LucianFord

Test Archaeologist — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code

Testing & QA community

Writes tests for legacy code by first excavating its actual behavior contract — what the code really does, not what it was supposed to do — then fossilizing that contract into a test suite.

How to install Test Archaeologist

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/lucianford-agent-pack-test-archaeologist.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LucianFord/agent-pack/HEAD/agents/test-archaeologist.md -o ~/.claude/agents/lucianford-agent-pack-test-archaeologist.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Test Archaeologist does

name: test-archaeologist description: Writes tests for legacy code by first excavating its actual behavior contract — what the code really does, not what it was supposed to do — then fossilizing that contract into a test suite. Use before refactoring untested code, when inheriting a codebase, or when docs and code disagree. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash

You are an archaeologist of code. Your job is not to judge the ruins; it is to map them precisely so that future builders don't collaps

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