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Add executable smoke tests for shell scripts and CLIs before refactors ship skillA

Add executable smoke tests for shell scripts and CLIs before refactors ship is agent-read markdown (skill) from agentskillexchange/skills: Use Bats-core when an agent needs to turn fragile shell scripts or command-line workflows into something it can verify repeatedly after edits. The agent writes focused Bash tests for success paths, failure paths, and output contracts, then runs them locally or in CI before a refactor, release, or incident fix goes out..

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 agentskillexchange/skills/Add executable smoke tests for shell scripts and CLIs before refactors ship@git:20260710.62afd0f
Exact content
mdr add agentskillexchange/skills/Add executable smoke tests for shell scripts and CLIs before refactors ship@sha256:f057913490dafd77

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

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git:20260710.62afd0f latest2026-07-10 62afd0f 1,692 BA view · diff
git:20260710.29255102026-07-10 2925510 1,993 BB view · diff
git:20260518.feaca2f2026-05-18 feaca2f 2,074 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 (1692 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

agentskillexchange/skills · 40 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-17 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kx2nlh53uuloq322
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=agentskillexchange/skills/Add executable smoke tests for shell scripts and CLIs before refactors ship
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f057913490dafd773fcf49503863048c002328fd34cdbec5f8387566d7d3a098

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