# test-tagging

Analyzes tests in your project and assigns standard labels (positive, boundary, critical paths, integration, and more). Reveals the shape of your test coverage and spots gaps in core workflows.

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- Author: dotnet
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- Source: https://github.com/dotnet/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/dotnet-test/skills/test-tagging/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
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## What it does

The skill scans tests, detects language and framework, then tags each test with one or more labels from a unified taxonomy: positive, negative, boundary, critical-path, smoke, regression, integration, end-to-end, performance, security, concurrency, resilience, destructive, configuration, flaky. You get a report of how test types are distributed across your suite.

On invocation, the skill can audit tests and report findings, or apply tags directly to source files — depending on how you phrase the request. It supports all major languages: C#, Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, Ruby, Rust, Swift, Kotlin, PowerShell and more. When a language has a `test-analysis-extensions` catalog entry, the skill uses it; otherwise it relies on built-in framework data.

The skill does not write new tests, run them, or calculate code coverage. For behavioral test gaps or quality audits, use other skills instead.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill test-tagging -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/test-tagging/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/test-tagging/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill test-tagging -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/test-tagging/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill test-tagging -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/test-tagging/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install dotnet/skills test-tagging
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/test-tagging/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill test-tagging -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/dotnet/skills --path plugins/dotnet-test/skills/test-tagging
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/test-tagging/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add dotnet/skills --skill test-tagging -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/dotnet/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/dotnet-test/skills/test-tagging/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Classify tests with standard trait tags and see the distribution
- Check whether critical paths and edge cases have enough test coverage
- Compare the ratio of positive to negative test scenarios
- Tag each test with metadata for filtering and audit workflows
- Audit the test mix and surface coverage gaps

## Example prompts
- Audit all tests in the project and classify them by type
- Apply test-tagging labels to every test method in the tests/ folder
- Compare the share of integration and positive tests, generate a report

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: test-tagging
description: >
  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, or tag then verify the project builds. Read bodies when names
  mislead. Apply canonical attributes; otherwise report only. DO NOT USE FOR:
  requests owned by test-anti-patterns, coverage-analysis, crap-score,
  test-gap-analysis, code-testing, or migration skills.
license: MIT
---

# Test Trait Tagging

Analyze an existing test suite in any supported language and apply a standardized set of trait tags to each test method, giving teams visibility into their test distribution (positive vs. negative, critical-path coverage, smoke tests, etc.).

> **Language-specific guidance**: Read the caller-provided or runtime-listed
> `test-analysis-extensions` catalog and its matching language file.
> The helper is reference-only, not an invocable skill. If absent,
> continue with the built-in framework table below and report the limitation.

## When to Use

- Auditing a test project to understand the mix of test types
- Adding trait attributes to untagged tests
- Generating a summary report of trait distribution across a test suite
- Reviewing whether critical paths have sufficient coverage

## When Not to Use

- Writing new tests from scratch (use `code-testing` for any language, or `writing-mstest-tests` for MSTest)
- Running or filtering tests (use `run-tests` for .NET; equivalent native runners elsewhere)
- Migrating between test frameworks
- General quality, smell, flakiness, or assertion audits (use `test-anti-patterns` or the matching analysis skill)
- Diagnostic .NET executed line/branch/Cobertura interpretation or project-wide CRAP risk (use `coverage-analysis`); raw coverage collection (use `run-tests` for .NET, native tooling otherwise)
- CRAP analysis for a named method, class, or file (use `crap-score`)
- Behavioral gaps where a test would survive broken production logic (use `test-gap-analysis`)

## Inputs

| Input | Required | Description |
|-------|----------|-------------|
| Test project or files | No | Path to the test project, folder, or specific test files. Discover from the current workspace when omitted. |
| Scope | No | Infer from the verb: `tag`/`apply` edits, `audit`/`classify`/`report` is report-only, and `both` applies only when both are requested. If ambiguous, default to `audit` to avoid unrequested edits. Frameworks declared `report-only` always emit a report; `convention-based` frameworks edit only after the user confirms the convention. |
| Framework | No | Auto-detected. Override when detection fails. |

## Trait Taxonomy
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