test-architect

test-architect is a skill for Claude Code from wyattowalsh/agents. It costs 43 tokens per session (2,413 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for designing and analysing software test suites. It explains what to test, finds untested code paths and edge cases, and helps diagnose flaky tests; flaky tests are tests that fail unpredictably.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design a test strategy, generate test cases, analyse coverage gaps, identify boundary inputs, investigate flaky tests, and review test-suite structure.
Why use it?
It helps teams find weaknesses in their testing strategy before relying on the suite to catch bugs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the agents plugin — 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to design a test strategy, generate test cases, analyse coverage gaps, identify boundary inputs, investigate flaky tests, and review test-suite structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wyattowalsh/agents/test-architect
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 wyattowalsh/agents --skill test-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wyattowalsh/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,413 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 $0.00043 $0.02413
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00965
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00483
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00241

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 89d8d5c87f8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-architect 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 11 executable files (scripts/asset_toolkit/__init__.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/_shared.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/common.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-architect/SKILL.md · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Test Architect

Design test strategies, analyze coverage gaps, identify edge cases, diagnose flaky tests, and audit test suite architecture.

Scope: Test design and analysis only. NOT for running tests or CI/CD (devops-engineer), code review (review), or TDD workflow.

Dispatch

$ARGUMENTS Action
design <feature/module> Design test strategy and pyramid for a feature or module
generate <file/function> Generate test cases (strategy text or actual test code based on context)
gaps Analyze coverage gaps from coverage reports
edge-cases <function> Systematic edge case identification for a function
flaky Diagnose flaky tests from logs and code
review Audit test suite architecture
Empty Show mode menu with examples

Canonical Vocabulary

Use these terms exactly throughout all modes:

Term Definition
test pyramid Layered test distribution: unit (base), integration (middle), e2e (top)
coverage gap Code path with no test coverage, weighted by complexity risk
edge case Input at boundary conditions, null/empty, type coercion, overflow, unicode, concurrent
flaky test Test with non-deterministic pass/fail behavior across identical runs
mutation score Percentage of injected mutations detected by the test suite
test strategy Document defining what to test, how, at what layer, with what tools
property-based test Test asserting invariants over generated inputs (Hypothesis/fast-check)
test isolation Guarantee that tests do not share mutable state or execution order dependencies
fixture Reusable test setup/teardown providing controlled state
test surface Set of public interfaces, code paths, and states requiring test coverage

Mode 1: Design

/test-architect design <feature/module>

Surface Analysis

  1. Read the feature/module code. Map the test surface: public API, internal paths, state transitions, error conditions.
  2. Classify complexity: simple (pure functions), moderate (I/O, state), complex (distributed, concurrent, multi-service).

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 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. 1mo ago First seen · 230 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 89d8d5c87f8b

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test-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository wyattowalsh/agents (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 2,413 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 2026-09-03.

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