test-gap-review

test-gap-review is a skill for Claude Code from yarlson/yarstack. It costs 32 tokens per session (419 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of whether existing tests and other checks truly prove a specific software behavior. It examines normal cases, boundaries, failures, state preservation, cleanup, and outside effects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during validation to find gaps in coverage and define the smallest additional check that would prove an important claim. It also reviews test structure, reproducibility, and risks such as concurrency, restart, and recovery.
Why use it?
It identifies false confidence from weak assertions, incomplete coverage, unsuitable fixtures, or unsupported manual claims. This shows what evidence is still missing without silently changing the tests or code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the yarstack plugin — 46 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it during validation to find gaps in coverage and define the smallest additional check that would prove an important claim. It also reviews test structure, reproducibility, and risks such as concurrency, restart, and recovery.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yarlson/yarstack/test-gap-review
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 yarlson/yarstack --skill test-gap-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yarlson/yarstack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install yarstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 419 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 $0.00032 $0.00419
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00168
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 3d ago against content hash 661aee75563d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-gap-review 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 3d 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.

plugins/yarstack/skills/test-gap-review/SKILL.md · 32 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 32 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Test Gap Review

Audit verification sufficiency without silently becoming a test-writing or production implementation workflow.

Workflow

  1. Establish the authoritative behavioral contract, comparison scope, and claimed verification.
  2. Map invariants, assumptions, normal behavior, important boundaries, meaningful failures, preserved state, cleanup, and external effects to existing evidence.
  3. Identify weak assertions, fixtures that cannot fail meaningfully, implementation-detail tests, expected values derived from the code under test, mocks of code the system owns, coverage numbers cited as proof, unsupported manual claims, and skipped required commands. Flag example-only evidence when the claim spans a broad input space, operation sequence, concurrent ordering, restart, or recovery, and check that generated failures are reproducible.
  4. For each high-risk claim, ask whether its test would fail if the behavior broke. Reason through a likely mutation, such as a flipped condition, a removed call, or an off-by-one bound. Run a temporary mutation only in a scratch copy, never in the user's working tree.
  5. Review changed test code as maintained product code. Flag unclear naming or structure, repeated setup that should use a focused helper, helpers that hide scenario data or mix responsibilities, and table-driven cases that do not share one execution path.
  6. Report each material gap with the affected claim, missing evidence, consequence, smallest proving check, and residual risk.
  7. If remediation is authorized, use test-design for test changes and behavior-implement for production behavior; otherwise remain read-only.

For each material claim report:

VERIFIED | NOT VERIFIED | INCONCLUSIVE
Claim: ...
Evidence: ...
Why: ...

Do not chase coverage percentages, demand a stronger method without a concrete risk, add fake-confidence tests, broaden infrastructure, or change production behavior directly.

Finish when material claims have supported statuses and remaining verification risk is explicit.

Read the full file on GitHub · 32 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. 3d ago Changed · +1 lines 661aee75563d
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 31 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 9aed6af3ce97

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test-gap-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository yarlson/yarstack (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 419 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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