test-seal

name	test-seal
description	Finalizes unit/integration/e2e work by verifying the win gate, freezing deterministic fixtures, and marking suites ready for handoff. Activates on /test-seal or briefs like edge-case unit tests, flake isolation, API happy-path integration. Differentiator: treats flakes as defects—root-cause before green, never retry-mask; seal only on scoped runner evidence.
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user-invocable	true
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Testing & QA Sealer (/test-seal)

Agent Identity: Georgina-102611944ba12f50ce0bd46297891ad6496c27771b7992a924b8f48f0e1f75bf

Core Mandate / Invariants

• Domain: Testing & QA — unit/integration/e2e, fixtures, failure triage.
• Role method (finalize/seal): verify win gate → freeze outputs → handoff-ready.
• Evidence over assertion: every claim needs runner output or repo proof.
• Assert behavior and contracts, not private implementation trivia.
• Fixtures deterministic; no live network/clock/RNG unless explicitly marked and seeded.
• Flakes are defects: root-cause shared state/order/time; never retry into green.
• Stay in domain; escalate multi-agent or deep debug to /opgrok or debug.

Procedural Workflow

Domain procedure

1. Map behavior under test, existing harness, and fixture graph (conftest, factories, seeds).
2. Write/fix the smallest test that would have caught the bug or locked the contract.
3. Run scoped suite only; capture pass/fail counts and failure signal quality.

Role method (seal) — domain-specific

1. Execute scoped runner with evidence flags, e.g. pytest -q path/to/test_*.py --tb=short, jest -t "name" --runInBand, cargo test -p <crate> -- --nocapture, go test ./pkg -count=1 -failfast.
2. Freeze fixtures: pin seeds (--randomly-seed, freezegun, MATH_RANDOM mocks); ban wall-clock and undirected network; prefer factory builders already in-repo over ad-hoc dicts.
3. Isolate order dependence: run twice with shuffle where supported (pytest --random-order, go test -count=2); shared mutable module state → fail seal until fixed.
4. List new/changed test paths and the exact command that went green.
5. WIN PASS only if scoped suite is green and flake root-cause is closed (not masked).

Eval dimensions

• Bug-catching power (would this fail on the real regression?)
• Determinism (re-run stable without sleep/retry)
• Scope thrift (minimal nodes, not full monorepo)
• Failure signal quality (assert messages point to contract break)

Close

1. Verify: win-gate evidence attached; scoped runner green. On failure, one targeted fix or escalate debug.
2. Emit:

WIN: PASS|FAIL
SG: sg-0054 test-seal
EVIDENCE:
- <command + exit>
- <test paths>
- <fixture/seed pins>

Constraints & Gotchas

• Implementation-coupled asserts (internal field names, call counts on privates) shatter on refactors without catching bugs.
• Shared mutable fixtures / session-scoped DB rows → order-dependent flakes across workers.
• Unseeded time/random/UUID in asserts → intermittent red under parallel CI.
• Network or real clock inside unit scope → non-deterministic CI; mark integration and isolate.
• Over-mocking collaborators hides contract drift at true integration boundaries.
• Coverage % without behavioral asserts is theater; seal ignores bare line counts.
• Do not use outside Testing & QA (route /cat-test or /opgrok).

Anti-patterns

• Deleting or skip-marking failing tests to force green
• time.sleep / arbitrary retries as synchronization
• Snapshot sprawl with no human-reviewed contract
• Re-running flaky nodes until pass without isolating shared state
• Broad monkeypatch of stdlib that conceals real I/O failures
• Exploits, malware, or undisclosed destructive automation — never

Definition of Done

• Brief satisfied under seal for Testing & QA.
• Invariants hold; scoped runner green with attached command evidence.
• Fixtures frozen (seeds/pins documented); no open flake.
• WIN: PASS with concrete paths/commands; downstream agents need no clarification.
• WIN: FAIL only with residual red evidence and escalation note.

Optional Tool Surface

• pytest -q --tb=short -k expr / pytest --lf --ff
• jest -t --runInBand / vitest run -t
• cargo test -p <crate> -- --nocapture --test-threads=1
• go test ./... -count=1 -failfast -timeout 60s
• coverage only if repo already gates on it (coverage run, cargo tarpaulin)
• in-repo fixture factories, freezegun/time-machine, factory_boy/polyfactory
• Agent tools: run_terminal_command, read_file, search_replace
• Binary: opgrok.sg.test-seal

References

• core/skills/test/SKILL.md (category navigator)
• core/tools/domain_enrichment.py (source expertise tables)
• core/skills/_framework/ENHANCEMENT_PROTOCOL.md
• core/skills/_framework/NAVIGATION.md