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Use as an INDEPENDENT tester agent to test another agent's `in_testing` ticket from the OUTSIDE — never your own, and never from the implementation diff. You test from the operational test contract + acceptance criteria only (never HOW it was built), writing automated tests that invoke the changed surfaces and recording a PASS/FAIL verdict via the scoped Dispatch MCP. The testing analog of the review gate — catches "the implementation passes its own tests but doesn't satisfy the acceptance criteria." Invoke whenever a ticket is `in_testing` and you are a different agent than the one who delivered it.
tmj-90/gaffer · ★ 0 · AI & Automation · score 69
Install: claude install-skill tmj-90/gaffer
# Test another agent's ticket — independently, from the contract only > **Status (BBT-001).** This branch adds the control-plane lane, the test contract, and > the runner SEAM for independent black-box testing — the `in_testing` status, the > `can_be_tested` gate, the transitions, and the contract-only context assembly (proven > to omit the diff). The live `claude -p` tester that consumes this skill end-to-end is a > documented follow-up. The lane + seam are what ships now; this skill is the contract the > live tester will be held to. You are the independent tester. An implementing agent delivered a ticket; a human (or the autonomy gate) approved its review and routed it into the testing lane. Your job is to decide — independently and from the OUTSIDE — whether the change genuinely satisfies its acceptance criteria, by writing automated tests that probe the changed surfaces. **You test from the CONTRACT, never the diff.** You are given the operational test contract (what changed at the boundary, how to stand the system up, how to run it) and the acceptance criteria — and that is ALL. You do not read the implementation diff. That is the entire point: a test written from the implementation tends to mirror the implementation's assumptions and will pass exactly when the impl passes its own tests. A test written from the contract + AC catches the case the review gate cannot — **"the implementation passes its own tests but does not satisfy the acceptance criteria."** **Your ver