diff --git a/lib/internal/test_runner/test.js b/lib/internal/test_runner/test.js
index 2203bbd3497659..123d5a80baf2db 100644
--- a/lib/internal/test_runner/test.js
+++ b/lib/internal/test_runner/test.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 'use strict';
 const {
   ArrayPrototypeEvery,
+  ArrayPrototypeForEach,
   ArrayPrototypePush,
   ArrayPrototypePushApply,
   ArrayPrototypeShift,
@@ -259,6 +260,41 @@ class TestContext {
 
   constructor(test) {
     this.#test = test;
+
+    // Attach .skip, .todo, .only, .expectFailure variants to this.test,
+    // matching the same set exposed on the top-level test() in harness.js.
+    this.test = (name, options, fn) =>
+      this.#runTest(name, options, fn, getCallerLocation());
+    ArrayPrototypeForEach(
+      ['expectFailure', 'only', 'skip', 'todo'],
+      (keyword) => {
+        this.test[keyword] = (name, options, fn) =>
+          this.#runTest(name, options, fn, getCallerLocation(), {
+            __proto__: null,
+            [keyword]: true,
+          });
+      },
+    );
+  }
+
+  #runTest(name, options, fn, loc, extraOverrides) {
+    const overrides = {
+      __proto__: null,
+      ...extraOverrides,
+      loc,
+    };
+
+    const { plan } = this.#test;
+    if (plan !== null) {
+      plan.count();
+    }
+
+    const subtest = this.#test.createSubtest(
+      // eslint-disable-next-line no-use-before-define
+      Test, name, options, fn, overrides,
+    );
+
+    return subtest.start();
   }
 
   get signal() {
@@ -358,25 +394,6 @@ class TestContext {
     this.#test.todo(message);
   }
 
-  test(name, options, fn) {
-    const overrides = {
-      __proto__: null,
-      loc: getCallerLocation(),
-    };
-
-    const { plan } = this.#test;
-    if (plan !== null) {
-      plan.count();
-    }
-
-    const subtest = this.#test.createSubtest(
-      // eslint-disable-next-line no-use-before-define
-      Test, name, options, fn, overrides,
-    );
-
-    return subtest.start();
-  }
-
   before(fn, options) {
     this.#test.createHook('before', fn, {
       __proto__: null,
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-runner-subtest-skip-todo-only.js b/test/parallel/test-runner-subtest-skip-todo-only.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..62b02af35704e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-runner-subtest-skip-todo-only.js
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+'use strict';
+// Regression test for https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/50665
+// t.test() should expose the same .skip, .todo, .only, .expectFailure
+// variants as the top-level test() function.
+const common = require('../common');
+const assert = require('node:assert');
+const { test } = require('node:test');
+
+test('context test function exposes all variant methods', async (t) => {
+  for (const variant of ['skip', 'todo', 'only', 'expectFailure']) {
+    assert.strictEqual(
+      typeof t.test[variant], 'function',
+      `t.test.${variant} should be a function`,
+    );
+  }
+});
+
+test('skip variant does not execute the callback', async (t) => {
+  await t.test.skip('this is skipped', common.mustNotCall());
+});
+
+test('todo variant without callback marks subtest as todo', async (t) => {
+  await t.test.todo('pending feature');
+});
+
+test('todo variant with callback still runs', async (t) => {
+  let ran = false;
+  await t.test.todo('work in progress', () => { ran = true; });
+  assert.ok(ran, 'todo callback should have been invoked');
+});
+
+test('variants increment the plan counter', async (t) => {
+  t.plan(4);
+  await t.test('regular', common.mustCall());
+  await t.test.skip('skipped');
+  await t.test.todo('todo');
+  await t.test.todo('todo with cb', common.mustCall());
+});
+
+test('variants propagate to nested subtests', async (t) => {
+  await t.test('outer', async (t2) => {
+    for (const variant of ['skip', 'todo', 'only', 'expectFailure']) {
+      assert.strictEqual(
+        typeof t2.test[variant], 'function',
+        `nested t.test.${variant} should be a function`,
+      );
+    }
+    await t2.test.skip('inner skip', common.mustNotCall());
+  });
+});