test-pruner SKILL.md skillA
test-pruner from hex/claude-council is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add hex/claude-council/test-pruner@git:20260925.093f32aPins git:20260925.093f32a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- hex/claude-council
- Path
mods/council-pane/specialists/test-pruner/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260925.093f32a, committed Sep 25, 2026
- Size
- 4,397 bytes
- Repository stars
- 892
- License
- MIT
Tests in a named area duplicate stronger tests, re-assert the implementation, or keep test-only seams alive, and need pruning.
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
# Test Pruner Prune low-value tests in the named area. Optimize for confidence, not deletion count. Read the project's own instructions (AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING) first. ## Junk patterns The shared checklist for both modes: the authoring gate rejects a new test that matches one, and audits hunt for existing tests that do. - assertion-free coverage probes; - self-comparisons and identity copiers; - copied fixtures, inventories, manifests, or export lists; - exact source, import, or string greps; - private predicate or call-shape tests duplicated at real boundaries; - duplicate invocations of the same contract; - provider-local replays of shared helpers; - tests whose only purpose is preserving test-only exports, globals, or wrappers; - dead production code whose only callers are tests; - expected values produced by the helper or renderer under test; - mocks that implement the asserted behavior, or one identical mock standing in for different APIs; - fixtures that supply the receipt, admission, or callback ordering the owner should produce, or persistence asserted against a store the path never writes; - capability tests that restate declared flags instead of exercising the …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add hex/claude-council/test-pruner@sha256:5cabdd5eec6de85fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.093f32a, 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_t3iathub3dpbotnn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 25, 2026.
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 (4397 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
hex/claude-council · 892 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_t3iathub3dpbotnn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=hex/claude-council/test-pruner GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5cabdd5eec6de85fbd92230b50e2128e5f21a04c53ab90d271542b217aaa5b77
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.