Skills

aid-create-testing-strategy

Frontmatter

name — aid-create-testing-strategy
description — Realize a ready testing-strategy seed from .aid/design/testing-strategy.md into the project’s quality (C6) documents — the test landscape (levels, coverage expectations, CI lane mapping, known gaps) and the gate policy (what blocks a merge, the thresholds, who may waive one). Use this skill when a testing-strategy seed is ready and the project has no record of its test lanes or merge gates yet. Creates the gate document on first use and registers it in .aid/settings.yml and .aid/knowledge/README.md in the same run, which opts that document into the Conformance Lane permanently — a choice you are making by running this skill. To revise C6 content this lifecycle already committed, use /aid-update-testing-strategy; to author or revise test CODE rather than the strategy, use /aid-create-test or /aid-update-test. Produced by the aid-architect agent and independently verified by aid-reviewer (full verify). Allocates a work-NNN folder.
allowed-tools — Read, Glob, Grep, Bash, Write, Edit, Agent
argument-hint — [<direction>] — which parts of the testing-strategy seed to realize

Definition: canonical/skills/aid-create-testing-strategy/SKILL.md

Flow

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  classDef aidStep fill:#1a2035,stroke:#d4a853,color:#f1f5f9
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  n2["CREATE"]
  n3["VERIFY"]
  n4["PRESENT<br/>hard stop -- the user decides"]
  n5(["DONE"])
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  n2 --> n3
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Source fragments

Every node in the chart above, in chart order, with the exact canonical/ text it was derived from.

1 · INTAKE · entry

## State: INTAKE

1. **Allocate** through the Work Initiation Gate exactly as the contract's Allocation rule
   requires (`canonical/skills/aid-design/SKILL.md` INTAKE step 4 is the shape), with
   `initiator: aid-create-testing-strategy`. `phase` is not driven.
2. **Read the seed** at `.aid/design/testing-strategy.md`.
3. **Resolve the destinations by concern, not filename.** This skill binds concern **C6**
   (quality & testing, `canonical/aid/templates/kb-authoring/concern-model.md`) and owns
   **two** documents. The seed's `## Destination` names both halves; where it does not,
   resolve C6 against `.aid/settings.yml` `knowledge.doc_set`, falling back to the C6 row of
   `canonical/aid/templates/kb-authoring/domain-doc-matrix.md`, and confirm with the user. An
   ambiguous realization is **asked**, never picked silently.
4. **Read both destinations** whole where they exist, and note each one's `source:` field.
5. **Classify complexity** for the `aid-architect` dispatch (verifier tier >= producer).

Source: canonical/skills/aid-create-testing-strategy/SKILL.md#L39-L52 · full step: canonical/skills/aid-create-testing-strategy/SKILL.md#L39-L54

2 · CREATE · step

## State: CREATE

**Exactly three conditions refuse. There is no fourth.**

Source: canonical/skills/aid-create-testing-strategy/SKILL.md#L58-L60 · full step: canonical/skills/aid-create-testing-strategy/SKILL.md#L58-L92

3 · VERIFY · loop-back

## State: VERIFY

**Full verify**, as `design-lifecycle.md` defines it. Not clean -> loop to CREATE; the
3-cycle circuit breaker there escalates to IMPEDIMENT + `lifecycle: Blocked`.

Source: canonical/skills/aid-create-testing-strategy/SKILL.md#L96-L99 · full step: canonical/skills/aid-create-testing-strategy/SKILL.md#L96-L101

4 · PRESENT — hard stop — the user decides · step

## State: PRESENT (hard stop -- the user decides)

Set `lifecycle: Paused-Awaiting-Input`. Present both realized documents and assert: which
half went where; on a creation path both registration surfaces were written; and anything
routed to `/aid-update-testing-strategy` is named.

Source: canonical/skills/aid-create-testing-strategy/SKILL.md#L105-L109 · full step: canonical/skills/aid-create-testing-strategy/SKILL.md#L105-L111

5 · DONE · exit · UNSPECIFIED

## State: DONE

Set `lifecycle: Completed`, `updated` now, append a `## Lifecycle History` row.

Source: canonical/skills/aid-create-testing-strategy/SKILL.md#L115-L117 · full step: canonical/skills/aid-create-testing-strategy/SKILL.md#L115-L117

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