create-test

create-test is a skill for Claude Code from reidemeister94/development-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (673 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing guide for defining and implementing regression tests. Regression tests check that existing behaviour still works after code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan test strategies, write black-box or integration tests, define measurable pass conditions, and cover failures such as timeouts, retries, permissions, and partial failures.
Why use it?
It focuses tests on user-visible rules and outcomes instead of relying only on code coverage or internal details.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the development-skills plugin — 22 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan test strategies, write black-box or integration tests, define measurable pass conditions, and cover failures such as timeouts, retries, permissions, and partial failures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/create-test
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 reidemeister94/development-skills --skill create-test
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reidemeister94/development-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install development-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks.

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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 673 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 $0.00673
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00269
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00067

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 76cb7a968848, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-test 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.

skills/create-test/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create test

Start with the user need or business rule that must always hold, not files, coverage, or internal calls. Inspect for facts; ask only for business decisions that cannot be discovered.

Define the regression contract

Establish:

  • actors, goals, and externally observable outcomes;
  • business rules and invariants that must never change;
  • critical paths and relevant rejection, timeout, retry, permission, concurrency, and partial-failure cases;
  • the current baseline and every intended behavior change;
  • KPIs with window, data set, acceptable variance, and justified pass or fail threshold;
  • systems crossed, production-like data needs, and evidence the available environment can provide.

Never invent a metric or threshold; record the gap. Match the proof's inputs and environment to the context it claims to model. A subprocess that represents normal runtime must not inherit test-only environment variables.

Choose the proof

Prefer the highest reliable boundary:

  1. black-box tests through the public API, UI, job, event, or CLI;
  2. deep integration with the real database, queue, connector, or protocol;
  3. contract, replay, property, or characterization tests for narrower risks;
  4. unit tests for isolated rules where a wider test adds no confidence.

Mock only beyond the verified boundary. For database or migration work, read integration patterns. When proving a process manager, worker, container entrypoint, or deployed artifact, use the real container or operating-system image. Verify worker replacement, signal handling, and graceful shutdown only when those boundaries apply.

For strategy or audit only, return the contract, prioritized scenarios, proof method, and blind spots. Judge tests by failures caught, not assertion or coverage counts. Ask which states the proof covers and whether it includes the most fragile states.

Prove a refactor differently

A refactor keeps behavior. Capture a characterization baseline and observe it green on the unchanged code and after the refactor. Never break working behavior to watch a refactor test fail. If the baseline cannot run, name what is missing instead of lowering the proof standard.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 1mo ago Changed · +23 lines 76cb7a968848
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 45 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 9086b09d490f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository reidemeister94/development-skills (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 673 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 2026-08-30.

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