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.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00034 | $0.02161 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00864 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00432 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00216 |
Grade A, and why
api-testing-patterns 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.
This is a copy
89% identical to api-testing-patterns — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 300 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
API Testing Patterns
<default_to_action> When testing APIs or designing API test strategy:
- IDENTIFY testing level: contract, integration, or component
- TEST the contract, not implementation (consumer perspective)
- VALIDATE auth, input, errors, idempotency, concurrency
- AUTOMATE in CI/CD with schema validation
- MONITOR production APIs for contract drift
Quick Pattern Selection:
- Microservices → Consumer-driven contracts (Pact)
- REST APIs → CRUD + pagination + filtering tests
- GraphQL → Query validation + complexity limits
- External deps → Mock with component testing
- Performance → Load test critical endpoints
Critical Success Factors:
- APIs are contracts - test from consumer perspective
- Always test error scenarios, not just happy paths
- Version your API tests to prevent breaking changes </default_to_action>
Quick Reference Card
When to Use
- Testing REST or GraphQL APIs
- Validating microservice contracts
- Designing API test strategies
- Preventing breaking API changes
Testing Levels
| Level | Purpose | Dependencies | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract | Provider-consumer agreement | None | Fast |
| Component | API in isolation | Mocked | Fast |
| Integration | Real dependencies | Database, services | Slower |
Critical Test Scenarios
| Scenario | Must Test | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Auth | 401/403 handling | Expired token, wrong user |
| Input | 400 validation | Missing fields, wrong types |
| Errors | 500 graceful handling | DB down, timeout |
| Idempotency | Duplicate prevention | Same idempotency key |
| Concurrency | Race conditions | Parallel checkout |
Tools
- Contract: Pact, Spring Cloud Contract
- REST: Supertest, REST-assured, Playwright
- Load: k6, Artillery, JMeter
Agent Coordination
qe-api-contract-validator: Validate contracts, detect breaking changesqe-test-generator: Generate tests from OpenAPI specqe-performance-tester: Load test endpointsqe-security-scanner: API security testing
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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 300 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 31b788fa5f6b
api-testing-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository summarybotng/summarybot-ng (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,161 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to api-testing-patterns, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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