test-strength

test-strength is a skill for Codex from buildfastwithai/gen-ai-experiments. It costs 52 tokens per session (543 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for checking how well Python tests catch changes in program behavior. It makes small, deliberate changes to changed code and checks whether the tests fail as they should.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess pytest coverage of changed Python code, examine missed behaviors, and propose or verify targeted tests.
Why use it?
A test suite can pass while missing important behavior; this audit reveals gaps when altered code is not detected.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to assess pytest coverage of changed Python code, examine missed behaviors, and propose or verify targeted tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/buildfastwithai/gen-ai-experiments/test-strength-codex-test-strength
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add buildfastwithai/gen-ai-experiments --skill test-strength-codex-test-strength
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/buildfastwithai/gen-ai-experiments

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 543 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
  • 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 $0.00052 $0.00543
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00271
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00054

Measured 9d ago against content hash e3255f522233, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-strength 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 13 executable files (fixtures/strong/auth.py, fixtures/strong/billing.py, fixtures/strong/calc.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/test-strength-codex-test-strength/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Test Strength

Run the bundled runner from the repository being assessed. Keep the repository working tree unchanged: the runner copies it to a temporary directory before each mutant run.

Run the audit

  1. Confirm that Python and pytest are available. Run from the target repository root.

  2. Run the bundled script, using its absolute skill path:

    python <skill-path>\scripts\strength.py [--base <ref>] [path]
    

    Omit both arguments to compare the current worktree with the merge-base of the default branch. Use --base main (or a commit) to choose the diff base. Pass an optional file or directory path to limit which changed Python production files are mutated.

  3. Read strength_report.json in the target repository root. Treat a killed mutant as behavior caught by the suite and a survived mutant as behavior that the suite did not catch. The runner executes the full test suite for every mutant so indirect, fixture-based, and integration coverage are included.

Analyze survivors

For each item in survived_mutants:

  1. Inspect its diff and decide whether it changes observable behavior for valid inputs.

  2. Discard only genuinely equivalent mutants; state why they are equivalent.

  3. For every real survivor, add one focused test that passes on the original code and fails for the mutant.

  4. Verify that test before suggesting it:

    pytest <temporary-test-file>
    python <skill-path>\scripts\strength.py verify "<mutant-id>" <temporary-test-file>
    

    The first command must pass. The verification command must print VERIFICATION SUCCESS and exit with code 0. Remove the temporary verification file afterward unless the user asks to keep it.

Report results

Use this structure and include only real survivors:

<Total Tests> tests | <Total Mutants> mutants across <Changed Functions Count> changed functions
<Killed Count> killed | <Survived Count> survived | <Equivalent Count> equivalent (discarded)

### SURVIVED

#### <File Path>:<Line Number> <Function Name>
`<Original Expression>` -> `<Mutated Expression>`

Reason for survival: <why the current tests miss this behavior>

Suggested test:
```diff
+ <verified test change>

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 9d ago First seen · 59 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A e3255f522233

Subscribe to this mod's changes

test-strength is a skill published in the GitHub repository buildfastwithai/gen-ai-experiments (763 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 543 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 2026-08-30.

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