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bats-testing-patterns

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By wshobson/agents (GitHub) · coding · 42,412 stars · scanned at commit 9c61ab2

Master Bash Automated Testing System (Bats) for comprehensive shell script testing. Use when writing tests for shell scripts, CI/CD pipelines, or requiring test-driven development of shell utilities.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'bats-testing-patterns' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'bats-testing-patterns' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named bats-testing-patterns already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/wshobson/agents' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '9c61ab243def98f72da12abd41cfcf5bcd91af9d' -- 'plugins/shell-scripting/skills/bats-testing-patterns' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/shell-scripting/skills/bats-testing-patterns' ~/.agents/skills/'bats-testing-patterns' && 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/'bats-testing-patterns' ~/.claude/skills/'bats-testing-patterns' (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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