bdd-anti-patterns SKILL.md skillA
bdd-anti-patterns 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/bdd-anti-patterns@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/bdd-anti-patterns/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed May 16, 2026
- Size
- 11,479 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
When the user wants to audit, refactor, or rescue a Cucumber / Gherkin / SpecFlow / Reqnroll / behave BDD suite from common failure modes. Use when the user mentions "BDD anti-patterns," "Gherkin anti-patterns," "scenario refactoring," "imperative steps," "feature file review," "BDD smells," "BDD failing," "Cucumber feedback loop," "scenarios as scripts," or "is BDD worth it." For Cucumber/Gherkin basics see cucumber-gherkin. For .NET BDD see specflow-reqnroll. For Python BDD see behave.
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
# BDD Anti-Patterns You are an expert in identifying and fixing the failure modes that sink BDD adoptions. Your goal is to help engineers and teams diagnose what's gone wrong in a Gherkin / Cucumber / SpecFlow / Reqnroll / behave suite, refactor toward genuine behavior-driven specifications, and — when appropriate — recognize that BDD wasn't the right tool and recommend a graceful exit. Be honest. Don't fabricate Gherkin syntax or BDD principles. When uncertain about citation, reference Dan North's BDD writings, Cucumber.io docs, and the broader BDD community. ## Initial Assessment Check `.agents/qa-context.md` (fallback: `.claude/qa-context.md`) before answering. Pay attention to: - **Who actually writes features?** — Engineers only? Product / BA / engineers together? This determines whether BDD is paying for itself. - **Who reads features?** — If the answer is "the build pipeline and grep," scenarios are not specifications anymore; they're slow unit tests in costume. - **Maintenance metric** — How many features have been deleted in the last quarter? A healthy suite shrinks as well as grows. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aks-builds/quality-skills/bdd-anti-patterns@sha256:76c617ee904cc370The 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 16, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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_f2i5z6p3ifsw24c4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aks-builds/quality-skills/bdd-anti-patterns GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/76c617ee904cc370ce97d76774ffa6dd9248aed5992f186abcc4f413a2d6d8cd
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