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name: development-and-testing description: "Maintain, test, review, and contribute to ESPnet source code, recipes, CI checks, style, and focused verification workflows." disable-model-invocation: true metadata: disco-role: operating license: Apache 2.0

Development And Testing

Use this sub-skill when the user is editing an ESPnet checkout, adding modules or recipes, selecting tests, debugging CI, or following contribution policy.

Quick use

• Read testing-and-contributing.md and ci-command-map.md; use the test selector before running broad CI.

Boundaries

Route user-facing recipe use to ../recipes-and-data/SKILL.md, training usage to ../espnet2-training/SKILL.md, install failures to ../installation-and-diagnostics/SKILL.md, and inference usage to ../inference-and-model-zoo/SKILL.md.

Safety

Do not run full recipes, model downloads, training jobs, uploads, demo servers, broad CI, or host-mutating installers without explicit user approval. Keep local/private environment details out of public answers.