Agent skill

Testing Boss

by pedronauck in pedronauck/skills

Author or review software tests and LLM/agent evals; choose test placement and mocks, diagnose flaky CI, or repair brittle suites.

No licenceAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Testing Boss

skills CLI
$ npx skills add pedronauck/skills --skill testing-boss -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install pedronauck/skills testing-boss --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/pedronauck/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/mine/testing-boss .claude/skills/testing-boss && 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
testing-boss
GitHub stars
634
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~636 tokens
SKILL.md length
284 words
Files
8 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
65
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Author or review software tests and LLM/agent evals; choose test placement and mocks, diagnose flaky CI, or repair brittle suites.

  • Tasks that involve LLM evaluation
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Observability

What it does

Testing Boss is an agent skill from pedronauck/skills. Author or review software tests and LLM/agent evals; choose test placement and mocks, diagnose flaky CI, or repair brittle suites. Excludes unrelated code review, debugging, CI design, and production observability.

Its SKILL.md is about 640 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 8 other files, including reference files (for example `references/ai-writes-tests.md`, `references/antipatterns.md` and `references/ci-automation.md`).

It sits in Development, covering LLM evaluation and Observability. The repository describes itself as: My personal favorite skills.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve LLM evaluation
  • Tasks that involve Observability

Example prompts

  • “/testing-boss”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0422940. 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

Testing Boss loads about 636 tokens when it runs, and up to ~26k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 57 tokens; SKILL.md has 284 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
~636
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~26k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 284 words (~636 tokens).

“Choose tests that can expose the changed behavior's failure. Use the existing suite at the lowest layer that can observe the invariant; reuse fixtures and utilities before creating new files.”

— opening of SKILL.md by pedronauck
name
testing-boss
metadata.author
Pedro Nauck
metadata.github
https://github.com/pedronauck
metadata.repository
https://github.com/pedronauck/skills

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 7 other files (references) in skills/mine/testing-boss of pedronauck/skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/ai-writes-tests.md
  • references/antipatterns.md
  • references/ci-automation.md
  • references/foundations.md
  • references/llm-eval.md
  • references/patterns.md
  • references/sources.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0422940

Used in 2 other repositories

We found 2 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in pedronauck/skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Testing Boss

What does Testing Boss do?

Author or review software tests and LLM/agent evals; choose test placement and mocks, diagnose flaky CI, or repair brittle suites. Testing Boss is an agent skill from pedronauck/skills. Author or review software tests and LLM/agent evals; choose test placement and mocks, diagnose flaky CI, or repair brittle suites.

When should I use Testing Boss?

Testing Boss fits situations like: tasks that involve LLM evaluation; tasks that involve Observability.

How do I install Testing Boss in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add pedronauck/skills --skill testing-boss -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/mine/testing-boss in pedronauck/skills) into .claude/skills/testing-boss in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Testing Boss in Codex?

Run `npx skills add pedronauck/skills --skill testing-boss -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/mine/testing-boss in pedronauck/skills) into .agents/skills/testing-boss in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Testing Boss 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 pedronauck/skills --skill testing-boss -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/testing-boss, .gemini/skills/testing-boss, .github/skills/testing-boss and .opencode/skills/testing-boss in your project.

What does Testing Boss need to run?

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

Does Testing Boss 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 Testing Boss 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 Testing Boss use?

No licence was found for Testing Boss or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Testing Boss use?

About 636 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.5k 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 25k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Testing Boss?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Testing Boss: Failproof AI SDK Integration (FailproofAI/failproofai, 5.3k stars), Eval (agentevals-dev/agentevals, 162 stars), Eve (vercel/vercel-plugin, 301 stars) and Dt Obs Genai (Dynatrace/dynatrace-for-ai, 162 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Testing Boss?

pedronauck (a GitHub user) maintains it in pedronauck/skills, which has 634 GitHub stars. The repository holds 65 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 14, 2026.

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