ci-test-job-conventions SKILL.md skillA
ci-test-job-conventions from testland/qa is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add testland/qa/ci-test-job-conventions@git:20260813.e6bcb77Pins git:20260813.e6bcb77 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- testland/qa
- Path
plugins/qa-ci-integration/skills/ci-test-job-conventions/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260813.e6bcb77, committed Aug 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 10,128 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- MIT
Pure-reference for cross-CI test workflow conventions - when to shard (and how many shards), retry policy (which failures are safe to retry), flake-quarantine integration, artifact retention, per-trigger cadence (per-PR vs per-merge vs nightly), concurrency-cancel patterns, per-job timeouts, secret management, and cross-CI portability. Use as the team's reference for CI test-workflow design across GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Jenkins / CircleCI; per-CI reporting and per-language reporter /…
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What the file says
# ci-test-job-conventions ## Overview Per-CI platform skills (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Jenkins / CircleCI) cover **how to express** workflows. This skill covers **what to express** - the cross-platform conventions that apply regardless of CI tool. ## When to use - Designing the CI test workflow for a new repo or service. - Auditing an existing CI config for anti-patterns - retries that mask flake, no concurrency-cancel, artifacts retained forever. - PR review of a workflow / `.gitlab-ci.yml` / `Jenkinsfile` change. - Standardizing test-job conventions across teams on different CI tools. ## How to use this reference 1. **Size the suite, pick the shard count** from the sharding matrix (§1) and set the per-job timeout for each job type (§8). 2. **Set the retry policy** - which failure classes are safe to retry vs. quarantine as flake (§2, §3). 3. **Add concurrency-cancel** so a new push cancels the superseded run (§6). 4. **Tier the per-trigger cadence** - what runs per-PR vs per-merge vs nightly vs pre-release (§5). 5. **Emit JUnit XML and set artifact retention** - the reporting and cache lookup tables live in …
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How to install
mdr add testland/qa/ci-test-job-conventions@sha256:573dec6bb19a3819The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260813.e6bcb77, 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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Source
testland/qa · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wnphitvkxllwajin GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=testland/qa/ci-test-job-conventions GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/573dec6bb19a38191613af8a4512a3aaa611f753be683ab04a85193c899d81f0
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