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

Matt Pocock
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

Matt Pocock
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
Anthropic
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

affaan-m
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

affaan-m
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.

run-eval
Run evaluations against a Copilot Studio agent via the Power Platform Evaluation API. Works on DRAFT agents — no publish step required. Lists test sets, starts a run, polls until complete…
Neeeophytee
Finding Unknowns Skills
progressive-disclosure
Split an oversized skill, CLAUDE.md, or spec into an entry file plus files that load only when they're needed.
Neeeophytee
Finding Unknowns Skills
regression-proof
Fix a reported bug with a regression test that demonstrably fails on the original behavior and passes after the fix. Use when implementing a bug fix or checking whether a proposed fix…
Neeeophytee
Finding Unknowns Skills
test-blindspots
Find consequential behavior that a passing test suite does not establish, using focused exploratory checks. Use when the user asks what green tests miss or wants confidence in test coverage…
Neeeophytee
Finding Unknowns Skills
blindspot-pass
Surface the user's unknown unknowns before work starts. Use when the user is entering an unfamiliar codebase area, an unfamiliar domain (design, video, infra), or explicitly asks for a…
Neeeophytee
Finding Unknowns Skills
brainstorm-prototypes
Generate several genuinely different throwaway variations (designs, approaches, drafts) for the user to react to. Use when the user can only recognize what they want by seeing it — visual…
Neeeophytee
Finding Unknowns Skills
change-quiz
After a working session, produce a report on what changed plus a quiz the user must pass before merging. Use when the user asks "what did we actually do," wants to review a large change, or…
Neeeophytee
Finding Unknowns Skills
implementation-notes
Keep a running implementation-notes.md during a build, logging every deviation from the plan and every discovered edge case. Use whenever implementing against an agreed plan or spec…
Neeeophytee
Finding Unknowns Skills
implementation-plan
Write an implementation plan that leads with the decisions the user is most likely to change, and buries the mechanical work at the bottom. Use when planning is requested before a build…
Neeeophytee
Finding Unknowns Skills
pitch-packager
Package a finished piece of work (spec, prototype, implementation notes) into a single document that gets reviewers to understanding and approval fast. Use when the user needs buy-in, a…
Neeeophytee
Finding Unknowns Skills
reference-hunt
Use existing source code as the specification when the user can't describe what they want in words. Use when the user points at a library, module, folder, or site and says "like this," even…
red-green-refactor
Guides the red-green-refactor TDD workflow: write a failing test first, implement the minimum code to make it pass, then refactor while keeping tests green. Use when a user asks to practice…
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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