stress-test

stress-test is a skill for Claude Code from alirezarezvani/claude-skills. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,737 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for examining whether a business assumption is reliable before committing resources. It breaks an assumption into specific claims and looks for evidence that could disprove it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test market-size estimates, revenue forecasts, customer-retention expectations, sales timelines, hiring plans, or claims about competitive advantage.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building plans around optimistic guesses about markets, revenue, customers, hiring, or competition.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the executive-mentor plugin — 6 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to test market-size estimates, revenue forecasts, customer-retention expectations, sales timelines, hiring plans, or claims about competitive advantage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/stress-test
About the project

claude-skills is a large collection of reusable skills, commands, plugins, and supporting resources for coding agents across engineering, business, research, compliance, and productivity work. It is used by people who want agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or Cursor to follow specialized workflows. The catalogue contains selected skills and settings from the collection.

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 28,607 stars · on GitHub · alirezarezvani.medium.com

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.

Any agent
npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill stress-test
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install executive-mentor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,737 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 18 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00049 $0.01737
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00695
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00174

Measured today against content hash bfa5b78f085c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stress-test 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 today.

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.

c-level-advisor/executive-mentor/skills/stress-test/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/em:stress-test — Business Assumption Stress Testing

Command: /em:stress-test <assumption>

Take any business assumption and break it before the market does. Revenue projections. Market size. Competitive moat. Hiring velocity. Customer retention.


Why Most Assumptions Are Wrong

Founders are optimists by nature. That's a feature — you need optimism to start something from nothing. But it becomes a liability when assumptions in business models get inflated by the same optimism that got you started.

The most dangerous assumptions are the ones everyone agrees on.

When the whole team believes the $50M market is real, when every investor call goes well so you assume the round will close, when your model shows $2M ARR by December and nobody questions it — that's when you're most exposed.

Stress testing isn't pessimism. It's calibration.


The Stress-Test Methodology

Step 1: Isolate the Assumption

State it explicitly. Not "our market is large" but "the total addressable market for B2B spend management software in German SMEs is €2.3B."

The more specific the assumption, the more testable it is. Vague assumptions are unfalsifiable — and therefore useless.

Common assumption types:

  • Market size — TAM, SAM, SOM; growth rate; customer segments
  • Customer behavior — willingness to pay, churn, expansion, referrals
  • Revenue model — conversion rates, deal size, sales cycle, CAC
  • Competitive position — moat durability, competitor response speed, switching cost
  • Execution — team velocity, hire timeline, product timeline, operational scaling
  • Macro — regulatory environment, economic conditions, technology availability

Step 2: Find the Counter-Evidence

For every assumption, actively search for evidence that it's wrong.

Ask:

  • Who has tried this and failed?
  • What data contradicts this assumption?
  • What does the bear case look like?
  • If a smart skeptic was looking at this, what would they point to?
  • What's the base rate for assumptions like this?

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 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. today First seen · 205 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A bfa5b78f085c

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stress-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository alirezarezvani/claude-skills (28,607 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,737 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 2026-10-24.

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