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nw-test-design-mandates from nwave-ai/nwave is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nwave-ai/nwave/nw-test-design-mandates@git:20260609.c723548Pins git:20260609.c723548 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nwave-ai/nwave
- Path
nWave/skills/nw-test-design-mandates/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260609.c723548, committed Jun 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 18, 2026
- Size
- 20,405 bytes
- Repository stars
- 633
- License
- MIT
Design mandates for acceptance tests - hexagonal boundary, business language abstraction, user journey completeness, pure function extraction, 3 Pillars (domain language / chained narrative / production composition), and the layered ATD discipline (Universe-bound assertion, layer-dependent PBT mode, two-tier acceptance, example-based sad paths).
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What the file says
# Acceptance Test Design Mandates Four mandates enforced during peer review. All must pass before handoff to software-crafter. ## LANGUAGE CONVENTION FRAME (read FIRST — overrides all examples below) **Code examples in this skill use Python syntax for illustration only.** They are NOT prescriptive about target language. nWave is language-agnostic per the "genericity and agnosticism" mandate (2026-05-24). **Before applying mandates**, detect the target project's language from manifest files: `package.json` → TypeScript/JS; `Cargo.toml` → Rust; `go.mod` → Go; `pyproject.toml`/`setup.py`/`Pipfile` → Python; `pom.xml`/`build.gradle` → Java/Kotlin; `*.csproj`/`*.fsproj` → C#/F#; `Gemfile` → Ruby; `Package.swift` → Swift. …
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How to install
mdr add nwave-ai/nwave/nw-test-design-mandates@sha256:bb4758584463a564The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260609.c723548, 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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The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Mar 18, 2026 and Jun 9, 2026, about one every 21 days.
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| git:20260609.c723548 latest | 2026-06-09 | c723548 | 20,405 B | A | view · diff |
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Source
nwave-ai/nwave · 633 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
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