exploratory-testing SKILL.md skillA
exploratory-testing from marina-gajego/qa-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add marina-gajego/qa-skills/exploratory-testing@git:20261020.02a7d9dPins git:20261020.02a7d9d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- marina-gajego/qa-skills
- Path
skills/exploratory-testing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261020.02a7d9d, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 7, 2026
- Size
- 13,364 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Runs a real exploratory testing session (Session-Based Test Management) on a web app, API, mobile or desktop app — actually driving the product through MCP tools (Playwright MCP by default for web, HTTP requests for APIs) with an exploratory tester's mindset — and delivers a session report with charter, (I)nformation and (R)isk notes, defects with evidence, questions, coverage gaps and next charters. Use whenever the user asks for exploratory testing, an exploratory session, bug hunting…
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
# Exploratory Testing Do what a good exploratory tester does: **learn the product, design tests and run them at the same time**, letting each result decide the next action. There's no script. The value is in noticing what nobody wrote in a requirement. Freedom is not randomness. What separates exploratory from ad-hoc testing is a purpose (the charter), reasoning about what to try next, and recording what you learned. **What to read:** [references/environment-discovery.md](references/environment-discovery.md) and [references/tool-setup.md](references/tool-setup.md) always, before touching the product. Then, by target: [web-techniques.md](references/web-techniques.md) for web, [api-techniques.md](references/api-techniques.md) for APIs. [heuristics.md](references/heuristics.md) when you run out of ideas or the charter names a heuristic. [session-report.md](references/session-report.md) when writing the report, and [labels.md](references/labels.md) when it isn't in English. ## Language …
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How to install
mdr add marina-gajego/qa-skills/exploratory-testing@sha256:18ca9753a76a5721The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.02a7d9d, 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_uki3srbjegfb6lvx)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 7, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 14 days.
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| git:20261020.02a7d9d latest | 2026-10-20 | 02a7d9d | 13,364 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261007.0fc2203 | 2026-10-07 | 0fc2203 | 12,236 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
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- 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
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Source
marina-gajego/qa-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uki3srbjegfb6lvx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=marina-gajego/qa-skills/exploratory-testing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/18ca9753a76a57215335a5933b72ebf41fa8c814e55df6d8f9cf4729753c4c80
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