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title: "Bats Testing Patterns - Air Market"
description: "You have shell scripts doing real work, and nothing checks them when you change something. This helps you write tests for those scripts using Bats, the testing system built for Bash. Reach for it whe…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/bats-testing-patterns"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Bats Testing Patterns

Skill by [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

# Bats Testing Patterns

Put your shell scripts under test instead of hoping

## What this does

You have shell scripts doing real work, and nothing checks them when you change something. This helps you write tests for those scripts using Bats, the testing system built for Bash. Reach for it when a script is about to run in a pipeline, or when you want tests written before the script is.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Write tests for a shell script
- Add script tests to a CI pipeline
- Drive a shell utility test-first

## Information

**Bats Testing Patterns at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 12 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [wshobson/agents](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/shell-scripting/skills/bats-testing-patterns) |
| GitHub stars | 39,077 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 11,482, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Bats Testing Patterns and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Bats Testing Patterns's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f |
| Content hash | e1eb02880022bb1ed26432e68cf31103ae724d77c7821c8a50d7f517692f023a |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/blob/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/shell-scripting/skills/bats-testing-patterns/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Bats Testing Patterns](/security/bats-testing-patterns)

## About Bats Testing Patterns

This covers testing shell scripts with Bats, the Bash Automated Testing System. It is aimed at getting thorough test coverage over the scripts you already rely on.

Use it when you are writing tests for shell scripts, when scripts run as part of a CI/CD pipeline, or when you want to build a shell utility test-first rather than testing it afterward.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/details.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Bats Testing Patterns safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Bats Testing Patterns and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit be57c0b2e3c0, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/bats-testing-patterns.

### How do I install Bats Testing Patterns?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/bats-testing-patterns on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/shell-scripting/skills/bats-testing-patterns. Install from that link, not the branch.

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- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

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