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Testing Skills With Subagents
When to use
- Before deploying a new skill
- After editing an existing skill
- Skill enforces discipline that could be rationalized away
Skip when
- Pure reference skill → no behavior to test
- No rules that agents have incentive to bypass
Related
Complementary: ring:writing-skills, ring:test-driven-development
Testing skills is TDD applied to process documentation.
Run scenarios without the skill (RED — watch agent fail), write skill addressing those failures (GREEN), then close loopholes (REFACTOR).
Prerequisite: Understand ring:test-driven-development first. Complete worked example: examples/CLAUDE_MD_TESTING.md.
When to Test
This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.