test-smell-detection SKILL.md skillA
test-smell-detection from dotnet/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dotnet/skills/test-smell-detection@git:20261009.e191d40Pins git:20261009.e191d40 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dotnet/skills
- Path
plugins/dotnet-test/skills/test-smell-detection/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261009.e191d40, committed Oct 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 1, 2026
- Size
- 10,094 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5,836
- License
- MIT
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…
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 Smell Detection Audit test code with the academic taxonomy, code evidence, calibrated framework idioms, and fixes native to the codebase. ## Scope - Audit only staged or named tests. Search the current workspace before asking for code; never claim a file is missing until that search finds no relevant test. - Read production code only when it changes a verdict. - For unfamiliar framework APIs, read the matching language file relative to the caller-provided or runtime-listed `test-analysis-extensions` catalog, not a skill invocation. If absent, use the framework and rules here and report the missing reference; do not search installation directories. - Read [the complete catalog](references/test-smell-catalog.md) when the caller requests all 19 smells, asks for citations, or the code may contain a smell outside the high-signal set below. Do not load it for a narrow question that this file answers. ## Audit Workflow 1. Search for and read the staged tests; detect language, framework, boundaries, and integration markers. This is the first action even when no path is named. 2. Read the tests and only verdict-changing production context. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dotnet/skills/test-smell-detection@sha256:ea63c61cadcda2efThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261009.e191d40, 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_u2kukkloufwrpafq)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 1, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026, about one every 26 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261009.e191d40 latest | 2026-10-09 | e191d40 | 10,094 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.00b3bac | 2026-09-02 | 00b3bac | 9,904 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.2b9056b | 2026-08-28 | 2b9056b | 9,558 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260825.8fb1796 | 2026-08-25 | 8fb1796 | 8,592 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260729.f2eb897 | 2026-07-29 | f2eb897 | 21,917 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260601.680292e | 2026-06-01 | 680292e | 21,245 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 (10094 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
dotnet/skills · 5,836 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · 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/ea63c61cadcda2ef1da556836057e13f5827a1665b60dbc4371df508c8ebce16
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