Running Smoke Tests

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Performing specialized testing
• With phrases like run smoke tests
• Quick validation
• Test critical paths

Example prompts

• “run smoke tests”
• “quick validation”
• “test critical paths”
• “/running-smoke-tests”

Requirements

• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash(test:smoke-*)

Workflow steps

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

1. 1Identify the critical paths that constitute a "working" application
2. 2Create a smoke test configuration listing each check
3. 3Write the smoke test suite as a lightweight script or test file
4. 4Implement timeout guards
5. 5Add deployment-gate integration
6. 6Store smoke test results as CI artifacts for audit trail.
7. 7Schedule periodic smoke runs (every 5 minutes in production) as synthetic monitoring.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Edit
  • Grep
  • Glob
  • Bash(test:smoke-*)

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships 1 file in scripts/, which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • curl

  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):

  • martinfowler.com
  • playwright.dev
  • curl.se
  • docs.github.com

  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.

• Compatibility

  Designed for Claude Code

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Running Smoke Tests loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 57 tokens; SKILL.md has 482 words of instructions outside code blocks.

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

~57

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

~1.4k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~1.4k

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

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 482 words, ~1,383 tokens.

name

running-smoke-tests

description

Execute fast smoke tests validating critical functionality after deployment. Use when performing specialized testing. Trigger with phrases like "run smoke tests", "quick validation", or "test critical paths".

allowed-tools

Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash(test:smoke-*)

compatibility

Designed for Claude Code

version

1.20.0

author

Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>

license

MIT

tags

testing, deployment, smoke-tests

#!/bin/bash
set -e
BASE_URL="${1:-http://localhost:3000}"  # 3000: 3 seconds in ms
PASS=0; FAIL=0

check() {
  local name="$1" url="$2" expected="$3"
  status=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --max-time 5 "$url")
  if [ "$status" = "$expected" ]; then
    echo "PASS: $name (HTTP $status)"
    ((PASS++))
  else
    echo "FAIL: $name (expected $expected, got $status)"
    ((FAIL++))
  fi
}

check "Health check" "$BASE_URL/health" "200"  # HTTP 200 OK
check "Homepage" "$BASE_URL/" "200"  # HTTP 200 OK
check "API status" "$BASE_URL/api/status" "200"  # HTTP 200 OK
check "Login page" "$BASE_URL/login" "200"  # HTTP 200 OK

echo "Results: $PASS passed, $FAIL failed"
[ "$FAIL" -eq 0 ] || exit 1

import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test';

test('homepage loads with navigation', async ({ page }) => {
  await page.goto('/', { timeout: 10000 });  # 10000: 10 seconds in ms
  await expect(page.locator('nav')).toBeVisible();
  await expect(page).toHaveTitle(/My App/);
});

test('API health endpoint responds', async ({ request }) => {
  const response = await request.get('/api/health');
  expect(response.ok()).toBeTruthy();
  expect(await response.json()).toHaveProperty('status', 'ok');
});

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

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (scripts, references, assets) in skills/.curated/running-smoke-tests of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

• SKILL.md
• assets/README.md
• references/README.md
• scripts/README.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287