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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"`t.skip` does not invoke `test.afterEach`","articleBody":"```js\n'use strict'\n\nconst test = require('node:test')\n\ntest.afterEach(() =\u003e {\n  process._rawDebug('!!! afterEach')\n})\n\ntest('one', (t) =\u003e {\n  t.assert.ok('one is good')\n})\n\ntest('two', (t) =\u003e {\n  if (process.env.TEST_SKIP === 'false') {\n    t.assert.ok('two is good')\n  } else {\n    t.skip('two gets skipped after some logic')\n  }\n})\n```\n\nI expect that `!!! afterEach` will be printed twice when this test suite is run. However, on Node.js 20.20.0 and 24.13.0, that is not the case. Instead, the result is:\n\n```sh\n❯ node index.js\n!!! afterEach\n✔ one (1.120209ms)\n﹣ two (0.08625ms) # two gets skipped after some logic\nℹ tests 2\nℹ suites 0\nℹ pass 1\nℹ fail 0\nℹ cancelled 0\nℹ skipped 1\nℹ todo 0\nℹ duration_ms 5.285417\n```\n\nThis is a problem when the test being skipped depends upon logic internal to the test. As an example, we may have a test setup like:\n\n```js\ntest.beforeEach((ctx) =\u003e {\n  ctx.testNamespace = {\n    foo: 'bar'\n    // other more complicated bootstrapping\n  }\n})\n\ntest.afterEach((ctx) =\u003e {\n  cleanUp(ctx.testNamespace.somethingThatNeedsCleaningAfterEachTest)\n})\n\ntest('something', (t) =\u003e {\n  const { foo } = t.testNamespace\n  if (foo !== 'bar') return t.skip('reason')\n  t.assert.ok('whatever')\n})\n```","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jsumners-nr","@type":"Person","name":"jsumners-nr"},"datePublished":"2026-01-21T14:32:09.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/61462/node/issues/61462"}