API Smoke Tester

About

The Smoke Test API skill empowers Claude to perform comprehensive backend validation across multiple environments, including staging, production, and canary deployments. It provides a structured framework for testing health endpoints, CRUD operations, and authentication systems while strictly enforcing performance SLA targets. By automating status code verification, response structure validation, and error handling checks, this skill ensures that API services are fully operational and performant at every stage of the CI/CD pipeline, from pre-release staging to post-deployment monitoring.

Key Features

• Automated validation of status codes, response structures, and error handling
• Performance SLA validation for health, read, write, and search operations
• Critical CRUD and authentication endpoint verification templates
• Multi-environment support for staging, production, and canary deployments
• 5 GitHub stars
• Detailed pass/fail reporting with execution metrics and response time analysis

Use Cases

• Validating API health and performance immediately following a production deployment or rollback
• Automating pre-release checks to identify breaking changes before code reaches staging environments
• Testing canary deployments at various traffic intervals (5%, 25%, 100%) to mitigate release risk