Test Guard
amElnagdy/guard-skills
Reviews newly written or edited tests against nine rules that cut test bloat, such as mock-heavy checks and near-duplicate cases, before they are committed.
Orchestrates the QUALITY pipeline stage for egregore work items, running code review, unbloat, and test updates.
Install Quality Gate
$ npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill quality-gate -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install athola/claude-night-market quality-gate --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate .claude/skills/quality-gate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "quality-gate" agent skill from https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market/tree/master/plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate into .claude/skills/quality-gate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "quality-gate", 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 install https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market/tree/master/plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gateType 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.
$ npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill quality-gate -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install athola/claude-night-market quality-gate --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate .agents/skills/quality-gate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "quality-gate" agent skill from https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market/tree/master/plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate into .agents/skills/quality-gate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "quality-gate", 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.
$ npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill quality-gate -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install athola/claude-night-market quality-gate --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate .cursor/skills/quality-gate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "quality-gate" agent skill from https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market/tree/master/plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate into .cursor/skills/quality-gate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "quality-gate", 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 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market.git --path plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill quality-gate -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install athola/claude-night-market quality-gate --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate .gemini/skills/quality-gate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "quality-gate" agent skill from https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market/tree/master/plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate into .gemini/skills/quality-gate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "quality-gate", 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.
$ gh skill install athola/claude-night-market quality-gateInstalls 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).
$ npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill quality-gate -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate .github/skills/quality-gate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "quality-gate" agent skill from https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market/tree/master/plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate into .github/skills/quality-gate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "quality-gate", 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.
$ npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill quality-gate -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install athola/claude-night-market quality-gate --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate .opencode/skills/quality-gate && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "quality-gate" agent skill from https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market/tree/master/plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate into .opencode/skills/quality-gate/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "quality-gate", 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
quality-gate- GitHub stars
- 341
- Token cost
- ~1.6k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 737 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 154
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Orchestrates the QUALITY pipeline stage for egregore work items, running code review, unbloat, and test updates.
- Works in 7 steps: Get changed files: git diff --name-only… → Load conventions from… → Filter conventions to those mapped to… → …
- Running quality checks before a PR
- SKILL.md covers When To Use, When NOT To Use, Routing Table and Inputs, plus 5 more sections
- Calls gh, make and git
What it does
Quality Gate is an agent skill from athola/claude-night-market. Orchestrates the QUALITY pipeline stage for egregore work items, running code review, unbloat, and test updates. Use when running quality checks before a PR.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Testing & QA, covering Quality gates and Code review. The repository describes itself as: 23 Claude Code plugins: TDD enforcement hooks, git/PR workflows, spec-driven development, code review, project lifecycle, fix-from-error, maintenance automation, context… The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Running quality checks before a PR
- Tasks that involve Quality gates
- Tasks that involve Code review
Example prompts
- “Use the quality-gate skill to orchestrate the QUALITY pipeline stage for egregore work items, running code review, unbloat, and test updates”
- “/quality-gate”
Workflow steps
7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Get changed files: git diff --name-only main...HEAD
- Load conventions from conventions/codex.yml
- Filter conventions to those mapped to the current step
- Run convention checks via conventions.py
- Invoke mapped skills on the changed files
- Collect all findings
- Calculate verdict
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9f3eb00. 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:
ghmakegit
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
lucumr.pocoo.org
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
Quality Gate loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 43 tokens; SKILL.md has 737 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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
The full file from athola/claude-night-market at commit 9f3eb00, republished under its MIT licence (© athola). 737 words, ~1,595 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/quality-gate/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- quality-gate
- description
- Orchestrates the QUALITY pipeline stage for egregore work items, running code review, unbloat, and test updates. Use when running quality checks before a PR.
- alwaysApply
- false
- category
- orchestration
- tags
- egregore, quality, review, conventions
- complexity
- intermediate
- model_hint
- standard
- estimated_tokens
- 300
Quality Gate
When To Use
- Running quality checks on egregore work items
- Self-review before creating a PR
- Reviewing another agent's PR in PR-review mode
When NOT To Use
- Manual code reviews outside egregore pipeline
- One-off lint or format checks (use
make lintdirectly)
Orchestrate the QUALITY stage of egregore's pipeline. Each quality step runs convention checks from the codex and invokes mapped skills.
Routing Table
| Step | Conventions | Skills | Modes |
|---|---|---|---|
| code-review | C1,C2,C3,C4,C5 | pensive:unified-review | self, pr |
| unbloat | - | conserve:unbloat | self |
| code-refinement | - | pensive:code-refinement | self |
| update-tests | - | sanctum:update-tests | self |
| update-docs | C5 | sanctum:update-docs, scribe:slop-detector | self |
Inputs
The orchestrator invokes this skill with:
- step: which quality step to run (e.g. "code-review")
- mode: "self-review" or "pr-review"
- work_item_id: the manifest work item ID
- branch: the git branch with changes
- pr_number: (PR-review mode only) the PR number
Self-Review Workflow
When mode is "self-review":
- Get changed files:
git diff --name-only main...HEAD - Load conventions from
conventions/codex.yml - Filter conventions to those mapped to the current step
- Run convention checks via
conventions.py - Invoke mapped skills on the changed files
- Collect all findings
- Calculate verdict
Auto-Fix Loop
If blocking findings exist:
- Attempt to fix each finding (skill-dependent)
- Commit fixes to the work item branch
- Re-run convention checks
- If still blocking after 3 attempts, verdict is "fix-required"
Verdict Calculation
if no findings:
verdict = "pass"
elif all findings are severity "warning":
verdict = "pass-with-warnings"
elif blocking findings remain after auto-fix:
verdict = "fix-required"Record verdict in manifest decisions:
{
"step": "code-review",
"chose": "pass-with-warnings",
"why": "2 warnings (C4: noqa in hooks), 0 blocking"
}Completion Integrity (opt-in, default OFF)
By default the loop runs indefinitely and autonomously: a
fix-required verdict is recorded but does not, on its own,
stop the item from advancing. This preserves the historical
hands-off posture.
When config.pipeline.completion_integrity is true, the
verdict becomes a gate the agent cannot talk its way past:
- A
fix-requiredverdict is reported to the orchestrator as a step failure, so the item cannot advance to the ship stage with unresolved blocking findings. It retries in place and, on exhaustingmax_attempts, is markedfailedand the overseer is alerted (never silentlycompleted). - Merge is held for human review regardless of
auto_merge: the PR is prepared but left open.
This binds "done" to the verifier (convention checks plus the
mapped review skills), not to the agent's own say-so. The
principle comes from shipped agent harnesses, stated best by
KbWen/agentic-os: an agent "can still cut a corner, it just
can't cut this one past a check it doesn't control." The
recurring patterns across those harnesses:
| Pattern | What it does | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Verifier gate as completion judge | Bind "done" to tests, lints, or result hashes the agent cannot fake | Aider, snarktank/ralph, gaasher |
| Completion promise + max-iterations cap | String-matching "done" is insufficient; pair it with an iteration ceiling and manual abort | anthropics ralph-wiggum |
| Evidence gates the agent does not control | Credential scan, test-execution validation, phase-log parsing enforced by hooks or CI | KbWen/agentic-os |
| Keep-if-better / revert-if-worse ledger | Score each change, revert regressions, log to an append-only ledger for review | gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills |
| Legibility anchor | A persisted current-state or repo-map file that lets a human re-enter the loop | Aider repo map, agentic-os |
| Human observer checkpoint | Watch early iterations, monitor diffs, reserve loops for defined problems | anthropics, ghuntley |
Show full SKILL.md (238 more words)Show less
Further rationale: make the illegal state unrepresentable before guarding against it, because a fallback that hides an impossible case becomes silent corruption instead of a locatable crash. Armin Ronacher, "The Coming Loop" (2026), https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/. The flag is off by default; enabling it is a deliberate choice to keep a human as the final judge.
PR-Review Workflow
When mode is "pr-review":
- Fetch PR diff:
gh pr diff <number> --name-only - Load conventions and filter to code-review step
- Run convention checks on changed files
- Invoke
pensive:unified-reviewon the diff - Collect all findings
Posting Reviews
Map findings to GitHub review:
- No findings:
gh apiPOST review with event "APPROVE" - Warnings only: POST review with event "COMMENT", findings as inline comments
- Blocking findings: POST review with event "REQUEST_CHANGES", blocking findings as inline comments with "must fix" prefix
Comment format per finding:
[egregore:{convention_id}] {message}
Convention: {convention_name}
Severity: {severity}Quality Config
Work items may have a quality_config field:
{
"skip": ["unbloat"],
"only": ["code-review", "update-docs"]
}skip: list of steps to skip (run all others)only: list of steps to run (skip all others)- If both are set,
onlytakes precedence - If neither is set, all steps run (default)
Convention Filtering by Step
Not all conventions run on every step. The routing table above defines which conventions apply to which step. The quality gate filters the loaded codex accordingly before running checks.
Exit Criteria
- All applicable convention checks executed
- All mapped skills invoked
- Verdict calculated and recorded in manifest
- For PR-review: GitHub review posted
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Files
Just SKILL.md in plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate of athola/claude-night-market.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9f3eb00
Compare with similar skills
Quality Gate 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.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality Gate this skillathola/claude-night-market | 341 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Test GuardamElnagdy/guard-skills | 1.3k | 2 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Code SolvingHoangTheQuyen/think-better | 122 | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Cross Modal Reviewinbrainfun/inbrain | 142 | 1 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Requesting Code ReviewHezaoHezao/poirot | 249 | 5 repos | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Compound Engineering Code ReviewEveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin | 25k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Quality Gate
What does Quality Gate do?
Orchestrates the QUALITY pipeline stage for egregore work items, running code review, unbloat, and test updates. Quality Gate is an agent skill from athola/claude-night-market. Orchestrates the QUALITY pipeline stage for egregore work items, running code review, unbloat, and test updates.
When should I use Quality Gate?
Quality Gate fits situations like: running quality checks before a PR; tasks that involve Quality gates; tasks that involve Code review.
How do I install Quality Gate in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill quality-gate -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate in athola/claude-night-market) into .claude/skills/quality-gate in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Quality Gate in Codex?
Run `npx skills add athola/claude-night-market --skill quality-gate -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/egregore/skills/quality-gate in athola/claude-night-market) into .agents/skills/quality-gate in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Quality Gate 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 athola/claude-night-market --skill quality-gate -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/quality-gate, .gemini/skills/quality-gate, .github/skills/quality-gate and .opencode/skills/quality-gate in your project.
What does Quality Gate need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Quality Gate needs the command-line tools its instructions call (gh, make and git).
Does Quality Gate access the network?
SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: lucumr.pocoo.org. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Quality Gate 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 Quality Gate use?
Quality Gate is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Quality Gate use?
About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Quality Gate?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Quality Gate: Test Guard (amElnagdy/guard-skills, 1.3k stars), Code Solving (HoangTheQuyen/think-better, 122 stars), Cross Modal Review (inbrainfun/inbrain, 142 stars) and Requesting Code Review (HezaoHezao/poirot, 249 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Quality Gate?
athola (a GitHub user) maintains it in athola/claude-night-market, which has 341 GitHub stars. The repository holds 154 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.
Source: athola/claude-night-market on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.