test-strategy

A testing guide for a project called Cortexloop. It examines whether tests cover important behavior, including inputs, outputs, errors, side effects, configuration branches, retries, and duplicate-request handling.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, check API and command-line contracts, test database or network boundaries, and find regression risks.
Why use it?
It helps reveal tests that look complete but miss important failures or test the wrong layer. It turns each gap into a concrete test someone can write and maintain.

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/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop/test-strategy
Any agent
npx skills add whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop --skill test-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,316 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 $0.00039 $0.01316
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00658
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00132

Measured 2d ago against content hash e0a72ae93cc8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-strategy 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.

skills/test-strategy/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Test Strategy (Deep)

Depth skill for pass 3 (tests). Pair with cortexloop-expert-core and edge-case-and-state-analysis.

Go deep on verification. Name missing behaviors, design better tests, spot weak assertions and flaky patterns. Production logic bugs → defer review; exploit paths → defer security.

Goal

Not maximum coverage percentage — confidence that important behavior will not silently regress. Every finding should name a concrete test someone could write tomorrow.

Depth checklist — what to examine

Behavior & contracts

  • Public API contracts (inputs, outputs, errors, side effects)
  • CLI flags, HTTP status codes, event payloads, schema evolution
  • Idempotency and retry semantics as tested (not just implemented)
  • Feature flags / config branches with no test matrix

Test level fit

Level Use when Red flags
Unit Pure logic, single module Mocking entire world; testing implementation details
Integration DB, FS, queue, HTTP client with real or test double None — gap if boundary untested
E2E Critical user journeys One E2E replacing 20 unit tests for pure logic

Find wrong level: brittle E2E for math; unit test that mocks the thing you're trying to verify.

Boundary & edge coverage

  • empty, zero, max, null, malformed, unicode, oversized payload
  • first item / last item / single item / duplicate items
  • clock skew, timeout, slow dependency (where tests exist)
  • permission denied vs resource missing (as test scenarios, not auth audit)

Error & failure paths

  • network/DB timeout, 500 from dependency, partial write
  • validation failure, conflict, rate limit
  • cleanup after failure (teardown, rollback) — tested?

Error handling quality (swallowed errors) → defer errorHandling. Frame here as "no test proves recovery/failure surface."

Regression & change sensitivity

  • Code changed in this PR without adjacent test update?
  • Previously fixed bug class without regression test?
  • Copy-pasted logic with tests only on one copy?

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. 2d ago First seen · 146 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A e0a72ae93cc8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

test-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop (15 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,316 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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