Smoke Test

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve QA and bug reports

Example prompts

• “/smoke-test”

Requirements

• Node.js

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Test first — never fix without confirming broken
2. 2Re-test after fix — verify the fix worked
3. 3Timeout everything — timeout N on any command that could hang
4. 4Use helpers — pass(), fail(), fixed(), skip()
5. 5Idempotent fixes — safe to run repeatedly
6. 6Skip gracefully — skip() when a prerequisite is missing, don't fail

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit fc54831. 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:

  • bash
  • npm
  • redis-cli

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npm, 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

Smoke Test loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 89 tokens; SKILL.md has 774 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~89

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.8k

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

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:48

  | 7 | Embedding API key | — (check .env) |

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:135

  | `GBRAIN_DATABASE_URL` | (from .env) | Database connection URL |

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 garrytan/gbrain at commit fc54831, republished under its MIT licence (© garrytan). 774 words, ~1,803 tokens.

name

smoke-test

description

Health smoke tests + auto-fix for gbrain installs (and OpenClaw services when present). Run after machine/container restarts or whenever something seems broken. Tests critical services, auto-fixes bounded local issues, and reports worker topology without starting daemons. Extensible via user-defined test scripts in ~/.gbrain/smoke-tests.d/*.sh.

triggers

smoke test, run smoke tests, container restart check, health check, did the restart break anything, did the container restart break anything

tools

exec, read

mutating

true

gbrain smoke-test

gbrain smoke-test >> /tmp/bootstrap.log 2>&1

bash /path/to/gbrain/scripts/smoke-test.sh >> /tmp/bootstrap.log 2>&1

exec: gbrain smoke-test

# ~/.gbrain/smoke-tests.d/check-redis.sh
#!/bin/bash
redis-cli ping | grep -q PONG

# ── N. [Service Name] ──────────────────────────────────────
if [test condition]; then
  pass "[Service Name]"
else
  # Auto-fix attempt
  [fix command]
  if [re-test condition]; then
    fixed "[What was fixed]"
    pass "[Service Name] (after fix)"
  else
    fail "[Service Name] — [error detail]"
  fi
fi

© garrytan, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/smoke-test of garrytan/gbrain.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit fc54831