Condition-Based Waiting

About

The Condition-Based Waiting skill empowers Claude to identify and refactor brittle test suites that rely on hardcoded delays or sleep statements. By implementing intelligent polling patterns, it ensures that tests proceed only when a specific state, event, or file change is confirmed. This approach eliminates non-deterministic failures (flakiness) in CI/CD pipelines, optimizes test execution speed by removing unnecessary idle time, and provides clear, descriptive error messages when timeouts do occur.

Key Features

• Identifies hardcoded sleep and setTimeout calls in test code
• Automates documentation for justified timing-based logic
• Implements reusable polling helpers with configurable intervals and timeouts
• Prevents CPU waste with optimized polling intervals
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• Supports waiting for events, state machine changes, and file system updates

Use Cases

• Refactoring flaky CI/CD pipelines that fail inconsistently across different environments
• Hardening asynchronous logic tests where execution order is non-deterministic
• Accelerating test suite performance by replacing fixed delays with immediate state detection