45ck soak-test-planner
Purpose
Plan long-duration tests that expose leaks, degradation, drift, and operational instability over time.
Trigger this skill when
- You need this specific non-functional planning or review task rather than a broad testing request.
- You want explicit artifacts, thresholds, and evidence expectations.
- You need an output another agent or developer can execute or extend safely.
Expected inputs
- system context
- duration target
- steady-state workload
- stability concerns
Deliverables
- soak test plan
- duration profile
- degradation checks
- operational watchpoints
Operating procedure
- Clarify the target non-functional concern, the system boundary, and what would count as evidence.
- Translate vague goals into measurable metrics, thresholds, and observation points.
- Make assumptions, environmental constraints, and known blind spots explicit.
- Produce a compact artifact that can drive test execution or quality review.
Quality gates
- Prefer realistic workloads and failure modes over synthetic but meaningless coverage.
- Tie every scenario to an observable outcome and measurement method.
- State thresholds, assumptions, and residual risks explicitly.
- Do not hide missing telemetry or environment limitations.
Handoff targets
- load-test-scenario-writer
- observability-driven-test-planner
- nfr-evidence-matrix-builder
Output style
- Be explicit about uncertainty, infeasibility, and residual risk.
- Prefer compact, explainable artifacts over bloated plans.
- Make pass/fail logic and evidence expectations obvious.
- Keep scenarios tied to user impact, system behavior, or operational risk.
Failure modes to avoid
- Do not produce non-functional plans with no measurable thresholds.
- Do not assume production-like behavior without naming environment gaps.
- Do not bury required telemetry, instrumentation, or recovery assumptions.
Minimum output skeleton
## Summary
## Findings
## Structured outputs
## Metrics / thresholds
## Assumptions
## Open questions
## Recommended next skill