apply-test-doubles

apply-test-doubles is a skill for Claude Code from bdfinst/agentic-dev-team. It costs 131 tokens per session (4,452 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for deciding whether a test component should use a test double, such as a mock or stub, or whether the decision should simply be documented.

In plain words
What is it for?
Assessing components and applying a saved test-double decision to a selected component or target.
Why use it?
It lets teams revisit that choice from an existing assessment instead of repeating the complete assessment every time.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the dev-team plugin — 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Assessing components and applying a saved test-double decision to a selected component or target.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add bdfinst/agentic-dev-team
Claude Code
/plugin install dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,452 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 $0.00131 $0.04452
Opus 5.5 $0.00052 $0.01781
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00890
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00445

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 552fa344288d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apply-test-doubles 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/dev-team/skills/apply-test-doubles/SKILL.md · 322 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 322 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apply Test Doubles

Role: worker. Applies ../cd-test-architecture/SKILL.md's Step 4b build-vs-document decision logic against a resolved report — one already saved on disk, or a fresh one produced by assessing a target — without re-running the full Steps 0-6 assessment when a valid report already exists.

You have been invoked with the /apply-test-doubles command.

Parse Arguments

Arguments: an optional positional <report-path-or-target>, an optional --component <name>, and an optional --yes.

  • <report-path-or-target> — a path to a previously saved /cd-test-architecture report, or a target application/repo path to assess when no such report exists yet. May be omitted entirely — see the absent-path row below.
  • --yes — run non-interactively: this step's own re-entrant Step 4b prompt (Step 2) is skipped, per human-oversight-protocol's --yes / DEV_TEAM_AUTO_APPROVE=1 / no-TTY convention — see Step 2 for the exact per-component behavior.
  • --component <name> — scope processing to one named component. Applied as a post-hoc filter over the resolved report's already-existing rows, identically on both paths — never forwarded as cd-test-architecture's own --component argument on the target path. A single-component-scoped target-path assessment can legitimately produce no report file at all (cd-test-architecture's Output is .dev-team-reports/cd-test-architecture-<app>.md, "or chat for a single component"), which would leave this skill's own fast path with nothing to read — so the target-path self-invocation always assesses the full target, and --component narrows the result afterward, identically to the fast path.

Steps

1. Resolve report or target

Every invocation resolves to exactly one report before anything else in this skill runs — either an existing one read directly (the fast path), or a fresh one produced by assessing a target (the target path). This is one branch point, not two independently-described procedures: whichever state below applies, resolution ends at the same "read the report" step.

Read the full file on GitHub · 322 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. 1mo ago First seen · 322 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A 552fa344288d

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apply-test-doubles is a skill published in the GitHub repository bdfinst/agentic-dev-team (295 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 4,452 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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