kitaru: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/kitaru-tests-release/SKILL.md

kitaru-tests-release is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zenml-io/kitaru. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,391 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project-specific guide to testing, continuous integration, and release work for Kitaru, including unit, contract, command-line, and regression tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or debugging tests, checking command-line behavior, testing schemas and scaffolding, or changing CI and release processes.
Why use it?
It helps keep tests focused and repeatable while avoiding outdated fixtures, unnecessary runtime setup, working-directory assumptions, and unstable timing checks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

This is zenml-io/kitaru's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on kitaru itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kitaru configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to zenml-io/kitaru. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zenml-io/kitaru/develop/.agents/skills/kitaru-tests-release/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zenml-io/kitaru

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,391 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Memory Poisoning · line 120
    Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.
    Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 102
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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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 $0.00054 $0.02391
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00956
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00478
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00239

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ab671e55d3e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kitaru-tests-release 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.

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/kitaru-tests-release/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kitaru Tests, CI, and Release Workflow

Use this when adding, moving, or debugging tests beyond the basic commands and safety rules in tests/AGENTS.md, or when changing CI/release behavior.

Unit and Contract Tests

  • Build small typed stubs or SimpleNamespace objects instead of booting unrelated runtime state.
  • Assert one behavior or contract at a time.
  • Include regression coverage for bug fixes.
  • Keep tests independent of working-directory state unless the test creates that state explicitly.
  • Avoid shared mutable module-level state and wall-clock ordering assumptions.

V2 has no primed_zenml fixture or test_phase* example suite. Do not copy those v1 patterns into new tests.

CLI Tests

  • Install the surface with uv sync --extra cli --extra worker.
  • Call src/kitaru/cli/app.py::main with an explicit argument list.
  • Assert the returned integer exit code, such as main(["--help"]) == 0; successful calls do not raise SystemExit(0).
  • Use capsys and assert stable structured or plain-text contracts.
  • Prefer lightweight stubs for remote resources instead of starting the full server.
  • Exercise offline help, version, schema, and scaffold commands without reading local configuration.
  • Run just cli-artifact-smoke after optional-dependency, entrypoint, or packaging changes.

Keep CLI tests focused on argument parsing, command dispatch, output contracts, and the specific resource interaction under test.

Server and SDK Tests

Follow the four server-resource surfaces in tests/AGENTS.md: service tests, ASGI REST tests, shared repository contracts, and PostgreSQL end-to-end tests. Add SDK round-trip coverage under tests/client/ when a public resource changes.

Use the PostgreSQL-backed tests for transaction, locking, migration, or cross-request behavior that an in-memory fake cannot prove. Run docker compose up -d db before those tests and just migration-check after schema changes.

Task and Worker Tests

  • Task subprocess contracts live under tests/task/.
  • Worker lifecycle and handler contracts live under tests/worker/.
  • Keep subprocess tests bounded and assert structured receipts, exit behavior, and redaction.
  • Use the existing worker fakes rather than starting unrelated services.
  • When changing dynamic task dependencies or adding a first-party Python distribution, compare the worker's package-age allowlist with every PyPI unit in release/release-units.toml, including non-default packages. Exercise an exact pin under an older exclude-newer cutoff with a candidate or published wheel, and cover the fallback when the installed uv lacks --exclude-newer-package.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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 Changed · +1 lines ab671e55d3e7
  2. 1mo ago Changed 491a6a2ccf7e
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -2 lines · +37 tokens per session 574a1f942125
  4. 2mo ago Changed 47b7441212f6
  5. 2mo ago First seen · 134 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A f5e8594e2db4

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kitaru-tests-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository zenml-io/kitaru (317 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,391 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 2026-08-30.

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