holistic-testing-pact

holistic-testing-pact is a skill for Claude Code from summarybotng/summarybot-ng. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A whole-team approach to planning tests for software, including systems that use AI or agents. PACT means proactive, autonomous, collaborative, and targeted quality work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose unit, integration, performance, acceptance, exploratory, and usability tests based on risk and to build faster feedback loops.
Why use it?
Treating testing as a final quality gate can find problems late and leave responsibility unclear across the team.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to choose unit, integration, performance, acceptance, exploratory, and usability tests based on risk and to build faster feedback loops.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/summarybotng/summarybot-ng/holistic-testing-pact
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add summarybotng/summarybot-ng --skill holistic-testing-pact
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/summarybotng/summarybot-ng

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,413 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 $0.00061 $0.01413
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00707
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00283
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00141

Measured 5d ago against content hash f7683aabb826, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

holistic-testing-pact 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 5d 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.

.claude/skills/holistic-testing-pact/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Holistic Testing Model with PACT Principles

<default_to_action> When designing test strategies or building quality into teams:

  1. APPLY PACT principles: Proactive (test before bugs), Autonomous (teams own quality), Collaborative (whole-team responsibility), Targeted (risk-focused)
  2. IDENTIFY quadrant focus: Technology-facing (unit, integration, performance) or Business-facing (acceptance, exploratory, usability)
  3. SELECT agents based on PACT dimension and testing quadrant
  4. IMPLEMENT feedback loops that catch issues in minutes, not days
  5. MEASURE outcomes (bug escape rate, release confidence) not activities (test count)

Quick PACT Application:

  • Proactive → Design testability into architecture, risk analysis during refinement
  • Autonomous → Devs run tests locally, CI pipeline with no manual gates
  • Collaborative → Three Amigos, QE pairs with dev, shared test ownership
  • Targeted → Risk-based planning, focus on critical flows, kill valueless tests

Critical Success Factors:

  • Quality is a whole-team responsibility, not a QA phase
  • QA as enablers (build infrastructure, coach), not gatekeepers
  • Fast feedback during development, not after </default_to_action>

Quick Reference Card

When to Use

  • Designing comprehensive test strategies
  • Building quality culture in teams
  • Choosing testing approach for new projects
  • Evolving from sequential QA to concurrent quality

PACT Principles

Principle Focus Anti-Pattern
Proactive Test before code, design testability Waiting for bugs to find you
Autonomous Teams deploy when ready QA as manual gatekeepers
Collaborative Whole-team quality thinking QA works in isolation
Targeted Risk-based, high-value tests Exhaustive checkbox testing

Holistic Testing Quadrants

Quadrant Purpose Examples
Tech + Support Fast feedback Unit, component, integration tests
Tech + Critique Find limits Performance, security, chaos
Business + Support Shared understanding BDD, acceptance tests
Business + Critique Discover unknowns Exploratory, usability, A/B

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 175 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A f7683aabb826

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holistic-testing-pact is a skill published in the GitHub repository summarybotng/summarybot-ng (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,413 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.