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testing-strategy

Guidelines for writing effective tests in this project

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Quality

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

85%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is well-structured and highly actionable, with executable commands, a concrete directory layout, and specific targets. Its main weakness is redundancy between the Unit Tests and Best Practices sections, which slightly hurts token efficiency.

Suggestions

Consolidate overlapping guidance: 'Best Practices' repeats descriptive names, one-assertion-per-test, isolation, and clean state already covered under 'Unit Tests' — merge or cross-reference instead of restating.

If a project-specific test runner config or fixture examples exist, link them from a short reference rather than leaving the guidelines entirely generic.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly lean bullet form without explaining concepts Claude already knows, but the 'Best Practices' section rehashes Unit Tests points (descriptive names, one-thing-per-test, isolation, clean state), so it 'could be tightened' per the level-2 anchor.

2 / 3

Actionability

It provides executable commands (npm test, npm test:unit, npm test:integration, npm test:coverage), a concrete tests/ directory tree, a specific naming example, and an 80% coverage target, matching 'fully executable code/commands; copy-paste ready.'

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

This is a simple guidelines skill rather than a multi-step destructive workflow; the 'Running Tests' commands are unambiguous and no validation checkpoints are required, so workflow clarity scores 3 under the simple-skills note.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The skill is short with no external references needed and is organized into clearly labeled sections (Unit Tests, Integration Tests, Running Tests, Test Structure, Best Practices, Coverage Goals), matching the simple-skill allowance for a well-organized single file.

3 / 3

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11

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12

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Description

50%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description correctly identifies the testing domain but is generic, lacks concrete enumerated capabilities, and omits any explicit 'Use when' trigger guidance. It is clearly better than non-descriptions like 'Helps with documents' but does not reach the specificity or completeness of the top anchors.

Suggestions

Add a 'Use when...' clause with explicit triggers, e.g. 'Use when writing or reviewing unit/integration tests, setting up test structure, or aiming for coverage goals.'

Enumerate concrete actions in the description, such as 'write unit and integration tests, mock dependencies, organize a tests/ directory, and measure coverage.'

Include natural keyword variations (unit tests, integration tests, test coverage, fixtures) that users would actually say.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description names the testing domain and a general action ("writing effective tests") but enumerates no concrete capabilities, matching the 'names domain and some actions, but not comprehensive' anchor rather than the multi-action level 3.

2 / 3

Completeness

It states what the skill covers (guidelines for writing effective tests) but provides no 'Use when...' clause or equivalent trigger guidance, so completeness is capped at 2 per the judging guidelines.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

"tests" and "writing effective tests" are natural terms a user might say, but common variations like unit tests, integration tests, or coverage are absent, fitting 'some relevant keywords but missing common variations.'

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Testing is a recognizable niche, yet the vague phrasing and lack of explicit triggers mean it could still overlap with other testing-related skills, matching 'somewhat specific but could still overlap.'

2 / 3

Total

8

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12

Passed

Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Total

15

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16

Passed

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