exploratory-testing

exploratory-testing is a skill for Claude Code from wahidyankf/ose-public. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,314 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to testing a running user interface or API by exploring it with planned missions rather than following only fixed test scripts. It explains how to compare observed behaviour with a specification or design and record defects safely.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan exploration of journeys such as checkout, vary inputs and paths, review usability, and document evidence for unexpected results.
Why use it?
It helps find problems that scripted checks may miss while keeping the exploration focused and non-destructive. It also helps distinguish a real defect from missing or unclear requirements.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to plan exploration of journeys such as checkout, vary inputs and paths, review usability, and document evidence for unexpected results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wahidyankf/ose-public/exploratory-testing
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.

Any agent
npx skills add wahidyankf/ose-public --skill exploratory-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wahidyankf/ose-public

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,314 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 $0.00051 $0.01314
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00526
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00131

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5ae777f3775e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exploratory-testing 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/exploratory-testing/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Exploratory Testing

Exploratory and Usability Review owns the sequence: declared tasks, one bounded pass, and a terminal result. Enumerated Coverage and Usability Probes and Completeness own the sweeps that enumerate instead of sampling; Evidence Safety and Accessibility owns what a capture may hold; and API Testing owns the direct request an API change needs. This skill covers the tester's judgement inside that pass.

Frame Each Charter as a Mission

A charter names what to explore, with which resources or constraints, and what kind of information or risk it should reveal. For example: explore the discount field on checkout, with expired, stacked, and malformed codes, to reveal pricing and validation defects.

A charter as broad as "explore checkout" finds whatever lies on top. One that lists clicks is a script and cannot discover that a path was impossible to find. The workflow's declared tasks are these charters, frozen before the pass starts. Anything found outside a charter is still recorded, marked as outside it.

Vary the Angle With Tours

Tour Tends to find
the primary journeys, in varied order defects in the flows people depend on
a record's lifecycle: create, change, store, show, remove values altered or lost between steps
hostile input: invalid, boundary, oversized, out of order validation and error-handling defects
one action repeated, quickly and many times state and timing defects
the least-used settings and corners paths nobody tested
the same view across viewport, locale, and theme text and layout defects under change

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 88 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 5ae777f3775e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

exploratory-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository wahidyankf/ose-public (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,314 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-14.