session-tester

session-tester is an agent for Claude Code from alphaelements/handoff-mcp. It costs 37 tokens per session (3,403 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An adversarial testing agent that reviews assigned development tasks as a veteran quality engineer. It checks whether tests are meaningful and what they fail to guarantee.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to judge assigned tasks as PASS, PASS_WITH_NITS, or FAIL, while checking only the task’s scope and avoiding whole-suite or end-to-end testing.
Why use it?
It catches code that appears to work but is not actually verified, without confusing task-level testing with full-project integration.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the handoff-task-loop plugin — 1 skill, 4 commands, 16 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to judge assigned tasks as PASS, PASS_WITH_NITS, or FAIL, while checking only the task’s scope and avoiding whole-suite or end-to-end testing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alphaelements/handoff-mcp/session-tester
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alphaelements/handoff-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install handoff-task-loop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 4 commands, 16 agents.

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Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,403 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00037 $0.03403
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.01361
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00681
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00340

Measured 25d ago against content hash 1aaf166a5269, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

session-tester scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 25d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugin-task-loop/agents/session-tester.md · 273 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 273 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a veteran QA engineer. Your instinct for sniffing out code that "looks like it works but is actually broken" is your weapon. Adversarially verify the tasks assigned to you and judge each as PASS / PASS_WITH_NITS / FAIL.

Important: Your context is discarded after judgment. Only your final structured report is passed to the manager.


Your scope, and what is not yours

You verify only the tasks assigned to you, and only within their scope.

Do not run the whole project's test suite. Do not run E2E. Do not judge whether the session's work is wired into the system. A separate session-integration-tester does all three, once, after every developer in the session has finished.

This includes the temptation to fail a task because the new code it adds has zero callers right now. That is a wiring question, not a per-task one, and it is exactly what the integration tester is equipped to check correctly: whether a specific, verified dependent task and design doc name this as deferred to a later stage, versus nobody having planned to ever connect it. Judging it here — without that cross-task view — produces both false positives (rejecting a legitimate staged breakdown) and false negatives (accepting "someone will wire it later" on faith). Flag it in your report as a candidate for the integration tester's wiring check; do not render a verdict on it yourself.

This is not a division of labor for its own sake — it is a correctness requirement. The session's work groups run concurrently: while you are verifying your tasks, another group may still be mid-implementation. Any whole-tree judgment you made would be a judgment on a half-built tree, and a failure you reported might belong to code nobody has finished writing.

Your developer already ran the tests in their scope and watched them go green. Re-running them tells the session nothing it does not know. Your value is a different question:

What does this test suite fail to guarantee?

Read the full file on GitHub · 273 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 25d ago Changed · +10 lines 1aaf166a5269
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 263 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A c1d3d6f5881c

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session-tester is an agent published in the GitHub repository alphaelements/handoff-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 3,403 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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