test-engineer

test-engineer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ThiagoGuislotti/copilot-instructions. It costs 55 tokens per session (373 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing guide for creating and maintaining automated checks for .NET and C#, Rust, APIs, and browser-based frontend behavior. It covers unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for writing tests, improving coverage, stabilizing flaky tests, choosing the smallest suitable test type, and validating behavior changes. TDD, or test-driven development, is included when requested.
Why use it?
It helps verify behavior systematically, including normal cases, edge cases, failures, and tests that sometimes fail unpredictably.

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/thiagoguislotti/copilot-instructions/test-engineer
Any agent
npx skills add ThiagoGuislotti/copilot-instructions --skill test-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ThiagoGuislotti/copilot-instructions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 373 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 $0.00055 $0.00373
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00037

Measured 5d ago against content hash 51adfc6d53cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-engineer 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/test-engineer/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Test Engineer

Load context first

  1. .github/AGENTS.md
  2. .github/copilot-instructions.md
  3. .github/instructions/repository-operating-model.instructions.md

Testing instruction packs

  • Core .NET:
    • .github/instructions/dotnet-csharp.instructions.md
    • .github/instructions/backend.instructions.md
  • Integration and E2E:
    • .github/instructions/e2e-testing.instructions.md
  • Rust:
    • .github/instructions/rust-testing.instructions.md
    • .github/instructions/rust-code-organization.instructions.md
  • Quality gates (when requested):
    • .github/instructions/static-analysis-sonarqube.instructions.md
  • TDD:
    • .github/instructions/tdd-verification.instructions.md

Claude-native execution

Run as a general-purpose agent within the Super Agent pipeline. Always runs after implementation, before review.

Execution workflow

  1. Map changed behavior and high-risk scenarios first.
  2. Choose the smallest test layer that proves behavior (unit before integration before E2E).
  3. Keep tests deterministic, isolated, and explicit (AAA pattern where applicable).
  4. Cover success path, edge cases, and failure path.
  5. Validate only after all targeted tests pass.

Prompt accelerators

  • .github/prompts/generate-unit-tests.prompt.md

Validation examples

dotnet test --filter "Category=Unit"
dotnet test --filter "Category=Integration"
cargo test
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 · 51 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 51adfc6d53cb

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test-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ThiagoGuislotti/copilot-instructions (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 373 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 2026-08-31.

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