test-progress

Testing & Quality

Report the live test-progress heartbeat for linq2db test runs (read-only). The heartbeat is written by runs launched per this instruction set (test-runner passes --test-progress), so this skill reads the latest .build/.agents/test-progress.*.json and relays a one-line status — current test, completed/total, pass/fail tally. Use when the user says "/test-progress", "how far along are the tests", "watch the test run", "test status".

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/test-progress

Report the live progress heartbeat written by the test assembly during a run. Backed by Tests/Base/TestProgressReporter.cs; reader docs in .agents/docs/testing.md → Monitoring a long run.

When to run

Invoke /test-progress to check on an in-flight or most-recent test run — "how far along are the tests", "test status", "watch the run". Use /test to write or start tests, and /test-providers for provider / container setup; this skill only reads the heartbeat and never launches or edits anything.

How it works

The heartbeat is opt-in via the --test-progress command-line option on the test executable. Runs launched per this instruction set always pass it — test-runner appends --test-progress, and /test step 3.1a relies on that for long runs — so a heartbeat file is normally present for the active or most-recent run. There is no env var and nothing to toggle; this skill only reads the heartbeat.

The file lands at .build/.agents/test-progress.<tfm>.<pid>.json (one per TFM / process). For a run the user starts in their own terminal, they pass --test-progress themselves (see testing.md).

Steps (default / `status`)

Run the summary helper for the most recent run:
```
pwsh -NoProfile -File .agents/scripts/test-status.ps1
```
Relay its one-line output (state, completed/total, pass/fail/skip, rate, elapsed, ETA, current test). If it reports no heartbeat file, say so — either no run has started, or the run was launched without --test-progress (unusual for a Claude-launched run).
Add -Raw if the user wants the full JSON, or -Path <file> to target a specific run's heartbeat.
For a parallel per-provider run, each process writes its own .build/.agents/test-progress.<tfm>.<pid>.json; point -Path at the one you want to watch.

Don'ts

Don't toggle env vars or edit settings.local.json — the heartbeat is controlled by the --test-progress option, which test-runner always passes. There is no on/off switch to flip.
Don't edit Tests/Base/TestProgressReporter.cs or any test source from here — this skill only reads the heartbeat.
Don't launch test runs from here — that's /test. This skill reports the status of a run already in progress or finished.