From file to useful result
How to ask with this skill installed
Installing the skill gives your AI a method. Your request still has to provide the case-specific facts, constraints and expected output.
1Name the real task
Describe the decision or deliverable, not just the topic.
2Provide the evidence
Add source material, audience, limits and known facts.
3Define done
Set format, quality criteria and checks.
Adaptable starting prompt
Replace the brackets with your case
When to use it
- Generating test vectors for cryptographic algorithms or protocols
- Evaluating how well existing test vectors cover an implementation
- Finding implementation code paths that no test vector exercises
- Creating Wycheproof-style cross-implementation test vectors
- Measuring the concrete coverage value of a test vector suite
When not to use it
- No implementations exist yet (need code to mutate)
- Single trivial implementation with no edge cases
- Testing application logic rather than algorithm implementations
- The algorithm has no public test vectors to compare against
What you need first
- trailmark installed — if
uv run trailmarkfails, run:
uv pip install trailmark
- At least one implementation of the target algorithm in a
- A test harness that consumes test vectors and exercises
- A mutation testing framework for the target language
language with mutation testing support
the implementation
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