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test-smell-detection

Audits existing tests in any language using formal, research-backed test smell names and the testsmells.org 19-smell academic taxonomy. Use when the caller asks for an academic or citable test-smell review, named smell categories, or a formal severity-ranked smell assessment. Covers Assertion Roulette, Conditional Test Logic, Mystery Guest, Eager Test, Sleepy Test, Unknown Test, Sensitive Equality, and the rest of the catalog across .NET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Go, Ruby, Rust, Swift, Kotlin, PowerShell, and C++. DO NOT USE FOR a quick pragmatic test review (use test-anti-patterns), writing or running tests, framework migration, coverage, or assertion-diversity metrics.

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# Test Smell Detection

Audit test code with the academic taxonomy, code evidence, calibrated
framework idioms, and fixes native to the codebase.

## Scope

- Audit only staged or named tests. Search the current workspace before asking
  for code; never claim a file is missing until that search finds no relevant
  test.
- Read production code only when it changes a verdict.
- For unfamiliar framework APIs, read the matching language file relative to
  the caller-provided or runtime-listed `test-analysis-extensions` catalog,
  not a skill invocation. If absent, use the framework and rules here and report