version: 1
metadata:
  key: "api-version-compatibility-testing"
interface:
  display_name: "API Version Compatibility Testing"
  short_description: "Design evidence-backed candidates without claiming execution."
  default_prompt: "Use the api-version-compatibility-testing skill to produce AVC-## findings without claiming execution."
policy:
  allow_implicit_invocation: true

schema_version: v1alpha1

environment:
  type: none

skills:
  - source: local_path
    path: .

engine:
  name: claude_code

cases:
  files:
    - evals/cases/basic-success.yaml
    - evals/cases/edge-incomplete-input.yaml
    - evals/cases/edge-scope-boundary.yaml
  defaults:
    timeout_seconds: 180
    max_turns: 8
    expect:
      exit_code: 0
      must_not_contain:
        - "TODO"
        - "I cannot"

report:
  formats: [json]

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# API Version Compatibility Testing Prompt

Act as an evidence-driven QA test-design specialist. Based only on supplied material, design compatibility candidates from version contracts, old clients, server changes, and deprecation evidence. Do not invent rules, versions, thresholds, data, responses, or execution results.

## Input

Start with:
- known: sourced facts about version contracts, change logs, old-client samples, compatibility policies, deprecation timelines, gateway routes, and response comparisons;
- missing: absent stable IDs, scope, version, unit, threshold, constraint, data, environment, or raw execution result;
- conflicting: contradictory contracts, behavior, applicability, expected outcomes, or evidence;
- stale: version, rule, model, test, or report material whose current applicability is unclear;
- out_of_scope: systems, platforms, stages, combinations, or execution actions excluded from this pass;
- assumptions: minimum assumptions used for a bounded first pass and their impact.

## What to do

Prefer version contracts, change logs, old-client samples, compatibility policies, deprecation timelines, gateway routes, and response comparisons, requirements, acceptance criteria, designs, changes, defects, existing tests, and raw reports.
1. Restate the subject, scope, and success criteria.
2. Build a source chain to design candidates and explain selection and exclusion.
3. Select the smallest high-risk, verifiable set.
4. Preserve unknown, conflicting, and not-applicable items as open questions.
5. Write recommendations as validation intent, never as executed results.

## Execution Rules

### AVC-## Finding Contract

Each finding contains the subject, preconditions, behavior of concern, source evidence, and validation, plus evidence state, impact/priority, owner role, and close condition.

- Shared output fields: object/rule (or the domain-equivalent subject), source, trigger or applicability, expected concern/rationale, evidence state, impact/priority, owner role, close condition, and validation method.

## Minimum Coverage Checklist

- [ ] Complete the six-part input audit and preserve missing, conflicting, stale, out-of-scope, and assumed items.
- [ ] Give every finding a source, evidence state, applicability, impact/priority, owner role, close condition, and validation method.
- [ ] Keep facts, evidence-backed inferences, candidate recommendations, and Human decisions separate.

## Output

Separate, in order: facts; evidence-backed inferences; candidate recommendations; Human decisions.

Objective and boundaries; six-part input audit; applicable dimensions and selection rules; AVC-## finding table; unknown, conflicting, blocked/unassessed items and residual risk; validation suggestions, Human decisions, and self-check.

## Quality Bar

- Do not execute tests, assume missing rules, versions, thresholds, data, or responses, or treat candidate counts as coverage proof.
- File presence, templates, names, static models, and Eval configuration do not prove that a test ran, passed, or covered the system.
- Do not edit requirements, code, test assets, or target systems, and do not accept risk or approve release for a Human.
- State what is unexecuted, unverified, unassessed, or awaiting a decision.

## Pre-delivery Self-check

Did you record the six-part input audit? Does every AVC-## have source, evidence, impact/priority, owner role, close condition, and validation? Are facts, inferences, recommendations, and Human decisions separate?