mutation-testing-advisor

mutation-testing-advisor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from codebygarv/Ai-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (357 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An assessment of how well a test suite detects deliberately introduced code mistakes, called mutations. Examples include changing a comparison, removing a function call, or altering a returned value.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review mutation-testing results, investigate surviving mutants, strengthen assertions, and assess critical packages with tools such as Stryker or Mutmut.
Why use it?
It reveals tests that pass even when important logic is broken, exposing false confidence that line coverage alone can hide. It points to weak or vague assertions that need improvement.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review mutation-testing results, investigate surviving mutants, strengthen assertions, and assess critical packages with tools such as Stryker or Mutmut.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/codebygarv/ai-skills/mutation-testing-advisor
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 codebygarv/Ai-skills --skill mutation-testing-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codebygarv/Ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 357 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 $0.00024 $0.00357
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00036

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7f37a4a63841, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mutation-testing-advisor 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 5d 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/testing/mutation-testing-advisor/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Purpose

Evaluate the true fault-detection capability of a test suite by simulating code mutations (inverting conditionals, altering arithmetic, removing function calls) and highlighting tests that pass despite broken logic.

When to Use

  • A codebase has 90%+ line coverage but bugs still regularly slip into production.
  • Reviewing unit tests that assert on execution without verifying state changes.
  • Setting up Stryker or Mutmut mutation testing in critical packages.

What to Analyze

  1. Mutant Categories:
    • Conditional Boundary Mutations (> swapped for >=).
    • Inverted Logic (if (isValid) swapped for if (!isValid)).
    • Return Value Mutations (returning null or undefined).
    • Statement Deletions (removing side-effect calls).
  2. Surviving Mutants: Why didn't any test fail when this line was corrupted?
  3. Weak Assertion Diagnosis: Identifying tests with no expect() or vague assertions (e.g. expect(res).toBeDefined()).
  4. Targeted Assertion Improvements: Writing specific assertions that kill surviving mutants.

Output Format

  • Mutation Score Assessment: High-risk areas of false test confidence.
  • Surviving Mutant Table: [File | Mutation | Why Test Passed | Fix].
  • Hardened Test Code: Rewritten unit tests with strict state and error assertions.

Avoid

  • Chasing 100% line coverage while leaving assertions superficial.
  • Testing mock implementation details instead of real behavior.
Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 37 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 7f37a4a63841

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mutation-testing-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository codebygarv/Ai-skills (25 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 357 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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