dotnet/skills · plugins/dotnet-test/skills/test-smell-detection/SKILL.md

test-smell-detection skillA

test-smell-detection is agent-read markdown (skill) from dotnet/skills: Audits existing tests in any language using formal, research-backed test smell names and the testsmells.org 19-smell academic taxonomy. Use when the caller asks for an academic or citable test-smell review, named smell categories, or a formal severity-ranked smell assessment. Covers Assertion Roulette, Conditional Test Logic, Mystery Guest, Eager Test, Sleepy Test, Unknown Test, Sensitive Equality, and the rest of the catalog across .NET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Go, Ruby, Rust, Swif.

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 dotnet/skills/test-smell-detection@git:20260902.00b3bac
Exact content
mdr add dotnet/skills/test-smell-detection@sha256:4aa11579a99181fc

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

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260902.00b3bac latest2026-09-02 00b3bac 9,904 BA view · diff
git:20260828.2b9056b2026-08-28 2b9056b 9,558 BA view · diff
git:20260825.8fb17962026-08-25 8fb1796 8,592 BA view · diff
git:20260729.f2eb8972026-07-29 f2eb897 21,917 BA view · diff
git:20260601.680292e2026-06-01 680292e 21,245 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 (9904 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

dotnet/skills · 5,437 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-17 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_u2kukkloufwrpafq
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dotnet/skills/test-smell-detection
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4aa11579a99181fc15c0421a43d435e42e2bcd1363463780a4e85e22ade64402

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