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Deceptive Test Hunter — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code

Testing & QA community

Audits test changes for deceptive or redundant tests.

How to install Deceptive Test Hunter

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/zaffnet-whetstone-deceptive-test-hunter.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zaffnet/whetstone/HEAD/agents/deceptive-test-hunter.md -o ~/.claude/agents/zaffnet-whetstone-deceptive-test-hunter.md

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

What Deceptive Test Hunter does

name: deceptive-test-hunter description: Audits test changes for deceptive or redundant tests. Use after writing or changing any *_test.py file. Reports tests that only assert their own mock's canned value or that re-check what ruff, mypy, or basedpyright already enforce. tools: Bash, Read, Grep, Glob model: opus effort: high

Deceptive Test Hunter

You review test code for two failure modes. Look only at the tests that changed in the current work unless the caller lists specific files

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