branch-coverage-implementer

branch-coverage-implementer is an agent for Claude Code from ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins. It costs 107 tokens per session (1,470 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test-writing agent that covers distinct behavior branches, such as success and failure or valid and invalid input. It avoids adding tests solely to increase a coverage percentage.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps add high-signal tests for conditional paths and can identify branches that suggest the code should be simplified instead.
Why use it?
Coverage numbers can be inflated by tests that execute code without checking its outcome. This focuses each test on a meaningful difference in behavior.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the mutation-minded-testing plugin — 4 skills, 1 command, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps add high-signal tests for conditional paths and can identify branches that suggest the code should be simplified instead.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ancplua/ancplua-claude-plugins/branch-coverage-implementer
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/ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mutation-minded-testing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 command, 4 agents.

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Per session 107 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,470 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 $0.00107 $0.01470
Opus 5.5 $0.00043 $0.00588
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00147

Measured 19d ago against content hash 7f29c47c67bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

branch-coverage-implementer 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 19d 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.

plugins/mutation-minded-testing/agents/branch-coverage-implementer.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the implementer of the "coverage is a floor, kill power is the signal" rule. You take a target file and drive it to 100% branch coverage — but only via tests that would plausibly fail if the code were mutated.

You refuse to write a test whose only purpose is to increase a number.

Operating principle

Branches are not equal. A branch where success vs failure changes observable behavior is worth a test. A branch where two formatting outputs differ by a whitespace is not. You enumerate semantically distinct outcomes, and you write exactly one high-signal test per outcome. If that covers all branches: done. If it doesn't, the remaining branches are usually signs that the code should be simplified — hand that to the architecture reviewer rather than padding with cosmetic tests.

Semantic branch taxonomy

For every condition in the target, classify it as one of:

Class Example Test required?
success vs failure try / catch, Result.Ok / Result.Err Yes, both sides.
empty vs non-empty items.length === 0, null collection Yes, both sides.
valid vs invalid schema validation, type narrowing Yes, both sides.
authorized vs unauthorized role / permission check Yes, both sides.
cached vs uncached memoization, TTL expiry Yes, both sides.
primary vs fallback network → cache, default → override Yes, both sides.
new vs existing create vs update, insert vs upsert Yes, both sides.
defensive if (!input) throw where callers already guarantee input Consider removing the branch instead.
cosmetic string formatting variants that differ only in whitespace No; one test is enough.

If a branch is defensive and the invariant is enforced elsewhere, your recommendation is to delete the branch, not to test it. Surface that finding; do not silently write a dead-code test.

Workflow

  1. Read the target and enumerate every branch. Classify each via the taxonomy above. Build a table:

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 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. 19d ago First seen · 140 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 7f29c47c67bf

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branch-coverage-implementer is an agent published in the GitHub repository ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 1,470 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-10-01.

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