design-tests SKILL.md skillA

design-tests from lokeshrana9999/shipyard is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add lokeshrana9999/shipyard/design-tests@git:20261011.e174462

Pins git:20261011.e174462 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
lokeshrana9999/shipyard
Path
plugins/shipyard-delivery/skills/design-tests/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261011.e174462, committed Oct 11, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 28, 2026
Size
5,312 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
MIT

Designs the tests for a feature from its spec and its real code, as a test-design document an implementer turns into tests. Use when asked "design tests for this", "write a test plan", or "what should we test?", to decide what to verify, or before tests are written for a change. It designs only; it doesn't write or run test code.

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

# Design tests

Turn a spec and the code that implements it into a test design someone can implement without guessing. The design names every case, where it runs, and exactly what it asserts.

## Inputs

- **The spec**: acceptance criteria, plan, or ticket. It defines what *correct* means.
- **The implementation** or diff under test. Read the real files: routes, handlers, services, validation schemas, guards, data writes.
- **Project settings**: on every invocation, read `.claude/shipyard/design-tests.md` in the project root if it exists; its settings win over everything inferred. It can set the test layers, a reference test per layer, response and error shapes, auth and tenancy conventions, how a foreign resource answers (404 or 403), and where the document goes. Its shape is in [references/overlay-example.md](references/overlay-example.md).

## Output

A test-design document in the shape of [references/doc-template.md](references/doc-template.md), returned in the reply. Write it to a file only when the caller asks for one.

## Rules
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add lokeshrana9999/shipyard/design-tests@sha256:0885db7706630a14

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261011.e174462, 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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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 11, 2026, about one every 12 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (5312 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

lokeshrana9999/shipyard · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-12 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_y47ya65jpwkmfvc6
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=lokeshrana9999/shipyard/design-tests
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0885db7706630a14ad693ec6f12fae42ad3247bc9f51754b452602e038fb74b5

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