meticulous-simulate-and-diff

meticulous-simulate-and-diff is a skill for Claude Code from alwaysmeticulous/skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,630 once invoked), scanned A, original, ISC.

A procedure for replaying one recorded user session against a live website and checking the result visually. It can inspect screenshots or compare them with an earlier replay using pixel and HTML differences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Simulating a session from a session ID, saving screenshots, and comparing the output with a base replay when one is available.
Why use it?
It helps detect visual regressions introduced by a code change during a specific user journey.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the meticulous plugin — 10 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

not rated 10repo 2d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 65 tokens original ISC

Good fit Simulating a session from a session ID, saving screenshots, and comparing the output with a base replay when one is available.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alwaysmeticulous/skills/meticulous-simulate-and-diff
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 alwaysmeticulous/skills --skill meticulous-simulate-and-diff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alwaysmeticulous/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install meticulous, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,630 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 20 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 20 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 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 $0.00065 $0.01630
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00815
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00163

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7ddd4df4f62b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

meticulous-simulate-and-diff 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 10d 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.

skills/meticulous-simulate-and-diff/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Simulate a session and analyze diffs

This skill covers running a single simulation and interpreting the results. For the simulate command's full option reference see the meticulous-cli skill's simulate reference.

Before starting, run the meticulous-cli-update skill to ensure the Meticulous CLI and skills are up to date — unless it has already run earlier in this conversation, in which case skip it.

Prerequisites

  • A sessionId to replay
  • An appUrl (local dev server, or leave blank to use the original recorded URL)
  • Optionally: a baseReplayId — the ID of a prior replay to diff screenshots against. Without this, screenshots are stored but not compared.

If you don't have a baseReplayId, you can find one from a downloaded test run:

meticulous download test-run
# Then inspect ~/.meticulous/test-runs/<testRunId>/coverage.json
# or check the testCases[].replayId fields

Step 1 — Run the simulation

With a base replay (diff mode)

meticulous simulate \
  --sessionId=<sessionId> \
  --appUrl=<url> \
  --baseReplayId=<baseReplayId> \
  --headless

Capture the full stdout. Key things to look for:

# Per-screenshot diff outcomes (one line each):
0.412% pixel mismatch for screenshot screenshot-1234.png (threshold is 0.100%) => FAIL!
0.000% pixel mismatch for screenshot screenshot-5678.png (threshold is 0.100%) => PASS

# Final summary block:
=======
View simulation at: https://app.meticulous.ai/projects/<org>/<project>/simulations/<headReplayId>
View comparison with base: https://app.meticulous.ai/projects/<org>/<project>/simulations/<baseReplayId>/compare-to/<headReplayId>
=======

If there are no FAIL! lines: the session is visually identical to the base — report no regressions, then proceed to Step 6.

Proceed to Steps 2–6 to locate and analyse any diffs, then submit feedback.

Without a base replay (quick-check mode)

If no baseReplayId is available, omit it. Screenshots are still stored locally for direct visual inspection:

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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. 10d ago First seen · 141 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 7ddd4df4f62b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

meticulous-simulate-and-diff is a skill published in the GitHub repository alwaysmeticulous/skills (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed ISC. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,630 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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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