dotnet/skills · plugins/dotnet-test/skills/test-anti-patterns/SKILL.md

test-anti-patterns skillA

test-anti-patterns is agent-read markdown (skill) from dotnet/skills: Audit a test file or suite; produce a severity-ranked diagnostic report. ALWAYS USE for tests that verify nothing, missing/tautological assertions, swallowed/broad exceptions, flaky/order-dependent tests, duplication, or magic values. Polyglot. DO NOT USE for direct edits: writing-mstest-tests owns supplied MSTest assertions/attributes/lifecycle; code-testing-agent owns new tests. Exclude running tests, migration, assertion metrics (assertion-quality), raw .NET coverage collection (run-tests), n.

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add dotnet/skills/test-anti-patterns@git:20260908.e8ed847
Exact content
mdr add dotnet/skills/test-anti-patterns@sha256:9f948b9df0c704c9

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260908.e8ed847 latest2026-09-08 e8ed847 26,283 BA view · diff
git:20260904.ac8f4122026-09-04 ac8f412 25,942 BA view · diff
git:20260903.30b30ef2026-09-03 30b30ef 24,834 BA view · diff
git:20260902.00b3bac2026-09-02 00b3bac 23,991 BA view · diff
git:20260828.2b9056b2026-08-28 2b9056b 23,390 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (26283 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

dotnet/skills · 5,437 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-17 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_755zaqkf226g562i
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dotnet/skills/test-anti-patterns
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9f948b9df0c704c9c5aaf3aabf56104f0ce2116be35b9be541b4a4edf4b1ea55

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