Testing Skills With Subagents

Name: Testing Skills With Subagents
Author: obra/superpowers-skills

$npx mdskill add obra/superpowers-skills/Testing Skills With Subagents

Applies TDD to skill testing by running failure scenarios, writing fixes, and closing loopholes before deployment.

Helps verify skills work under pressure and resist rationalization during creation or editing.
Integrates with skill-specific test formats like pressure scenarios and rationalization tables.
Decides based on watching agents fail without the skill to ensure it prevents correct failures.
Presents results through documented test campaigns and compliance checks for process validation.

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Skill	Description
Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs	Interactive idea refinement using Socratic method to develop fully-formed designs
Code Review Reception	Receive and act on code review feedback with technical rigor, not performative agreement or blind implementation
Collision-Zone Thinking	Force unrelated concepts together to discover emergent properties - "What if we treated X like Y?"
Condition-Based Waiting	Replace arbitrary timeouts with condition polling for reliable async tests
Defense-in-Depth Validation	Validate at every layer data passes through to make bugs impossible
Gardening Skills Wiki	Maintain skills wiki health - check links, naming, cross-references, and coverage
Getting Started with Skills	Skills wiki intro - mandatory workflows, search tool, brainstorming triggers
Inversion Exercise	Flip core assumptions to reveal hidden constraints and alternative approaches - "what if the opposite were true?"
Meta-Pattern Recognition	Spot patterns appearing in 3+ domains to find universal principles
Preserving Productive Tensions	Recognize when disagreements reveal valuable context, preserve multiple valid approaches instead of forcing premature resolution