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Review pull requests for MSTest and Microsoft.Testing.Platform with TestFx-specific checks. Use for every GitHub Copilot code review in this repository, with extra scrutiny for tests, public APIs, analyzers, MSBuild, localization, and agentic workflows.
Apply the vendored test-value-evidence skill with TestFx toolchain, assertion, parallel-safety, packed-consumer, and review conventions. Use when implementing or reviewing behavior-changing TestFx PRs or commits, including source-only changes.
Analyze assertion quality, depth, variety, and false confidence in existing tests. ALWAYS USE when asked about weak, shallow, trivial, always-true, self-referential, assertion-free, presence/truthiness-only, or insufficiently diverse assertions, including…
Legacy compatibility alias for the code-testing skill. Do not self-activate for user requests and do not treat this name as a custom agent. When invoked explicitly by older instructions, load code-testing and follow it instead.
Provides file paths to language-specific extension files for the code-testing pipeline. Call this skill to discover available extension guidance files (e.g., dotnet.md for .NET, cpp.md for C++). Do not use directly — invoked by code-testing agents and skills…
ALWAYS USE for test work that requires changes: write, add, generate, repair, or strengthen tests for existing code in xUnit, MSTest, NUnit, pytest, Vitest/Jest, Go, or another framework. Includes regression cases, failing or flaky tests, coverage-driven…
Activation requires either supplied .NET coverage reports/percentages/line, branch, or condition metrics, or an explicit request to collect .NET coverage for analysis. USE FOR: interpreting that evidence, including Cobertura data, partial conditions,…
Reference-only filter syntax for VSTest and MTP with MSTest, NUnit, xUnit v3, and TUnit. Load only after the platform/framework is known and a consumer needs to create or translate a filter. Do not load for unfiltered runs or platform detection. Used by…
MANDATORY for static source-to-test pairing: find or list source files/modules without corresponding tests, or suggest test locations from repository structure. Invoke even for a tiny package; do not substitute manual globbing. Uses Roslyn for C#/.NET and…
Grade a curated list of individual tests for readiness, A-F quality, and concrete improvements. ALWAYS USE FOR: grade tests, review only a named test, per-test readiness decisions, or quality bands for supplied methods, bodies, file spans, or bounded PR…
ALWAYS USE when asked to migrate, replace, or make testable existing C# static calls with a named wrapper or built-in abstraction: DateTime.UtcNow/Now or DateTimeOffset.UtcNow to TimeProvider/IClock, File.* to IFileSystem or an existing store such as…
Set up or recover MTP hot reload for a long-lived console-host edit/re-run loop in a Microsoft Testing Platform project. Use for explicit MTP console requests such as "enable hot reload", "dotnet run to rerun on edit", or unsupported/rude edits. Covers setup,…
Identify a .NET project's test platform, framework, command mode, and SDK-style vs classic project system. Use only for "which test platform/framework?", "VSTest or MTP?", or "what runner does this project use?", including bridge settings, UseVSTest opt-outs,…
ALWAYS USE before running .NET tests or answering with a test command or flags. Trigger on "run the tests", "exact dotnet test command", one test/class/category/trait/target framework, combined filters, `--filter-query`, `--no-build`, `--diag`, diagnostic…
MUST USE when an existing .NET test project was excluded from a .slnf/CI solution filter, disappeared from .sln/.slnx discovery, or lost its production ProjectReference; also for requests to set up, create, reuse, add, register, include, or repair a test…
Provides file paths to language-specific reference files for the test ANALYSIS skills (assertion-quality, test-anti-patterns, test-gap-analysis, test-smell-detection, test-tagging). Call this skill to discover available extension files (e.g., dotnet.md for…
Audit a test file or suite; produce a severity-ranked diagnostic report. ALWAYS USE for tests that verify nothing, missing/tautological assertions, swallowed/broad exceptions, flaky/order-dependent tests, duplication, or magic values. Polyglot. DO NOT USE for…
Pseudo-mutation analysis ONLY: answer whether tests would catch a bug if production code changed, which meaningful changes would still pass, or which caller-visible mutations existing assertions would miss; verify candidates when requested, then optionally…
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…
Classifies existing tests by standard traits and reports their distribution. USE FOR: tagging all tests with category attributes, categorizing/tagging/ labeling each test, compare happy vs error paths, audit the test mix, describe coverage shape by test type,…
ALWAYS USE when asked to fix, rewrite, update, improve, modernize, show corrected code for, or explain existing MSTest tests or MSTest-specific configuration. Use for "review" when corrected code or edits are wanted, even for one pasted assertion or passing…
Keep TestFx feature research and decision records, challenge material design choices, demonstrate user-visible behavior, and prove regression-test sensitivity with red/green comparisons. Use before new features or material design decisions, when adding…
Validate TestFx shipping paths and capable CI execution using packed consumers, package/cache provenance, exact exits and artifacts, and selected-versus-executed test evidence. Use for acceptance regressions, package/MSBuild/launcher/protocol changes, or…
Check concurrency and isolation before implementing or refactoring TestFx tests, lifecycle code, helpers, shared-state declarations, or production paths those tests exercise. Use before narrowing DoNotParallelize or ResourceLock, changing parallelization…
Preserve observable behavior when splitting files, moving members, consolidating helpers, or simplifying TestFx code. Use for structural refactors and file-diet implementation; inventory baseline semantics and consumers, then run focused equivalence checks.
Route gh-aw workflow design/create/debug/upgrade requests and check runtime execution contracts.
Validate generated TestFx localization catalogs, resource IDs, placeholders and locked tokens. Use for RESX/XLF changes, OneLoc PRs, localization build failures, duplicate targets or units, and orphaned translation entries.
Gate local-session scope, persistent delivery, live PR state, integration provenance, and owned cleanup. Use before implementing guidance changes, changing or pushing PR work, diagnosing package/output mismatches, or handing off implementation.
Systematic activities that need to be performed after a release is done.
Guide for using MSBuild Server to improve CLI build performance. Activate when developers report slow incremental builds from the command line, or when CLI builds are noticeably slower than IDE builds. Covers MSBUILDUSESERVER=1 environment variable for…
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