flaky-test-investigation SKILL.md skillA
flaky-test-investigation from yeaight7/agent-powerups is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add yeaight7/agent-powerups/flaky-test-investigation@git:20260606.4d49a49Pins git:20260606.4d49a49 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- yeaight7/agent-powerups
- Path
plugins/debugging-diagnostics/skills/flaky-test-investigation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260606.4d49a49, committed Jun 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 2, 2026
- Size
- 2,542 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when tests pass and fail intermittently without code changes, or a test passes alone but fails in the full suite.
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
## Purpose
Flaky tests erode trust in CI. Do not just re-run them and hope for the best — isolate the flake vector, fix it, and prove the fix with a stress loop.
## When to Use
- A test fails intermittently in CI but passes locally (or vice versa)
- A test passes alone but fails in the full suite
- A re-run "fixed" a failure and nobody knows why
## Inputs
- The flaky test's name/path and the runner command for it
- Recent failing runs, if available, to estimate the failure rate
## Workflow
1. **Isolate the test.** Run the specific failing test by itself. If it passes alone, the flake is likely an **order dependency** or **state leakage** from a previous test — run the suite up to and including it to confirm.
2. **Stress test.** Run the test in a tight loop to establish the failure rate before changing anything:
```bash
for i in {1..100}; do npm test -- -t "My Test" || echo "FAIL on run $i"; done
```
(Adapt the inner command to the project's runner; some runners have repeat flags built in.)
3. **Check the common vectors:**
- **Time** — does the test rely on `Date.now()` or `setTimeout`? Mock the clock.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add yeaight7/agent-powerups/flaky-test-investigation@sha256:66adc4d3a5e1e4f7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260606.4d49a49, 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_6eb2yr4qcwmqzy7k)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between May 2, 2026 and Jun 6, 2026, about one every 17 days. Its first recorded version is graded B and its latest A.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260606.4d49a49 latest | 2026-06-06 | 4d49a49 | 2,542 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260502.145b611 | 2026-05-02 | 145b611 | 1,172 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260502.3cc4064 | 2026-05-02 | 3cc4064 | 145 B | B | view |
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 (2542 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
yeaight7/agent-powerups · 8 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-27 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6eb2yr4qcwmqzy7k GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yeaight7/agent-powerups/flaky-test-investigation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/66adc4d3a5e1e4f75b434bd106495ad3579db33b6b3d47e4d7d7daa77984832a
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