testing-in-production

testing-in-production is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from petrkindlmann/qa-skills. It costs 125 tokens per session (4,610 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of techniques for checking software safely while a release is being rolled out to users. It covers feature flags, gradual traffic increases, canary checks, production smoke tests, and measures that can stop a rollout.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for feature-flag testing, canary or progressive deployments, dark launches, post-release smoke tests, rollout guardrails, and rollback verification.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of sending a broken change to everyone at once. Monitoring and rollback checks provide evidence that a release is safe before exposure increases.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for feature-flag testing, canary or progressive deployments, dark launches, post-release smoke tests, rollout guardrails, and rollback verification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/petrkindlmann/qa-skills/testing-in-production
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add petrkindlmann/qa-skills --skill testing-in-production
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/petrkindlmann/qa-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,610 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: 1 finding, 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 298
    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 $0.00125 $0.04610
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.02305
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00922
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00461

Measured 12d ago against content hash e173cf70cbdd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

testing-in-production 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 12d 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/testing-in-production/SKILL.md · 327 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 327 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quick Route

Situation Go to
Shipping a feature behind a flag Feature Flag Testing
Ramping traffic 1% → 100% with gates Progressive Rollout + references/rollout-policy.md
Need post-deploy checks on every release Production Smoke Tests + references/patterns.md
Deciding what numbers gate the rollout Guardrail Metrics
New code path with no user-visible change yet Dark Launches
Proving the rollback actually works Verification

Discovery Questions

Check .agents/qa-project-context.md first. If it exists, use it as context and skip questions already answered there.

Feature flag system:

  • Do you have a feature flag platform? (LaunchDarkly, Statsig — now part of OpenAI, GrowthBook, Unleash, Flagsmith, Harness FME — formerly Split, custom, none)
  • How are flags managed? (Dashboard, config file, environment variables)
  • Can flags target specific users, percentages, or segments?
  • How many active flags exist today? Is there a cleanup process?

Rollout capability:

  • Can you deploy to a subset of traffic? (Canary infrastructure, weighted routing, feature flags)
  • How long does a deployment take? How long does a rollback take?
  • Do you have blue-green or rolling deployments?
  • Can you route traffic by region, user cohort, or percentage?

Monitoring maturity:

  • What observability is in place? (APM, logging, error tracking, metrics)
  • Do you have dashboards for error rate, latency, and business metrics?
  • Are alerts configured with appropriate thresholds?
  • Can you compare metrics between canary and baseline in real time?

Read the full file on GitHub · 327 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 12d ago First seen · 327 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A e173cf70cbdd

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testing-in-production is a skill published in the GitHub repository petrkindlmann/qa-skills (120 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 4,610 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 2026-08-30.

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