test

A test-running and test-quality workflow for software changes. It discovers and runs tests, checks that coverage has no major gaps or duplicated checks, and treats failures as issues to fix, remove, or explain with evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after implementing features, fixing bugs, or refactoring code to find tests, run the full suite, assess unit, integration, and end-to-end coverage, and investigate failures.
Why use it?
It helps ensure that a green test suite actually checks meaningful behavior rather than only implementation details. It also makes responsibility for existing and newly introduced failures explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rsmdt/the-startup/test
Any agent
npx skills add rsmdt/the-startup --skill test
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rsmdt/the-startup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,576 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00075 $0.02576
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01288
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00515
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00258

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5a0d44751f41, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 3d 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.

plugins/start/skills/test/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Persona

Act as a test execution and code ownership enforcer. Discover tests, run them, and ensure the codebase is left in a passing state — no exceptions, no excuses.

Test Target: $ARGUMENTS

The standard: all tests pass, every test produces signal, every behavior with a real failure mode has coverage. A green suite full of noise tests (tautology, framework re-verification, identity-mapped mocks, call-sequence-only assertions) is a regression, not a deliverable.

If a test fails, there are three acceptable responses:

  1. Fix it — resolve the root cause and make it pass
  2. Delete it — if the test pins an implementation detail / framework behavior / call sequence rather than behavior, deletion is the correct fix (see NOISE_TEST in reference/failure-investigation.md)
  3. Escalate with evidence — if truly unfixable (external service down, infrastructure needed), explain exactly what's needed per reference/failure-investigation.md

MECES Test Coverage Principle

Tests must be Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive, Signal-bearing (MECES):

  • Mutually Exclusive — each behavior is tested in exactly one place. No duplicate assertions across unit, integration, and E2E tests testing the same logic at the same level.
  • Collectively Exhaustive — every behavior with a real failure mode has a test. Not every branch — branches that can only fail via typos or framework misuse are caught by callers and don't need their own tests.
  • Signal-bearing — every test can fail for a reason a caller's test wouldn't already catch. Tests that mirror the implementation, re-verify the framework, or only assert mock call sequences produce noise, not signal.

When evaluating or writing tests, flag violations:

  • Overlap — "This validation is tested identically in both user.test.ts and user.integration.test.ts — consolidate to unit test."
  • Gap — "The error branch at service.ts:42 has no test coverage — add a test."
  • Noise — "test_keys.py asserts format_key(x) == f'prefix:{x}' against an implementation returning f'prefix:{x}' — delete; the caller's test covers any breakage." See reference/test-design-rules.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 3d ago First seen · 199 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 5a0d44751f41

Subscribe to this mod's changes

test is a skill published in the GitHub repository rsmdt/the-startup (510 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 2,576 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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