improving-test-suites SKILL.md skillA
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improving-test-suites from b-mendoza/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add b-mendoza/agent-skills/improving-test-suites@git:20261014.68ae5f8Pins git:20261014.68ae5f8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- b-mendoza/agent-skills
- Path
.agents/skills/improving-test-suites/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261014.68ae5f8, committed Oct 14, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 28, 2026
- Size
- 10,326 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- none declared
Improve existing test suites into minimal, high-signal behavior-focused harnesses with approval-before-mutation, conformance checks, guarded validation, bounded repair, and auditable handoff statuses. Use when asked to improve, trim, rewrite, delete, review, or harden tests around public contracts, business logic, schemas, security behavior, failures, edge cases, readability, or maintainability.
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
# Improving Test Suites Portable orchestrator that turns a named test suite into the smallest useful behavior-focused harness. Tests are executable contracts: a test earns its place when it would fail for a real break in public behavior, validation, security, meaningful failure handling, or a production-relevant edge case. The orchestrator serves confidence and safety, not test count. It delegates raw work to subagents, keeps compact reports, gates destructive changes, verifies approved behavior coverage survived, and returns exactly one handoff status. Portable target: OpenCode and Claude Code. Plain Markdown links and minimal frontmatter only. If the runtime cannot spawn subagents, execute each named definition inline as a strictly scoped pass, then retain only its report. ## Inputs | Input | Required | Example | | ------------------- | ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | | `TARGET_TEST_FILES` | Yes | `tests/test_billing.py`, `tests/api/` | | `USER_GOAL` | No | `reduce brittle implementation-coupled tests` | …
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How to install
mdr add b-mendoza/agent-skills/improving-test-suites@sha256:9b9bba9261ffe0a7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.68ae5f8, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 28, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 19 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261014.68ae5f8 latest | 2026-10-14 | 68ae5f8 | 10,326 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.83f4f64 | 2026-10-14 | 83f4f64 | 8,382 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261014.cfd914c | 2026-10-14 | cfd914c | 8,407 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260806.30fa598 | 2026-08-06 | 30fa598 | 8,453 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.b4db084 | 2026-07-28 | b4db084 | 8,579 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 (10326 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
b-mendoza/agent-skills · 3 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tzvcrvtuuvu2iozs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=b-mendoza/agent-skills/improving-test-suites GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9b9bba9261ffe0a7bed566f4d75fe8817a7c84122959996908b0b634850054dd
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