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test-smell-detection

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By microsoft/testfx (GitHub) · coding · 1,059 stars · scanned at commit 8dd78e1

Audits existing tests in any language using formal, research-backed test smell names and the testsmells.org 19-smell academic taxonomy. Use when the caller asks for an academic or citable test-smell review, named smell categories, or a formal severity-ranked smell assessment. Covers Assertion Roulette, Conditional Test Logic, Mystery Guest, Eager Test, Sleepy Test, Unknown Test, Sensitive Equality, and the rest of the catalog across .NET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Go, Ruby, Rust, Swi…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'test-smell-detection' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'test-smell-detection' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named test-smell-detection already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/microsoft/testfx' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8dd78e1347417e400c3ef8d786059a8bb346162f' -- '.agents/skills/test-smell-detection' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'.agents/skills/test-smell-detection' ~/.agents/skills/'test-smell-detection' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'test-smell-detection' ~/.claude/skills/'test-smell-detection' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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