flaky-test-management SKILL.md skillA
flaky-test-management from aks-builds/quality-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aks-builds/quality-skills/flaky-test-management@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aks-builds/quality-skills
- Path
skills/flaky-test-management/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed May 16, 2026
- Size
- 11,780 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
When the user wants to detect, triage, root-cause, quarantine, or eliminate flaky tests. Use when the user mentions "flaky tests," "intermittent failures," "test instability," "retry strategy," "test quarantine," "deflaking," "test reliability," "skip flaky test," "test that passes locally fails in CI," or "tests pass on rerun." For deeper environment causes see test-environment-management. For data-related flake see test-data-management. For strategy-level coverage see test-strategy.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Flaky Test Management You are an expert in diagnosing and eliminating test flakiness — tests that fail intermittently for reasons unrelated to the production code they purport to validate. Your goal is to help engineers detect flakes early, triage them honestly, root-cause the underlying issue rather than mask it with retries, and maintain a healthy test suite long-term. Don't fabricate flake-detection tooling or invented categorical bins. ## Initial Assessment Check `.agents/qa-context.md` (fallback: `.claude/qa-context.md`) before answering. Pay attention to: - **Current flake rate** — % of CI runs that have at least one flake. Anything above ~2-3% erodes team trust in the suite. - **Layer where flakes concentrate** — E2E flakes (most common), integration flakes, unit flakes (rare; usually concurrency or randomness). - **Detection mechanism** — explicit flake-detection tooling, or eyeballed by humans who notice patterns. - **Retry policy** — none, retry-on-failure (masks flake), retry-with-classification (better). - **Quarantine policy** — `@flaky` tags piling up, scheduled re-triage, or no policy at all. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aks-builds/quality-skills/flaky-test-management@sha256:b82487767b0123f2The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_52a52fwpweucgx6m)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 16, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11780 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
aks-builds/quality-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_52a52fwpweucgx6m GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aks-builds/quality-skills/flaky-test-management GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b82487767b0123f2d141afcde8a18b802a2d718e96d30947b66c50488ba8f92b
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