testing

A test-writing skill for natural-language files such as agents, skills, commands, rules, hooks, and prompts. It uses written expectations and a repeatable red-to-green workflow to check those files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write test specifications, run `/nlpm:test`, and set up test-driven development (TDD), where tests are written before the implementation, for coding-agent artifacts.
Why use it?
It helps catch unclear or incomplete instructions before they are used. You can check both whether the artifact meets its expectations and how well it is written.

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/xiaolai/nlpm/testing
Any agent
npx skills add xiaolai/nlpm --skill testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaolai/nlpm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 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. 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 $0.00037 $0.01314
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00657
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00131

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5db5c7f95239, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

codex/skills/testing/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The NL-TDD Cycle

1. Write spec (.nlpm-test/artifact-name.spec.md)     — define expectations
2. /nlpm:test                                         — RED: spec fails (artifact doesn't exist)
3. Write the artifact                                 — create the NL artifact
4. /nlpm:test                                         — check if it passes
5. /nlpm:score                                        — check quality score
6. Iterate until GREEN: all specs pass + score ≥ threshold

Spec File Format

Location: .nlpm-test/ directory in the project root (or alongside the artifact).

Filename convention: <artifact-name>.spec.md — matches the artifact filename without path.

---
artifact: agents/my-agent.md          # path to the artifact being tested
type: agent                           # agent | skill | command | rule | hook | prompt
min_score: 85                         # minimum /nlpm:score threshold for this artifact
---

Body sections (all optional — include what matters for this artifact):

triggers_on (skills and agents)

## Triggers On

Queries that SHOULD trigger this artifact:

- "review my database migrations before deploying"
- "check if these schema changes are safe"
- "audit the migration for breaking changes"

does_not_trigger_on (skills and agents)

## Does Not Trigger On

Queries that should NOT trigger this artifact:

- "write a migration for adding a users table"
- "help me with CSS styling"
- "deploy to production"

output_contains (agents and commands)

## Output Contains

Expected elements in the output:

- "## Migration Review" (heading present)
- "| Table | Change | Risk |" (table structure)
- severity classification (CRITICAL/HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW)

output_format (agents and commands)

## Output Format

The output should be a markdown report with:
1. Summary section with counts
2. Findings table with columns: File, Finding, Severity
3. Action items list

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 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 · 171 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 5db5c7f95239

Subscribe to this mod's changes

testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository xiaolai/nlpm (133 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed ISC. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,314 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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