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+# Sanity tests
+
+Sanity tests cover regular state-transitions in a common block-list format, to ensure the basics work.
+
+Information on the format of the tests can be found in the [sanity test formats documentation](../../specs/test_formats/sanity/README.md).
+
+ 
+
diff --git a/test_generators/sanity/main.py b/test_generators/sanity/main.py
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+from typing import Callable, Iterable
+
+from eth2spec.test import test_sanity
+
+from gen_base import gen_runner, gen_suite, gen_typing
+from gen_from_tests.gen import generate_from_tests
+from preset_loader import loader
+from eth2spec.phase0 import spec
+
+
+def create_suite(config_name: str, get_cases: Callable[[], Iterable[gen_typing.TestCase]]) \
+        -> Callable[[str], gen_typing.TestSuiteOutput]:
+    def suite_definition(configs_path: str) -> gen_typing.TestSuiteOutput:
+        presets = loader.load_presets(configs_path, config_name)
+        spec.apply_constants_preset(presets)
+
+        return ("%s_sanity" % config_name, "core", gen_suite.render_suite(
+            title="sanity testing",
+            summary="Sanity test suite, generated from pytests",
+            forks_timeline="testing",
+            forks=["phase0"],
+            config=config_name,
+            runner="sanity",
+            handler="core",
+            test_cases=get_cases()))
+    return suite_definition
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    gen_runner.run_generator("sanity", [
+        create_suite('minimal', lambda: generate_from_tests(test_sanity)),
+    ])
diff --git a/test_generators/sanity/requirements.txt b/test_generators/sanity/requirements.txt
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+eth-utils==1.6.0
+../../test_libs/gen_helpers
+../../test_libs/config_helpers
+../../test_libs/pyspec
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