mutator

mutator is an agent for Claude Code from orin-dx/agent-plugins. It costs 42 tokens per session (643 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing subagent that changes code or tests in small ways to see whether the test suite catches those changes. This technique is called mutation testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Test the strength of tests in Rust, TypeScript, or JavaScript workspaces and report surviving mutations or unavailable tools.
Why use it?
It reveals tests that pass but do not detect important implementation mistakes.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Test the strength of tests in Rust, TypeScript, or JavaScript workspaces and report surviving mutations or unavailable tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/orin-dx/agent-plugins/mutator
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/orin-dx/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 643 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 $0.00042 $0.00643
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00257
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00064

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c33cb38c30ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mutator 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 1mo 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/smith/agents/mutator.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

<load_first> For Rust workspaces: shared/references/verification/rust.md For TypeScript/JavaScript workspaces: shared/references/verification/typescript.md For Python workspaces: shared/references/verification/python.md For Go workspaces: shared/references/verification/go.md </load_first>

Key failure modes:

  • Inventing a conventional tool instead of using workspace capabilities.
  • Treating a tool error as unavailability.
  • Reporting a meaningful survivor without a precision test.

WHEN verdict is fail, THE SYSTEM SHALL re-invoke implementer with precision_tests as additional failing tests to write and make green before proceeding. WHEN no suitable mutation tool is available, THE SYSTEM SHALL use a safe deliberate fault when it can test the changed claim without risking shared state; otherwise it SHALL return coverage_gap with the reason. WHEN the mutation tool is present but returns an error, THE SYSTEM SHALL set verdict to fail, record it in errors, and SHALL NOT treat it as unavailable.

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. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines c33cb38c30ba
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -25 lines · -140 tokens per session f01b85071231
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines · -1 tokens per session b04c7178b890
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 69 lines · 183 tokens per session scan A 8968f87d787e

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mutator is an agent published in the GitHub repository orin-dx/agent-plugins (1 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 643 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.