408 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 408 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quick Route

Situation Go to
Test flakes in CI, root cause unknown Flake Classification → decision tree
Locator broke, want resilient replacement Locator Resilience
Action fails, suspect slow backend not UI bug Environment-Aware Healing
401/404/429 mid-test from stale data Data Healing
Want auto-repair with review gate Observable Repair Workflow
Isolate a flaky test without blocking CI Quarantine Management
Step-by-step triage of one flaky test references/flaky-test-runbook.md

Discovery Questions

Check .agents/qa-project-context.md first — it carries known flaky areas, selector strategy, and CI environment details. Skip any question it already answers.

  • What is your current flaky test rate? Check CI failure stats over the last 30 days. Below 2% is healthy; 2-5% needs attention; above 5% is eroding team trust.
  • Where is the pain concentrated? Locator breakage? Timing? Test data? Environment? If unknown, instrument first (see Flake Classification).
  • What is your current selector strategy? data-testid everywhere, mixed CSS and role-based, or no strategy (whatever works)? This sets the stability-score baseline.
  • How do you handle flaky tests today? Retry and hope, skip and forget, or something structured? Decides how much process you need to add.
  • What CI environment runs the tests? Same machine every time or different runners? Consistent or variable resources? Drives the environment-vs-test diagnosis.
  • What is your test data strategy? Shared database, per-test fixtures, factory seeding, or external services? Decides whether data healing applies.

Read the full file on GitHub · 408 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. 8d ago First seen · 408 lines · 179 tokens per session scan A 3e33645460ef

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test-reliability is a skill published in the GitHub repository petrkindlmann/qa-skills (113 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 179 tokens to every session and 5,340 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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