testing-guide SKILL.md skillA
testing-guide from akaszubski/autonomous-dev is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add akaszubski/autonomous-dev/testing-guide@git:20260825.3953a2ePins git:20260825.3953a2e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- akaszubski/autonomous-dev
- Path
plugins/autonomous-dev/skills/testing-guide/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260825.3953a2e, committed Aug 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 17, 2026
- Size
- 29,348 bytes
- Repository stars
- 34
- License
- none declared
GenAI-first testing with structural assertions, congruence validation, and tier-based test structure. Use when writing tests, setting up test infrastructure, or validating coverage. TRIGGER when: test, pytest, coverage, TDD, test patterns, congruence, validation. DO NOT TRIGGER when: production code implementation, documentation, config-only changes.
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
# Testing Guide
What to test, how to test it, and what NOT to test — for a plugin made of prompt files, Python glue, and configuration.
## Philosophy: GenAI-First Testing
Traditional unit tests work for deterministic logic. But most bugs in this project are **drift** — docs diverge from code, agents contradict commands, component counts go stale. GenAI congruence tests catch these. Unit tests don't.
**Decision rule**: Can you write `assert x == y` and it won't break next week? → Unit test. Otherwise → GenAI test or structural test.
---
## Three Test Patterns
### 1. Judge Pattern (single artifact evaluation)
An LLM evaluates one artifact against criteria. Use for: doc completeness, security posture, architectural intent.
```python
pytestmark = [pytest.mark.genai]
def test_agents_documented_in_claude_md(self, genai):
agents_on_disk = list_agents()
claude_md = Path("CLAUDE.md").read_text()
result = genai.judge(
question="Does CLAUDE.md document all active agents?",
context=f"Agents on disk: {agents_on_disk}\nCLAUDE.md:\n{claude_md[:3000]}",
criteria="All active agents should be referenced. Score by coverage %."
)
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add akaszubski/autonomous-dev/testing-guide@sha256:2e54cfb80ef5d886The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260825.3953a2e, 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_hoivr47s3j47cgak)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 17, 2026 and Aug 25, 2026, about one every 25 days.
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| git:20260825.3953a2e latest | 2026-08-25 | 3953a2e | 29,348 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260624.d2baf52 | 2026-06-24 | d2baf52 | 28,842 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260623.3534be0 | 2026-06-23 | 3534be0 | 26,658 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260522.909e573 | 2026-05-22 | 909e573 | 25,200 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260517.8b15628 | 2026-05-17 | 8b15628 | 23,112 B | A | 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 (29348 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
akaszubski/autonomous-dev · 34 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hoivr47s3j47cgak GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=akaszubski/autonomous-dev/testing-guide GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2e54cfb80ef5d886e27c8abfa1159fffe605cb7fef5dcdf4cc729b4b7f3ba062
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.