Agent skill

Contract Testing

by thedaviddias in thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist

A skill your agent uses when setting up integration testing for a frontend-backend API boundary, evaluating whether two services are safe to deploy independently, or replacing slow end-to-end tests…

MITAuto-check passedTesting & QA

Install Contract Testing

skills CLI
$ npx skills add thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist --skill contract-testing -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist contract-testing --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/thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/contract-testing .claude/skills/contract-testing && 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
contract-testing
GitHub stars
74k
Token cost
~548 tokens
SKILL.md length
241 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
390
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when setting up integration testing for a frontend-backend API boundary, evaluating whether two services are safe to deploy independently, or replacing slow end-to-end tests…

  • Setting up integration testing for a frontend-backend API boundary
  • SKILL.md covers Quick Reference, Check, Fix and Explain, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Evaluating whether two services are safe to deploy independently

What it does

Contract Testing is an agent skill from thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist. Use when setting up integration testing for a frontend-backend API boundary, evaluating whether two services are safe to deploy independently, or replacing slow end-to-end tests with contract tests.

Its SKILL.md is about 550 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/rule.md`).

It sits in Testing & QA, covering Integration testing. The repository describes itself as: 🗂 The essential checklist for modern web development, for humans and AI agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Setting up integration testing for a frontend-backend API boundary
  • Evaluating whether two services are safe to deploy independently
  • Replacing slow end-to-end tests with contract tests

Example prompts

  • “/contract-testing”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e8d14d0. 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

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • frontendchecklist.io

    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

Contract Testing loads about 548 tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 54 tokens; SKILL.md has 241 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~54
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~548
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~3.1k

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 thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist at commit e8d14d0, republished under its MIT licence (© thedaviddias). 241 words, ~548 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/contract-testing/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
contract-testing
description
Use when setting up integration testing for a frontend-backend API boundary, evaluating whether two services are safe to deploy independently, or replacing slow end-to-end tests with contract tests.
metadata.category
testing
metadata.priority
medium
metadata.difficulty
advanced
metadata.estimatedTime
120
metadata.source
frontendchecklist.io
metadata.url
https://frontendchecklist.io/rules/testing/contract-testing

Implement consumer-driven contract testing for API boundaries

Integration tests that require both services running at the same time are slow, brittle, and hard to maintain. Consumer-driven contract testing decouples the consumer and provider test suites — each team can run their tests independently, yet the broker guarantees that the published contract is always verified against the live provider. This catches API mismatches days earlier than end-to-end tests, with far less infrastructure overhead.

Quick Reference

  • The consumer writes tests that describe what it expects from the API (the "contract")
  • The contract is published to a Pact Broker and verified against the real provider
  • Provider changes that break the contract fail CI before they are deployed
  • This replaces fragile end-to-end tests that require both services to be running simultaneously

Check

Check whether the frontend has consumer-driven contract tests that define and verify the API contract with the backend.

Fix

Add Pact consumer tests for the frontend API client, publish the contracts to a broker, and add provider verification to the backend CI pipeline.

Explain

Explain how consumer-driven contract testing works, what the Pact workflow looks like end-to-end, and how it compares to mocking and end-to-end testing.

Code Review

Review the Pact consumer tests. Flag interactions that are too permissive (any-type matchers on fields the consumer actually uses), missing status code assertions, and interactions for endpoints the consumer no longer calls.


For full implementation details, code examples, and framework-specific guidance, see references/rule.md.

Rule page: https://frontendchecklist.io/rules/testing/contract-testing

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/contract-testing of thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/rule.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e8d14d0

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Categories

Questions about Contract Testing

What does Contract Testing do?

A skill your agent uses when setting up integration testing for a frontend-backend API boundary, evaluating whether two services are safe to deploy independently, or replacing slow end-to-end tests…. Contract Testing is an agent skill from thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist. Use when setting up integration testing for a frontend-backend API boundary, evaluating whether two services are safe to deploy independently, or replacing slow end-to-end tests with contract tests.

When should I use Contract Testing?

Contract Testing fits situations like: setting up integration testing for a frontend-backend API boundary; evaluating whether two services are safe to deploy independently; replacing slow end-to-end tests with contract tests.

How do I install Contract Testing in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Contract Testing in Codex?

Run `npx skills add thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist --skill contract-testing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/contract-testing in thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist) into .agents/skills/contract-testing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

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

What does Contract Testing need to run?

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

Does Contract Testing access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: frontendchecklist.io. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Contract Testing 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 Contract Testing use?

Contract Testing 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 Contract Testing use?

About 548 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.2k 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 2.6k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Contract Testing?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Contract Testing: Plugin Testing (polyipseity/obsidian-terminal, 948 stars), Create Module (cartography-cncf/cartography, 4.1k stars), Td Integration Test (marcus/td, 251 stars) and Integration E2E Testing (shinpr/claude-code-workflows, 691 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Contract Testing?

thedaviddias (a GitHub user) maintains it in thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, which has 74,398 GitHub stars. The repository holds 390 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.