brooks-test SKILL.md skillA
brooks-test from hyhmrright/brooks-lint is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add hyhmrright/brooks-lint/brooks-test@git:20260920.0cb86a7Pins git:20260920.0cb86a7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- hyhmrright/brooks-lint
- Path
skills/brooks-test/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260920.0cb86a7, committed Sep 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 20, 2026
- Size
- 1,746 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,554
- License
- MIT
Test quality review drawing on twelve classic engineering books — with primary focus on xUnit Test Patterns, The Art of Unit Testing, How Google Tests Software, and Working Effectively with Legacy Code — that diagnoses structural problems in an existing test suite: brittleness, mock abuse, coverage illusions, slow execution, poor readability. Triggers when: user asks about test quality, shares test files for review, or expresses frustration: "tests keep breaking whenever I change anything…
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
# Brooks-Lint — Test Quality Review ## Setup Read in order: 1. `../_shared/common.md` — Iron Law, Project Config, Report Template, Health Score 2. `../_shared/source-coverage.md` — book coverage, exceptions, tradeoffs 3. `../_shared/test-decay-risks.md` — test-space symptom definitions and sources 4. `test-guide.md` (this directory) — the test quality review framework ## Process **Scope:** if the user did not share test files or point to a test directory, apply Auto Scope Detection (`../_shared/common.md`) first. 1. Build the test suite map (guide's "Before You Start" section) 2. Scan for each test decay risk in the order specified (Steps 1–4 of the guide) 3. Apply the Iron Law and output using the Report Template (Step 5 of the guide) **Mode line in report:** `Test Quality Review`
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add hyhmrright/brooks-lint/brooks-test@sha256:f4c17c845913b7e4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260920.0cb86a7, 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 5 versions of this file, between Apr 20, 2026 and Sep 20, 2026, about one every 38 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260920.0cb86a7 latest | 2026-09-20 | 0cb86a7 | 1,746 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.cbed805 | 2026-08-04 | cbed805 | 1,711 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260620.c77dcc6 | 2026-06-20 | c77dcc6 | 1,793 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260428.caea115 | 2026-04-28 | caea115 | 1,838 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260420.741283e | 2026-04-20 | 741283e | 2,236 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 (1746 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
hyhmrright/brooks-lint · 1,554 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zfks57t2yearqwlf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=hyhmrright/brooks-lint/brooks-test GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f4c17c845913b7e4b677a9959c2e86d49c8d87781faddffcc82ee9622e439bb9
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.