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Amaury Levé 0f31228b58 Fix eval timeouts and skill activation for dotnet-test evals (#641)
* Fix evaluation timeouts and improve prompts for dotnet-test skills

- writing-mstest-tests: increase global vally timeout from 3m to 5m to match
  the 300s eval.yaml timeout for the complex 'Modernize legacy test patterns' stimulus
- code-testing-agent: increase timeout from 40m/2400s to 60m/3600s
- mtp-hot-reload: increase timeout from 6m to 10m and remove overly strict
  expect_tools constraint on launchSettings stimulus
- migrate-mstest-v1v2-to-v3: rephrase prompt for assertion overload errors to
  mention CS1501 and cover AreNotEqual/AreSame alongside AreEqual

* Increase eval timeouts for mtp-hot-reload and migrate-mstest-v1v2-to-v3 scenarios

* Strengthen activation prompts and add missing vally scenarios

- migrate-mstest-v1v2-to-v3: Add explicit 'MSTest v2 to v3' migration
  language in .testsettings and DataRow prompts (both eval.yaml and
  eval.vally.yaml)
- writing-mstest-tests: Add 'MSTest' keyword and skill-specific
  terminology to all prompts that lacked activation signal
- writing-mstest-tests: Add 5 missing vally scenarios (string
  assertions, comparison assertions, collection/null/reference
  assertions, conditional execution, parallelization)
- Add service-registry fixture files for the collection assertions
  scenario

* Improve skill activation via SKILL.md descriptions and prompt alignment

Three-pronged fix for systematic NOT ACTIVATED failures:

1. SKILL.md descriptions: Restructure writing-mstest-tests, migrate-
   mstest-v1v2-to-v3, and code-testing-agent descriptions to use the
   proven 'Use when user says' pattern with quoted trigger phrases
   (matching the working run-tests pattern)

2. Vally prompts: Each prompt now contains at least one exact quoted
   trigger phrase from its SKILL.md description to ensure strong
   description-to-prompt matching

3. Specific fixes:
   - writing-mstest-tests: All 15 prompts now include MSTest-specific
     trigger phrases (Assert.ThrowsExactly, sealed test class, DataRow,
     DynamicData, Assert.HasCount, Assert.IsInstanceOfType, etc.)
   - migrate-mstest-v1v2-to-v3: Add '.NET 5 dropped' and 'framework
     compatibility issues' to trigger phrases; strengthen dropped-TFM
     prompt
   - code-testing-agent: Add 'generate comprehensive unit tests' and
     'achieve high code coverage' to trigger phrases

* Revert SKILL.md description changes that caused activation regression

The description restructuring in 67056d8ec broke skill activation:
- migrate-mstest-v1v2-to-v3: went from 6/9 activating to 0/9
- writing-mstest-tests: lost isolated activation
- code-testing-agent: unnecessary change to working description

Restore all three SKILL.md files to their pre-regression state.
Keep the vally prompt improvements from 259727e.

* Fix writing-mstest-tests plugin-mode activation

- Add MSTest carve-out to code-testing-agent DO NOT USE FOR to prevent
  it from intercepting MSTest-specific prompts
- Add test parallelization/MSTest.Sdk keywords to writing-mstest-tests
  description (scenario 15 failed even in isolated mode)
- Strengthen prompts to be more MSTest-specific:
  - Scenario 1: emphasize MSTest patterns over generic 'write tests'
  - Scenario 4: remove vague 'something seems off', directly ask to
    fix swapped Assert.AreEqual arguments
  - Scenario 5: reframe as modernization request with specific APIs
  - Scenario 13: name specific MSTest assertion APIs in the prompt

* Fix writing-mstest-tests description over 1024 char limit

Shorten the USE FOR section by removing redundant 'help me write
comprehensive tests' and condensing the assertion API list.
Description is now 944 chars (limit: 1024).

* Increase vally job timeout from 60m to 180m

The code-testing-agent eval has a 60m per-stimulus timeout, and vally
runs multiple configurations (baseline, isolated, plugin). The 60m
job-level timeout was causing the job to be cancelled mid-evaluation.

Match the 180m timeout from the evaluate job in evaluation.yml.

* Address PR review comments

- Add IsPackable=false to writing-mstest-tests fixture csproj for
  consistency with other dotnet-test fixture projects
- Fix grammar in migrate-mstest-v1v2-to-v3 eval prompts: add comma
  after 'upgrade' and add 'file' for clarity (both eval.yaml and
  eval.vally.yaml)

* Trim dotnet-test aggregate description size under 15,000 limit

Consolidate duplicate filter keyword mentions in migrate-vstest-to-mtp
and shorten the cross-reference in migrate-xunit-to-xunit-v3 while
keeping the --filter-class/--filter-trait/--filter-query trigger
keywords for skill activation.

* Fix vally skill activation for 9 failing eval scenarios

Improve eval.vally.yaml prompts that were too specific, causing the model
to answer from general knowledge without activating the skill:

- migrate-mstest-v1v2-to-v3: Remove leading question that gives away the
  answer ('Is .NET 5 dropped?'); use multi-target fixture matching eval.yaml
- writing-mstest-tests (7 scenarios): Add 'following MSTest best practices'
  to trigger skill reading; make prompts more open-ended (don't name exact
  APIs like OSCondition, Assert.AreSame); match eval.yaml prompt style
- code-testing-agent: Clarify app complexity to encourage skill pipeline

The pattern: vally prompts that give away exact API names or answers let
the model skip reading the skill. More open-ended prompts referencing
'best practices' trigger skill activation.

* Improve skills and eval prompts for regression scenarios

migrate-xunit-to-xunit-v3 SKILL.md:
- Restructure from 16 steps to 13, merging redundant steps
- Move test platform selection from step 12 to step 4
- Mark steps 6-12 as conditional with prioritization note
- Remove external URL references that caused web_fetch detours

writing-mstest-tests SKILL.md:
- Add Response Guidelines for proportional responses
- Remove redundant Validation checklist and Common Pitfalls table
  (all items already covered in workflow steps)
- Reduces token count from 3,305 to 2,944

migrate-mstest-v1v2-to-v3 eval.vally.yaml:
- Relax DataRow rubric to account for MSTest 3.8.0 fixing the
  16-parameter constructor limit

writing-mstest-tests eval.vally.yaml:
- Make 3 prompts more open-ended by removing API name hints
  (Assert.HasCount, Assert.StartsWith, DynamicData to ValueTuples)
  so baseline model cannot answer confidently without the skill
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