Verify skills work under pressure and resist rationalization using the RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycle. Critical for discipline-enforcing skills. - Purpose - Test skill effectiveness with pressure scenarios - Output - Verification report with rationalization table ```bash /customaize-agent:test-skill ["skill path or name"] ```
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# /customaize-agent:test-skill - Skill Pressure Testing
Verify skills work under pressure and resist rationalization using the RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycle. Critical for discipline-enforcing skills.
- Purpose - Test skill effectiveness with pressure scenarios
- Output - Verification report with rationalization table
```bash
/customaize-agent:test-skill ["skill path or name"]
```
## Usage Examples
```bash
# Test a TDD enforcement skill
> /customaize-agent:test-skill tdd
# Test a custom skill by path
> /customaize-agent:test-skill ~/.claude/skills/code-review/
# Start testing workflow
> /customaize-agent:test-skill
```
## Arguments
Optional path to skill being tested or skill name.
## How It Works
1. **RED Phase - Baseline Testing**: Run scenarios WITHOUT the skill
- Create pressure scenarios (3+ combined pressures)
- Document agent behavior and rationalizations verbatim
- Identify patterns in failures
2. **GREEN Phase - Write Minimal Skill**: Address baseline failures
- Write skill addressing specific observed rationalizations
- Run same scenarios WITH skill
- Verify agent now complies
3. **REFACTOR Phase - Close Loopholes**: Iterate until bulletproof
- Identify NEW rationalizations from testing
- Add explicit counters for each loophole
- Build rationalization table
- Create red flags list
- Re-test until bulletproof
## Pressure Types
| Pressure | Example |
|----------|---------|
| **Time** | Emergency, deadline, deploy window closing |
| **Sunk cost** | Hours of work, "waste" to delete |
| **Authority** | Senior says skip it, manager overrides |
| **Economic** | Job, promotion, company survival at stake |
| **Exhaustion** | End of day, already tired, want to go home |
| **Social** | Looking dogmatic, seeming inflexible |
| **Pragmatic** | "Being pragmatic vs dogmatic" |
## Best Practices
- Combine 3+ pressures - Single pressure tests are too weak
- Document verbatim - Capture exact rationalizations, not summaries
- Iterate completely - Continue REFACTOR until no new rationalizations
- Use meta-testing - Ask agents how skill could have been clearer
- Test all skill types - Discipline-enforcing, technique, pattern, and reference skills need different tests
