Guides test selection, authoring, and quality review at the smallest reliable boundary.

MITAuto-check passedTesting & QA

Install Test Master

skills CLI
$ npx skills add pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev --skill test-master -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev test-master --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/pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/test-master .claude/skills/test-master && 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/

Facts

Skill name
test-master
GitHub stars
297
Token cost
~842 tokens
SKILL.md length
387 words
Files
6 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
13
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Guides test selection, authoring, and quality review at the smallest reliable boundary.

  • Как тестировать
  • SKILL.md covers Decide What to Protect, Choose the Smallest Reliable…, Authoring Rules and Test Review
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Проанализируй тесты

What it does

Test Master is an agent skill from pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev. Guides test selection, authoring, and quality review at the smallest reliable boundary. Use when: "напиши тесты", "как тестировать", "проанализируй тесты", "проверь качество тестов", "ревью тестов", "тестовая стратегия"

Its SKILL.md is about 840 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 6 other files, including reference files (for example `references/e2e-tests.md`, `references/integration-tests.md` and `references/smoke-tests.md`).

It sits in Testing & QA. The repository describes itself as: Intent-driven AI-First development methodology for Claude Code and Codex — Project Knowledge, user-spec planning, focused execution, and evidence-gated reviews. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Как тестировать
  • Проанализируй тесты
  • Проверь качество тестов
  • Тестовая стратегия

Example prompts

  • “Use the test-master skill to guide test selection, authoring, and quality review at the smallest reliable boundary”
  • “/test-master”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b5db526. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    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

Test Master loads about 842 tokens when it runs, and up to ~4.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 58 tokens; SKILL.md has 387 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~58
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~842
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~4.3k

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 pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev at commit b5db526, republished under its MIT licence (© pavel-molyanov). 387 words, ~842 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/test-master/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 5 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
test-master
description
Guides test selection, authoring, and quality review at the smallest reliable boundary. Use when: "напиши тесты", "как тестировать", "проанализируй тесты", "проверь качество тестов", "ревью тестов", "тестовая стратегия"

Test Master

Decide What to Protect

Tests protect observable behavior or another explicit contract that must survive change. Trace each selected scenario to the user request, user-spec, or changed project contract.

Freely editable copy, presentation-only markup or styles, constants that merely repeat their source value, and framework behavior normally have no test subject. They become testable when an explicit user, accessibility, legal, safety, protocol, or project requirement makes their presence or semantics invariant. Test that contract at an observable boundary rather than freezing implementation shape or exact wording.

Choose the Smallest Reliable Boundary

Protect each distinct risk once at the smallest boundary that can reproduce it:

BoundaryUse when the risk depends on
UnitOne unit's calculation, decision, validation, transformation, or error behavior
IntegrationAn API, database, filesystem, queue, service contract, or collaborating components
E2EA critical user journey or behavior that needs the real application stack
SmokeSuccessful startup, initialization, deployment, or minimal system integration

Do not repeat the same risk at several levels for pyramid completeness. A characterization test may pass before a refactor when its purpose is to prove existing behavior remains unchanged.

When authoring a selected type, apply its conditional guide:

  • unit-tests.md — unit structure, dependency boundaries, and mocking;
  • integration-tests.md — real component boundaries, fixtures, external services, and cleanup;
  • e2e-tests.md — journeys, environment, selectors, and execution;
  • smoke-tests.md — minimal startup and infrastructure coverage.
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Authoring Rules

  • Test observable results, state, errors, or required outgoing interactions rather than private implementation shape.
  • Cover the changed happy path, meaningful branches, failure paths, and specified edge cases without duplicating an already protected risk.
  • Keep tests independent and deterministic with known state. Replace dependencies only outside the boundary the test is meant to exercise.
  • Several mocks are a signal to inspect the boundary, not a defect by count. A test fails when mocks replace the meaningful decision or merely replay configured values.
  • Use clear scenario names and minimal fixtures. Run the selected tests and separate unrelated baseline failures from regressions.

Test Review

When meaningful test code changes, run a fresh test-reviewer in full mode after implementation. For a user-requested review of existing tests, apply test-quality-review.md — demonstrated coverage gaps, boundary problems, and ineffective tests.

Reviewer severity follows the concrete regression that can pass undetected, not the category or appearance of the test problem. Naming preferences and optional improvements without concrete impact are not findings.

© pavel-molyanov, 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 5 other files (references) in skills/test-master of pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/e2e-tests.md
  • references/integration-tests.md
  • references/smoke-tests.md
  • references/test-quality-review.md
  • references/unit-tests.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b5db526

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Questions about Test Master

What does Test Master do?

Guides test selection, authoring, and quality review at the smallest reliable boundary. Test Master is an agent skill from pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev. Guides test selection, authoring, and quality review at the smallest reliable boundary.

When should I use Test Master?

Test Master fits situations like: Как тестировать; Проанализируй тесты; Проверь качество тестов; Тестовая стратегия.

How do I install Test Master in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev --skill test-master -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/test-master in pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev) into .claude/skills/test-master in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Test Master in Codex?

Run `npx skills add pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev --skill test-master -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/test-master in pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev) into .agents/skills/test-master in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Test Master 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 pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev --skill test-master -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/test-master, .gemini/skills/test-master, .github/skills/test-master and .opencode/skills/test-master in your project.

What does Test Master need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Test Master is instructions for the agent only.

Does Test Master access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Test Master 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 Test Master use?

Test Master 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 Test Master use?

About 842 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.4k 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 3.4k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Test Master?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Test Master: Web Application Testing (anthropics/skills, 180k stars), Diagnosing Bugs (fossasia/eventyay-interpretation, 1.6k stars), TDD (pietheinstrengholt/rssmonster, 564 stars) and TDD Workflow (hellangleZ/burn-in-cceverywhere-ralph, 112 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Test Master?

pavel-molyanov (a GitHub user) maintains it in pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev, which has 297 GitHub stars. The repository holds 13 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 23, 2026.

Source: pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.