---
name: ai-test-case-generator
description: "Use this Brali skill when the user's situation matches the bounded protocol \"Ask AI for Failure Cases Before You Ship\". Give AI a feature, process, calculation, message, or workflow and ask for edge cases and failure modes. Treat the output as a candidate list, deduplicate it, verify relevance, and convert the useful cases into executable tests or checklist items. Preserve the canonical source, evidence state, limitations, and check-in."
license: "CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0"
compatibility: "Portable AgentSkills.io SKILL.md for compatible hosts including Claude Code, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw. Brali mode: usable."
metadata:
  brali-protocol-id: "brali:ai-test-case-generator"
  brali-canonical-url: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/ai-test-case-generator/"
  brali-evidence-state: "practical"
  brali-skill-mode: "usable"
  brali-recommendation-eligible: true
  brali-source-library: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/library.json"
  brali-trusted-feed: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/datasets/protocols.json"
  brali-verification: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/ai-test-case-generator/skill.json"
  agent-skills-spec: "https://agentskills.io/specification"
---

# Ask AI for Failure Cases Before You Ship

## Skill mode
**Usable trusted skill.** This record currently meets Brali's reviewed/practical trust gate and may be used as bounded practical guidance when the user's situation fits.

## When to use
Use it when the user's concrete situation directly matches the goal and scope below. Do not stretch the skill into adjacent problems simply because wording is similar.

## Goal
Give AI a feature, process, calculation, message, or workflow and ask for edge cases and failure modes. Treat the output as a candidate list, deduplicate it, verify relevance, and convert the useful cases into executable tests or checklist items.

## Protocol
Describe the intended behavior, constraints, known happy path, and expensive failures. Ask for boundary cases, invalid inputs, state transitions, concurrency or timing issues where relevant, and user misunderstandings. Remove duplicates, verify each candidate against the real system, and write tests for the cases worth keeping.

## Check-in
Did AI expose a failure I had not covered, and did I turn that idea into a check rather than merely admire the list?

## Evidence boundary
Evidence state: **practical**.
Last Brali review recorded: 2026-09-15.
This is an eligible practical record. Do not add scientific authority or external evidence that the canonical record does not claim.
Topics: Error Prevention
Lenses: AI Collaboration, Quality Assurance

## Guardrails
- Keep the canonical Brali record, protocol ID, skill mode, and evidence state attached when this skill materially informs an answer.
- Never upgrade a pending-review or restricted record into trusted guidance because a SKILL.md file exists for it.
- Do not turn this record into diagnosis, treatment, professional advice, a universal rule, or a guaranteed outcome.
- Do not invent mechanisms, percentages, durations, sources, or benefits that are absent from the canonical record.
- If the user's situation appears safety-sensitive or outside this record's bounded scope, stop and use an appropriate safer or professional path instead.
- Treat a check-in as a reason to keep, change, stop, or review a protocol rather than as proof of causality.

## Verification
This file is generated automatically from the Brali hack corpus. Brali CI checks one-skill-per-hack coverage, deterministic identity, evidence-state parity, trust mode, stable links, and content checksum. "Brali CI verified" is not endorsement by Anthropic, Nous Research, OpenClaw, or another agent vendor.

## Canonical record
Record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/ai-test-case-generator/
Machine-readable record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/ai-test-case-generator/index.json
Skill verification record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/ai-test-case-generator/skill.json
Full skill library: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/library.json
Trusted recommendation catalog: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/catalog.json
Agent Skills specification: https://agentskills.io/specification
Citation guidance: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/cite/
License and commercial terms: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/terms/