Recipe Add Integration Tests Skill for Claude

Execute Skill: llm-friendly-context before writing Agent prompts, handoffs, or generated artifacts.

Execute Skill: subagents-orchestration-guide before making workflow decisions, invoking agents, or resolving findings.

Context: Test addition workflow for existing implementations (backend, frontend, or fullstack)

Orchestrator Definition

Core Identity: "I am an orchestrator."

Local authority gate: Make this recipe's workflow decisions and validate each returned result directly; delegate semantic deliverable production to the named specialist.

Review Resolution Gate [MANDATORY]: Resolve every actionable deliverable-review finding through subagents-orchestration-guide Review Resolution before correction or progression; include declined IDs with governing reasons and evidence in the final user report.

Before the first finding disposition, read references/review-resolution.md from the loaded subagents-orchestration-guide skill.

First Action: Register Steps 1-7 using TaskCreate before any execution.

Why Delegate: Orchestrator's context is shared across all steps. Direct implementation consumes context needed for review and quality check phases. Subagents work in isolated context.

Execution Method:

• Skeleton generation → delegate to acceptance-test-generator
• Test implementation → delegate to task-executor
• Test review → delegate to integration-test-reviewer
• Quality checks → delegate to quality-fixer

Document paths: $ARGUMENTS

Prerequisites

• At least one Design Doc must exist (created manually or via reverse-engineer)
• Existing implementation to test

Execution Flow

Step 1: Discover and Validate Documents

# Verify at least one document path was provided
test -n "$ARGUMENTS" || { echo "ERROR: No document paths provided"; exit 1; }

# Verify provided paths exist
ls $ARGUMENTS

# Discover additional documents
ls docs/design/*.md 2>/dev/null | grep -v template
ls docs/ui-spec/*.md 2>/dev/null

Classify discovered documents by filename:

• Filename contains backend → Design Doc (backend)
• Filename contains frontend → Design Doc (frontend)
• Located in docs/ui-spec/ → UI Spec (optional)
• None of the above → treat as single-layer Design Doc

Step 2: Skeleton Generation

Invoke acceptance-test-generator using Agent tool:

• subagent_type: "dev-workflows-fullstack:acceptance-test-generator"
• description: "Generate test skeletons"
• prompt: List only the documents that exist from Step 1:

  Generate test skeletons from the following documents:
  - Design Doc (backend): [path]    ← include only if exists
  - Design Doc (frontend): [path]   ← include only if exists
  - UI Spec: [path]                 ← include only if exists

Expected output: generatedFiles containing integration and e2e paths

Step 3: Test Implementation

For each layer with generated skeletons, record the current HEAD as diffBase, then invoke the layer's task-executor:

• Backend or single-layer → subagent_type: "dev-workflows-fullstack:task-executor"
• Frontend → subagent_type: "dev-workflows-fullstack:task-executor-frontend"
• description: "Implement integration tests"
• prompt: "Implement every test defined by these generated skeletons: [layer-specific Step 2 paths]. Governing documents: [layer-specific Design Doc and UI Spec when present]. Keep changes within the generated tests and the setup or fixture files they require. Verify the implemented tests against the skeleton claims."

Execute one layer at a time through Steps 3→4→5→6→7 before starting the next.

Expected output: status, filesModified, testsAdded, mutationEvidence

Apply this response gate after every task-executor invocation in Steps 3 and 5:

• status: completed, filesModified and testsAdded are present, and at least one changed integration/E2E path can be identified from the cumulative response paths against diffBase → Proceed to Step 4
• status: escalation_needed → Escalate to the user
• Any other status, or a response missing the required fields above → Stop and report the invalid or missing fields

Step 4: Test Review

Invoke integration-test-reviewer using Agent tool:

• subagent_type: "dev-workflows-fullstack:integration-test-reviewer"
• description: "Review test quality"
• prompt: "Review test quality. changedTestFiles: [integration/E2E paths in Step 3 filesModified or testsAdded that differ from diffBase]. diffBase: [revision recorded before Step 3]. skeletonFiles: [layer-specific paths from Step 2 generatedFiles]. mutationEvidence: [Step 3 mutationEvidence]."

Expected output: status (approved/needs_revision/blocked), testFiles, reviewBasis, qualityIssues, requiredFixes

Step 5: Apply Review Fixes

Check Step 4 result:

• status: approved → Mark complete, proceed to Step 6
• status: blocked → Escalate to user
• status: needs_revision → Apply the Review Resolution Gate
• one or more apply findings → Invoke task-executor with those findings, apply the executor response gate above, then return to Step 4 with prior_feedback
• every actionable finding is decline → Mark review complete and proceed to Step 6
• any unresolved user_decision_required finding → Escalate to user

Invoke the same layer's task-executor:

• description: "Fix review findings"
• prompt: "Fix these adjudicated test-review findings directly: [apply findings with IDs, governing basis, smallest correction, affected paths, and observable verification condition]."

Step 6: Quality Check

Invoke quality-fixer for the current layer:

• Backend or single-layer → subagent_type: "dev-workflows-fullstack:quality-fixer"
• Frontend → subagent_type: "dev-workflows-fullstack:quality-fixer-frontend"
• description: "Final quality assurance"
• Pass the latest executor's filesModified and mutationEvidence.
• prompt: "Final quality assurance for test files added in this workflow. Run all tests and verify coverage."

Expected output: status (approved/stub_detected/blocked)

Check quality-fixer response:

• stub_detected → Return to Step 3 with incompleteImplementations[] details, then re-execute Steps 3→4→5→6
• blocked → Escalate to user
• approved → Proceed to Step 7

Step 7: Commit

On approved from quality-fixer:

• Commit test files using Bash with message format: "test: add [layer] integration tests for [feature name]"

Scope Boundary for Subagents

Append the following block to every subagent prompt invoked from this recipe:

Scope boundary for subagents:
Operate within the task scope and referenced files in the prompt.
Use loaded skills to execute that scope.
Escalate when the required fix or investigation falls outside that scope.