test-value SKILL.md skillA

test-value from tt-a1i/archify is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add tt-a1i/archify/test-value@git:20261009.7ef7c0c

Pins git:20261009.7ef7c0c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
tt-a1i/archify
Path
.agents/skills/test-value/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261009.7ef7c0c, committed Oct 9, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 9, 2026
Size
9,584 bytes
Repository stars
85,866
License
MIT

Improve test value and feedback cost when auditing slow, flaky, redundant or brittle tests; choosing tests during implementation; or reviewing test changes before a commit or PR. Keep ordinary implementation and pre-commit use scoped to the affected behavior, not a repository-wide audit.

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

# Test Value

Protect outcomes worth preserving at a cost proportionate to their risk. Test counts, coverage percentages and green runs are evidence, not substitutes for product judgment. When an AI writes both implementation and tests, check whether they share the same mistaken assumption.

## Choose the scope

Preserve the user's existing authorization and operational boundaries.

- **Audit existing tests:** investigate cost, false alarms and protection within the requested scope. An audit request is read-only; an optimization request permits scoped changes. Read [audit.md](references/audit.md).
- **Implementation or pre-commit review:** examine the behavior being changed and its affected tests. Decide whether to add, adapt, reuse or remove tests. Reviewing before a commit does not itself authorize committing or pushing.
- **Diagnose a failure:** identify the outcome the failing check protects, then distinguish a product regression, obsolete assertion, environment failure or unstable test. Keep a narrowly requested fix narrow.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add tt-a1i/archify/test-value@sha256:a47f7d9c739c726f

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261009.7ef7c0c, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_5b3e5ug7vunkaanb.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_5b3e5ug7vunkaanb)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 9, 2026.

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git:20261009.7ef7c0c latest2026-10-09 7ef7c0c 9,584 BA view · diff
git:20261009.d254f2d2026-10-09 d254f2d 9,557 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9584 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

GitHub

tt-a1i/archify · 85,866 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5b3e5ug7vunkaanb
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tt-a1i/archify/test-value
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a47f7d9c739c726f16a59e669e384869b6ea6f2a0c47b49c6614e50539969c7b

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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