Best Claude skills for testing and QA
Testing skills make your agent prove its work: test-driven development loops, browser testing with Playwright, regression checks and benchmarks. Agents are much more reliable when a skill forces them to run the tests instead of announcing success.
300 testing skills · ranked live · November 2026
The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.
- 1#1
Anthropic
Skills
Anthropic
Skill Creator
Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance. Use when users want to create a skill from scratch, edit, or optimize an existing skill, run evals to…
Pack192k3.8MScore 93 - 2#2
Matt Pocock
Tdd
Test-driven development. Use when the user wants to build features or fix bugs test-first, mentions "red-green-refactor", or wants integration tests.
Pack321k33MScore 92 - 3#3
Migrate To Shoehorn
Migrate test files from `as` type assertions to @total-typescript/shoehorn. Use when user mentions shoehorn, wants to replace `as` in tests, or needs partial test data.
Pack321k33MScore 91 - 4#4
Setup Pre Commit
Set up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged (Prettier), type checking, and tests in the current repo. Use when user wants to add pre-commit hooks, set up Husky, configure lint-staged, or…
Pack321k33MScore 91 - 5#5
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincent
Test Driven Development
Use when implementing any feature or bugfix, before writing implementation code
Pack316k3.9MScore 90 - 6#6
Anthropic
Skills
Webapp Testing
Toolkit for interacting with and testing local web applications using Playwright. Supports verifying frontend functionality, debugging UI behavior, capturing browser screenshots, and…
Pack192k3.8MScore 90 - 7#7
affaan-m
AI Regression Testing
Regression testing strategies for AI-assisted development. Sandbox-mode API testing without database dependencies, automated bug-check workflows, and patterns to catch AI blind spots where…
Pack301k1.7MScore 89 - 8#8
Benchmark Methodology
Score a scoped competitor set into comparable profile cards: nine weighted dimensions (positioning, voice, visual craft, offer packaging, evidence, enterprise-readiness, thought leadership…
Pack301k1.7MScore 89 - 9#9
Corey Haines
Marketingskills
Corey Haines
Ab Testing
When the user wants to plan, run, or read A/B tests, or asks a judgement call on one: is the result real, can we stop, which version won, is this worth testing at all: sample size…
Pack60k6.3MScore 88 - 10#10
Agent Runtime Gateway Smoke Test
Verify a local agent API, temporary gateway tunnel, and remote sandbox callback with a tool-free task, then restore the original app connection.
Pack301k1.7MScore 88
What makes a great testing skill.
A red-green-refactor loop the agent must follow.
Browser automation for real user flows, not only unit tests.
Guidance on what not to test, to avoid brittle snapshot spam.
All 300 testing skills.
petrkindlmannemail-testing
End-to-end testing of email-dependent flows — signup confirmation, password reset, magic-link login, OTP/MFA codes, and notification emails. Covers the capture-inbox decision tree (Mailpit…
petrkindlmannexploratory-testing
Design and execute structured exploratory testing sessions. Covers Session-Based Test Management (SBTM), charter writing, heuristic-based exploration (HICCUPS, FEW HICCUPS), bug discovery…
petrkindlmannmobile-testing
Test native, React Native, hybrid, and Flutter mobile apps with Appium 3.x, Detox, Maestro, and Patrol. Covers device farm setup (BrowserStack, Sauce Labs), gesture simulation, deep link…
petrkindlmannobservability-driven-testing
Use production telemetry as INPUT to design new tests. Covers OpenTelemetry integration with tests, trace-based assertions, log-informed test creation, production-error analysis for…
petrkindlmannpayment-testing
Test payment and checkout flows end to end against PSP sandboxes — Stripe first, with the general pattern for Adyen/Braintree/PayPal. Covers Stripe test-mode card numbers and their decline…
petrkindlmannperformance-testing
Test application performance with k6 load/stress/soak/spike scripts and k6 scenarios, Lighthouse CI for Web Vitals, and performance budgets as CI gates. Covers load profiles, custom…
petrkindlmannplaywright-automation
Write production-grade Playwright tests in TypeScript: Page Object Model, fixtures, auto-waiting, user-facing locators, parallel execution, CI integration, sharding, and installed-version…
petrkindlmannqa-dashboard
Build and visualize QA dashboards and reports with Allure Report, Grafana, and ReportPortal. Covers test execution visualization, stakeholder-facing quality reports, trend/flakiness panels…
petrkindlmannqa-metrics
Define, track, and act on QA metrics: test coverage percentage, flakiness rate, defect escape rate, MTTR, test execution time trends, automation ROI, quality gates, and SLAs for test…
petrkindlmannqa-project-bootstrap
Onboard a new QA engineer to an existing codebase, or audit an existing test architecture. Produces a 30-day ramp plan: codebase orientation, framework walkthrough, test architecture audit…
petrkindlmannqa-project-context
Create and fill .agents/qa-project-context.md with the project's tech stack, test frameworks, CI/CD pipeline, environments, quality goals, risk areas, team structure, and conventions. This…
petrkindlmannqa-report-humanizer
Remove AI-generated patterns from QA reports, bug reports, test summaries, status updates, and quality communications. Detects and rewrites robotic test-result language, template-sounding…
mohitagw15856ad-copy
Write platform-native paid ad copy with multiple angles to test. Use when asked to write ad copy, Google/Facebook/LinkedIn/Instagram ads, PPC headlines, or paid social creative copy…
petrkindlmannqa-do
Route a plain-language QA situation to the next 1-2 skills, then carry out the requested workflow with evidence and a readable report. Use ONLY when the request does not match any other…
briiirussell
Cybersecurity Skills
briiirussellrecon
Perform structured reconnaissance and attack surface enumeration for authorized penetration tests, CTF challenges, and bug bounty programs. Use when the user mentions 'recon,'…
alibabacode-review-assistant
Triggered when the user submits code or requests a code review. Automatically analyzes code quality, identifies potential bugs, security vulnerabilities, and performance issues, and…
alibabamock-engine
alibabamultiturn-session
A placeholder Skill used by the multi-turn session e2e fixture.
alibabacode-quality-analyzer
Triggered when the user submits code or requests a comprehensive code quality analysis. Automatically performs static analysis, code review, and quality scoring. Analysis covers coding…
alibabafile-organizer
Triggered when the user needs to organize project files, analyze directory structure, or generate a project report. Use MCP tools to read file contents and produce a structured organization…
alibabamood-booster
Triggered when the user expresses boredom, low mood, frustration, irritation, or a need to relax. Responds with warm words of comfort and tells a joke to lighten the atmosphere. Trigger…
alibabaquick-calculator
Quickly produces accurate calculation results when a user needs arithmetic, unit conversion, or mathematical formula solving. Triggered when users say things like "help me calculate"…
alibabacode-quality-reviewer
Reviews code and provides detailed quality assessment
alibabaflaky-skill
A skill with potentially flaky behavior for testing retry
alibabagit-analyzer
Analyzes git repositories and commit history
alibabamcp-case-overrides
Per-case mocked MCP override smoke skill used by skill-up e2e tests.
alibabamcp-mocked-marker
MCP mocked marker smoke skill used by skill-up e2e tests.
alibabamcp-stdio-marker
MCP stdio marker smoke skill used by skill-up e2e tests.
alibabasandbox-mcp
Verify Sandbox MCP can be installed and called from skill-up.
alibabasdd-riper
SDD-RIPER workflow executor with phase gating
alibabatest-import-skill
Fixture skill for the skill-up import e2e tests.
testdino-hqplaywright-ci
Production-ready CI/CD configurations for Playwright — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Docker, parallel sharding, reporting, code coverage, and global…
testdino-hqplaywright-frontend
For frontend engineers authoring UI — how to make components reliably locatable by tests and AI agents. Covers the official Playwright locator priority, semantic/accessible markup first…
testdino-hqplaywright-qa
QA engineering workflows on top of Playwright. Use when a QA engineer asks to design test cases from a ticket, PRD or acceptance criteria, decide what to automate, write a bug report from a…
testdino-hqplaywright-migration
Step-by-step migration guides for moving to Playwright from Cypress or Selenium/WebDriver — command mappings, architecture changes, and incremental adoption strategies.
testdino-hqplaywright-pom
Page Object Model patterns for Playwright — when to use POM, how to structure page objects, and when fixtures or helpers are a better fit.
Testing skills, explained.
Also searched as: testing skills, playwright skill, tdd skill claude, qa agent skill.
What are the best Claude skills for testing and QA?
Right now the top-ranked testing skills on Alyn are Skill Creator (Anthropic), Tdd (Matt Pocock), Migrate To Shoehorn (Matt Pocock). Rankings combine GitHub stars, installs, freshness and depth, and update live.
Is there a TDD skill for Claude Code?
Yes. Superpowers includes test-driven development, and several packs here add Playwright and browser testing.
Do testing skills need extra tools?
Some bundle scripts that call Playwright or your test runner. Check the skill's files tab on Alyn before installing.
How do I install a testing skill?
Run npx skills add owner/repo in your project, or copy the folder with SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills. Every skill on this page has a ready-to-copy command.
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