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kz-tob 3deb39e7b3 testing-handbook-skills: make 15 descriptions routable (#276)
* testing-handbook-skills: make 15 descriptions routable

Every description was a tool-encyclopedia blurb averaging 125 chars —
the first half defined the tool, the second half restated it as a
trigger. "Coverage-guided fuzzer built into LLVM for C/C++ projects.
Use for fuzzing C/C++ code that can be compiled with Clang." Fifteen
skills competing on wording like that lose to each other and to
siblings elsewhere in the marketplace.

Each is now three parts: what it does for the reader, task first, since
the name field already carries the tool name; what it covers, in
concrete flags and symbols; then two to four situations in the words a
user would type. The anchors are the point —  LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput,
fuzz_target!, FuzzedDataProvider, afl-clang-fast, ASAN_OPTIONS,
project.yaml, an ASan stack trace, a campaign that finds nothing.

Fix the generator too, or the next skill it emits is thin again. All
four templates prescribed the shape being removed, and their worked
examples were these same descriptions. agent-prompt.md now says why the
existing rule is not enough: "MUST include Use when" is satisfied by
"Use for fuzzing C/C++ code", which is how these got written.

Put descriptions on one quoted line rather than a folded block. Eight of
these skills already fail the plugin's own 500-line limit, and folded
blocks added 4-5 lines to each; one quoted line removes 1-2 instead.
It is also what the rest of the repo uses at this length and is exempt
from the validator's plain-scalar rule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* testing-handbook-skills: ground three descriptions, gate placeholders

Three descriptions advertised anchors that appear nowhere in the skill
they route to — the worst failure for a change about routing, since the
description wins the query and the skill then has nothing to say.

harness-writing claimed "C/C++, Rust, Python, and Ruby". Grepping it for
ruby, gem, or .rb returns only that line; Python appears once, as a
Related Skills row. It would have taken "harness for my Ruby gem" from
ruzzy and delivered a file with no Ruby in it. Now C/C++ and Rust, which
is what the 12 LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput and 16 fuzz_target! sites cover.

constant-time-testing named ctgrind, whose only occurrence in the whole
plugin was that description. Replaced with Timecop and Valgrind, at 20
and 10 hits. Also leads with measuring a running implementation and adds
a "Not for" line, restoring the boundary constant-time-analysis already
documents in its own When NOT to Use.

cargo-fuzz claimed "cargo fuzz init and add"; only init, run, coverage,
and crash exist. Dropped add, added the nightly requirement and
cargo fuzz coverage, both of which the body does cover.

Gate the class rather than just these three. A description shipped with
a {placeholder} still in it passed every check, because the shortcode
pattern needs double braces — and this branch widened the templates'
slots, so the surface grew. validate-skills.py now rejects it, and
test_validate_skills.py holds each description check to a known-bad
fixture plus a positive control. Stdlib only, since CI runs these with
--no-project --with pytest, an environment without pyyaml.

Fix the pointer to a section that does not exist, drop the two-part
"what AND when" bar from testing.md's checklist since the old thin
descriptions satisfied it, correct the README's skill inventory, and
take the version to MINOR — this changes what the generator emits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Drop semgrep and codeql from the cross-reference graph

The prose and the summary table were updated to 14 skills, but the graph
still declared a Tools subgraph with semgrep and codeql and drew both
edges between them. Neither skill exists under skills/, so the graph
rendered 16 nodes beneath a sentence claiming 14 and promising that only
generated skills are shown.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Fail validation on frontmatter that carries no fields

extract_frontmatter returned (None, None) for an empty block, because
yaml.safe_load("") is None and that is not a parse error. validate_skill
branches on the error, so every frontmatter check was skipped and a skill
with no name and no description printed a clean tick. A bare scalar took
the same path and died on .get with an uncaught AttributeError.

Extraction now pairs both cases with an error, and validate_frontmatter
reports rather than returning silently when handed a non-mapping. Four
tests cover it, stubbing the parser so they run in CI's pyyaml-free
environment; they fail against the previous code and nothing else does.

Ground the atheris description's two API anchors in the body: rename the
harness entry point to TestOneInput, matching upstream Atheris and its
error messages, and add a FuzzedDataProvider section covering the typed
draws and the fixed-order rule. Both were advertised in the description
and appeared nowhere else in the file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Split atheris, and fix the FuzzedDataProvider method table

The structured-input section pushed atheris from 519 lines to 552, making
a file already over the plugin's 500-line error limit worse — the opposite
of what the PR body claimed. Both it and the two worked harnesses move to
sibling files, the split this plugin's own agent-prompt.md prescribes for
the band. SKILL.md is now 482 lines and passes the line-count check it has
failed since it was generated.

Three errors in the method table, all mine, corrected in the moved copy:

- remaining_bytes() returns a count and consumes nothing; it was listed as
  the way to get the remaining input. Following it hands the target an int
  where bytes is expected. The idiom is ConsumeBytes(fdp.remaining_bytes()).
- ConsumeIntList takes (count, bytes) and was shown with no arguments.
- ConsumeUnicode permits lone surrogates, not surrogate pairs. The pairs
  gloss suggests valid text; unpaired surrogates raise UnicodeEncodeError
  the moment a target encodes them, so the campaign reports its own input
  handling rather than the target's.

Every method is checked against the pybind registration in atheris.cc,
which exposes remaining_bytes despite the upstream README omitting it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-26 10:18:41 -04:00
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