Agent skill

Write Test

Add or extend a pytest integration test for 389 Directory Server under dirsrvtests/.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedTesting & QA

Install Write Test

skills CLI

$ npx skills add 389ds/389-ds-base --skill write-test -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install 389ds/389-ds-base write-test --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/write-test .claude/skills/write-test && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "write-test" agent skill from https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/tree/main/.agents/skills/write-test into .claude/skills/write-test/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "write-test", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/tree/main/.agents/skills/write-test

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add 389ds/389-ds-base --skill write-test -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install 389ds/389-ds-base write-test --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/write-test .agents/skills/write-test && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "write-test" agent skill from https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/tree/main/.agents/skills/write-test into .agents/skills/write-test/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "write-test", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add 389ds/389-ds-base --skill write-test -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install 389ds/389-ds-base write-test --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/write-test .cursor/skills/write-test && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "write-test" agent skill from https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/tree/main/.agents/skills/write-test into .cursor/skills/write-test/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "write-test", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base.git --path .agents/skills/write-test

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add 389ds/389-ds-base --skill write-test -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install 389ds/389-ds-base write-test --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/write-test .gemini/skills/write-test && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "write-test" agent skill from https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/tree/main/.agents/skills/write-test into .gemini/skills/write-test/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "write-test", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install 389ds/389-ds-base write-test

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add 389ds/389-ds-base --skill write-test -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/write-test .github/skills/write-test && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "write-test" agent skill from https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/tree/main/.agents/skills/write-test into .github/skills/write-test/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "write-test", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add 389ds/389-ds-base --skill write-test -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install 389ds/389-ds-base write-test --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/write-test .opencode/skills/write-test && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "write-test" agent skill from https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/tree/main/.agents/skills/write-test into .opencode/skills/write-test/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "write-test", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: write-test
GitHub stars: 294
Token cost: ~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length: 665 words
Files: 2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo: 7
Repo updated: Oct 6, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: Custom licence

At a glance

Add or extend a pytest integration test for 389 Directory Server under dirsrvtests/.

Works in 8 steps: Place the file. New tests go in… → Start from the canonical preamble (used… → Pick the topology fixture from the table… → …
Asked to add a test
Calls python3 and pip
Write a regression test

What it does

Write Test is an agent skill from 389ds/389-ds-base. Add or extend a pytest integration test for 389 Directory Server under dirsrvtests/. Use when asked to add a test, write a regression test, create a new test file or suite, add a CLI test, or extend the test for X. Enforces the hard conventions - topology fixtures imported from test389.topologies (lib389.topologies does not exist), one unique :id: UUID per test docstring, a module-level tier marker (pytestmark), DEBUGGING-aware cleanup finalizers, and the testimony plus duplicate-id gates CI runs on every PR. C…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/cmocka.md`).

It sits in Testing & QA, covering Unit testing, Test generation and Technical documentation. It works with pytest. The repository describes itself as: The enterprise-class Open Source LDAP server for Linux.

When your agent uses it

Asked to add a test
Write a regression test
Create a new test file
Extend the test for X

Example prompts

“/write-test”

Requirements

Python 3

Workflow steps

8 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

Place the file. New tests go in dirsrvtests/tests/suites// — pick by the FEATURE under test, not by the C file you changed (a reindex bug…
Start from the canonical preamble (used by essentially every suite file)
Pick the topology fixture from the table in docs/agents/testing.md — topology_st (standalone), topology_i2 (2 standalones)…
Mint the :id:: python3 -c "import uuid; print(uuid.uuid4())" (or python3 dirsrvtests/create_test.py -u). One fresh UUID per test function.
Write the docstring. Field order is canonical, :id: always first
Cleanup. The shared topology fixtures already register a finalizer (stops instances, disarms the watchdog) — with standard fixtures you…
Backend-conditional tests (BDB-only or LMDB-only behavior) combine tier and skip in a pytestmark list
Run the gates before pushing, from the repo root, exactly as CI's validate workflow does

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cb60126. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
- python3
- pip
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use pip, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Write Test loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.5k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 146 tokens; SKILL.md has 665 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~146
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~1.8k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them: ~2.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 665 words (~1,785 tokens).

“The full test-framework contract (fixture table, docstring fields, environment variables) is docs/agents/testing.md. For C unit tests, read references/cmocka.md instead of this page.”

— opening of SKILL.md by 389ds, Custom licence

name: write-test

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in .agents/skills/write-test of 389ds/389-ds-base.

SKILL.md
references/cmocka.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cb60126

Compare with similar skills

Write Test next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

Write Test compared with similar skills
Skill	Stars	Used in	Tokens	Auto-check	Licence	Repo updated
Write Test this skill389ds/389-ds-base	294	—	~1.8k	Automated safety check: Pass	Custom licence	yesterday
Test Generationagulli/atlas-agents	578	—	~598	Automated safety check: Pass	MIT	2 mo ago
Clean PytestLeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills	2.2k	—	~4.2k	Automated safety check: Pass	MIT	2 mo ago
Python Testingathola/claude-night-market	342	—	~800	Automated safety check: Pass	MIT	yesterday
Adk Verify Snippetsgoogle/adk-python	22k	—	~1.4k	Automated safety check: Pass	Apache-2.0	today
Hermetic Python Unit TestsdimensionalOS/dimos	4.6k	—	~1.4k	Automated safety check: Pass	Custom licence	today

Similar skills

Test Generation
agulli/atlas-agents
Generate comprehensive test suites for existing code. An agent skill from agulli/atlas-agents.
578 GitHub stars~598 tokensUpdated 2 mo ago
Testing & QAAuto-check passed
Clean Pytest
LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills
Write clean, maintainable pytest tests using Fake-based testing, contract testing, and dependency injection patterns.
2.2k GitHub stars~4.2k tokensUpdated 2 mo ago
Testing & QAAuto-check passed
Python Testing
athola/claude-night-market
Python testing patterns with pytest, fixtures, TDD, mocking, async and integration tests.
342 GitHub stars~800 tokensUpdated yesterday
Testing & QAAuto-check passed
Adk Verify Snippets
google/adk-python
Official
Checks that every Python code block in a Markdown file actually compiles and runs, by extracting each block to a temporary file, executing it in an isolated subprocess, and writing a pass/fail…
22k GitHub stars~1.4k tokensUpdated today
Testing & QAAuto-check passed
Hermetic Python Unit Tests
dimensionalOS/dimos
Rules for writing, fixing and reviewing pytest unit tests that are hermetic: behavior-focused, deterministic, isolated and cheap to run.
4.6k GitHub stars~1.4k tokensUpdated today
Testing & QAAuto-check passed
OpenROAD Module Test Adder
The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD
Adds integration or unit tests to an OpenROAD module: writes the Tcl test, generates golden files and registers it in both CMake and Bazel.
3.2k GitHub stars~1.8k tokensUpdated today
Testing & QAAuto-check passed

More from 389ds/389-ds-base

Commit And PR
389ds/389-ds-base
Commit and open a PR the 389-ds-base way — "Issue NNNN - summary" subject, Bug Description/Fix Description body, Fixes:/Relates: trailer, AI-attribution trailer, and squash-merge etiquette.
294 GitHub stars~1k tokensUpdated yesterday
Auto-check passed
Add CLI Option
389ds/389-ds-base
Add or change a dsconf/dsctl/dsidm/dscreate flag, subcommand, or noun in src/lib389 — argparse wiring, argtoattr maps, lib389 allowlists, generated man pages, Cockpit coupling, and clu tests.
294 GitHub stars~1.6k tokensUpdated yesterday
Auto-check passed
Add Config Attribute
389ds/389-ds-base
Add, rename, or wire a server config attribute end to end - a core cn=config attribute (the slap.h/libglobs.c chain) or a plugin config-entry attribute - including the schema line, defaults, upgrade…
294 GitHub stars~1.7k tokensUpdated yesterday
Auto-check passed
Verify Changes
389ds/389-ds-base
Verify a 389-ds-base change by routing through the environment's build/test skill — static Python gates plus, via that skill, C compile, cmocka, RPM build and pytest suites, cargo tests, and the…
294 GitHub stars~1.9k tokensUpdated yesterday
Auto-check passed
Touch Backend
389ds/389-ds-base
Rules for modifying back-ldbm database code under the dual-backend (BDB + LMDB) architecture.
294 GitHub stars~1.3k tokensUpdated yesterday
Auto-check passed
UI Expose Attribute
389ds/389-ds-base
Expose a server setting in the Cockpit web console (389-console) or change web UI behavior.
294 GitHub stars~1.6k tokensUpdated yesterday
Auto-check passed

Works with

pytest

Questions about Write Test

What does Write Test do?

Add or extend a pytest integration test for 389 Directory Server under dirsrvtests/. Write Test is an agent skill from 389ds/389-ds-base. Add or extend a pytest integration test for 389 Directory Server under dirsrvtests/.

When should I use Write Test?

Write Test fits situations like: asked to add a test; write a regression test; create a new test file; extend the test for X.

How do I install Write Test in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add 389ds/389-ds-base --skill write-test -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/write-test in 389ds/389-ds-base) into .claude/skills/write-test in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Write Test in Codex?

Run `npx skills add 389ds/389-ds-base --skill write-test -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/write-test in 389ds/389-ds-base) into .agents/skills/write-test in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Write Test in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add 389ds/389-ds-base --skill write-test -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/write-test, .gemini/skills/write-test, .github/skills/write-test and .opencode/skills/write-test in your project.

What does Write Test need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Write Test needs the command-line tools its instructions call (python3 and pip). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Write Test access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use pip, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Write Test safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Write Test use?

Write Test has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Write Test use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 750 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Write Test?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Write Test: Test Generation (agulli/atlas-agents, 578 stars), Clean Pytest (LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills, 2.2k stars), Python Testing (athola/claude-night-market, 342 stars) and Adk Verify Snippets (google/adk-python, 22k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Write Test?

389ds (a GitHub organization) maintains it in 389ds/389-ds-base, which has 294 GitHub stars. The repository holds 7 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: 389ds/389-ds-base on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Write Test

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Files

Compare with similar skills

Similar skills

More from 389ds/389-ds-base

Related

Questions about Write Test