# Doable Test Feature > Start and complete a Doable autonomous feature-testing workflow from the customer's coding agent. Use when the developer asks to test a named feature or a feature they just implemented and wants Doable to provide durable feature context, a TRD, managed test cases, and execution. Reuse an appropriate suite, start one coding-agent-origin Round for new or changed behavior, resolve it from the private workspace, then continue through the configured Doable MCP after explicit TRD approval. - Skill: `getdoable/doable-test-feature` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add getdoable/doable-test-feature` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/getdoable/doable-test-feature/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: AI & ML - Author: getdoable (https://skillmd.com/u/getdoable) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/getdoable/doable-test-feature --- # Test a Feature with Doable Turn a developer's local request into one bounded Doable testing workflow. Reuse Doable's existing Round, TRD, case-management, and execution contracts; do not create a second state machine. The bundled helper is an implementation detail: ```bash node /scripts/doable-code-context.mjs ... ``` ## Workflow 1. Resolve the feature scope locally from the request, selected change, ticket, PRD, or current conversation before calling any Doable tool. Inspect only enough local change context to name the feature and its user-visible boundary. Ask one short clarification only when that feature is genuinely ambiguous. Do not turn “test the feature I just built” into a whole-product scan, and do not create a remote Round while the user may be in the wrong workspace. 2. Before inspecting `.doable` state or searching remote suites, preflight the live connection with `get_code_context_connection`. The tool response, not the presence of a local MCP entry or environment variable, proves that the active credential is valid. If the tool is unavailable or disconnected or returns `401`, follow [the connection recovery workflow](../doable-connect/references/authentication.md), retry the preflight, and resume this original feature-testing request automatically. Do not build or sync a workspace profile yet; an implementation catch-up or regression may be answerable from an existing TRD and cases without a new Round. 3. Use Doable MCP to search accessible test suites by feature scope, flows, entry surface, and existing case coverage. - Reuse one clear match. - If several are materially plausible, show the small candidate set and ask the developer to choose. - If none matches, create one suite for this feature with the configured entry URL. Do not create duplicate suites merely because wording changed. 4. Inspect the selected suite's TRD and case coverage. - If the request is only a regression or an implementation catch-up already required by the current TRD, skip a new Round and rerun the affected existing cases. - If expected behavior, scope, fixtures, permissions, observable outcomes, or environment assumptions changed—or the suite has no TRD—continue with a new Round. 5. When step 4 requires a new Round, follow `doable-connect` first if this workspace is missing or stale. This establishes the sanitized routing profile before Doable plans questions, so likely repository owners and product surfaces are available. Then call Doable MCP `start_code_context_round` with the selected suite, exact feature request, only the developer's explicit supplemental questions, and the connected workspace ID. The Doable question planner may add focused supplements; it must not replace the base feature investigation or widen the feature. Save the MCP response privately and run `record-round --response --suite ` so the exact Round revision and current server state are bound to local state. 6. Continue from the returned state instead of assuming every retry needs another code scan. - `open_for_agent`: follow `doable-answer-questions` for that exact frozen Round. Inspect only the routed private sources, collect local evidence, ask at most one batched clarification, validate, build the safe payload, and submit it through Doable MCP. - `needs_attention`: stop and link the developer to Doable for the required defer/waive decision. - `ready_to_create`: keep the existing answers and continue to finalization; repeated agreement is not new evidence. - `creating`: report that finalization is already in progress and monitor the existing TRD task. Do not start or answer another Round. 7. Once the Round is `ready_to_create`, call Doable MCP `finalize_code_context_round` with `mode=auto`, save the response privately, and run `record-finalize`. - A suite without a TRD enters the existing create flow. - A suite with a TRD enters the existing follow-up flow. - The exact frozen Round revision is consumed once; retries must be idempotent. 8. Use Doable MCP to monitor the TRD. Present the resulting scope, flows, conflicts, and explicit unknowns for approval. Do not generate or execute cases before that approval. 9. After approval, use Doable MCP to generate or update cases, inspect coverage, and run the selected cases in the configured environment. Report case IDs, results, and any environment or fixture blocker. A code change alone is not proof of deployed behavior. ## Safety and boundaries - The configured Doable MCP connection is the only remote authority used by these Skills. A credential supplied during connection recovery belongs only in the coding-agent host's user-scoped MCP credential/configuration store; never echo it, pass it on a command line, or save it in workspace files. - Source code, local paths, repository identities, commits, secrets, raw logs, private URLs, and real customer data remain local. - Setup sends only the user-approved sanitized routing profile. Round answers send only product-level findings, observable anchors, exact human clarifications, and opaque evidence references. - Do not mutate a feature environment merely to collect context. Test execution happens only through the selected Doable suite and its configured environment. - A wrong-workspace signal is blocking: when routed repositories contain no material same-feature evidence, stop and ask the developer to open the correct workspace instead of submitting many unknowns. ## Completion Report the selected or created suite, Round code when one was needed, TRD create/follow-up status, approval state, generated or reused case IDs, execution result, and any remaining blocker. Keep local evidence details private.