vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/running-claude-smoke-tests/SKILL.md

running-claude-smoke-tests is a skill for Claude Code from swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw. It costs 76 tokens per session (3,274 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for running smoke tests with Claude Code, a command-line coding assistant, while checking that the expected skills and plugin files are being used.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate local plugin behavior, inspect visible skill loading, and confirm test provenance and planning logs.
Why use it?
It helps verify the add-on in a disposable consumer project without confusing the test with the add-on’s own source folder.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

This is swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is bash scripts/resolve-debug-target.sh repo.

Part of the vbw plugin — 11 skills, 26 commands, 7 agents, 11 hooks shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw/main/.claude/skills/running-claude-smoke-tests/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vbw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 26 commands, 7 agents, 11 hooks.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,274 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 $0.00076 $0.03274
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.01637
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00655
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00327

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3f5a99a4ae01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

running-claude-smoke-tests 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/running-claude-smoke-tests/SKILL.md · 265 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 265 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Running Claude Code smoke tests

Use this skill when validating VBW behavior with plain Claude Code so future issue-fix runs do not have to rediscover the local CLI entrypoint, the consumer repo path, or the provenance checks. This is the plain-Claude counterpart to the CCR smoke-test workflow: keep the worktree and provenance rules the same, but replace ccr code with claude.

Core rule

  • Do not run the smoke test with the VBW plugin repo or plugin worktree as the working directory.
  • Do not run the smoke test directly in the base consumer repo checkout.
  • Create or reuse a disposable consumer smoke worktree and run claude there, or use a sandbox repo when the real consumer repo cannot exercise the flow.
  • Use the candidate VBW checkout only as --plugin-dir.
  • If the smoke needs installed skill fixtures, seed them only under the consumer repo's .claude/skills/<skill>/ tree or the global Claude config skills/ directory after sourcing scripts/resolve-claude-dir.sh and using ${CLAUDE_DIR}. Do not use .agents/ or .pi/ as positive fixtures.
  • When documenting results, say: "smoke-tested from a consumer smoke worktree or sandbox while loading the candidate plugin checkout via --plugin-dir".
  • If the transcript path encodes the plugin repo or the base consumer repo checkout instead of the consumer smoke worktree or sandbox, treat the smoke result as suspect until proven otherwise.

Expected inputs

  • Candidate plugin checkout path, usually the current VBW worktree under test.
  • Preferred consumer repo path, resolved from the VBW checkout with:
    • bash scripts/resolve-debug-target.sh repo
  • Smoke worktree label such as smoke-fix-issue-502 or smoke-skill-audit.
  • Optional sandbox path such as /tmp/vbw-skill-smoke-<issue> for phase-routed flows the real consumer repo cannot exercise.

Location roles

Keep these four locations distinct throughout the run:

  • Candidate plugin checkout — the VBW repo checkout under test. Pass this path only through --plugin-dir.
  • Consumer repo — the real target repo used to resolve the testing target and create or remove the smoke worktree. Do not run claude from this checkout.
  • Consumer smoke worktree — the disposable worktree created from the consumer repo. This is the real cwd for consumer-repo smoke tests.
  • Sandbox repo — a temporary repo used only when the consumer repo cannot exercise the required phase-routed flow.

Read the full file on GitHub · 265 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. 12d ago First seen · 265 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 3f5a99a4ae01

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running-claude-smoke-tests is a skill published in the GitHub repository swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw (79 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 3,274 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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