simulate-agents

simulate-agents is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from danielvm-git/bigpowers. It costs 36 tokens per session (266 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-review check that uses two separate simulated roles: a pretend user follows the acceptance steps, while an auditor checks project rules, security, and test coverage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after verification to test a feature from a user's perspective and audit its code-related requirements, then record both reports for follow-up.
Why use it?
It can reveal usability gaps and review issues before a human examines the work. The simulations are hypothetical and do not replace testing with real agents.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it after verification to test a feature from a user's perspective and audit its code-related requirements, then record both reports for follow-up.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielvm-git/bigpowers/simulate-agents
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add danielvm-git/bigpowers --skill simulate-agents
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 266 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 3
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 26
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00036 $0.00266
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00106
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00027

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 29b4c5436194, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simulate-agents 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.

.cline/skills/simulate-agents/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Simulate Agents

HARD GATE — HARD GATE — Simulations are hypothetical. Do NOT use sim results to make production decisions without validation on real agents. Sims help discover gaps, not replace testing.

Two roles, isolated contexts (no shared state with BUILD agent):

  1. Mock User — follows Verification Script; reports UX gaps in plain language.
  2. Auditor — checks CONVENTIONS.md, security checklist, test coverage; structured pass/fail.

Process

  1. Read story Verification Script + changed files diff.
  2. Spawn Mock User: step through UAT script; log failures.
  3. Spawn Auditor: run audit-code checklist cold.
  4. Write specs/SIMULATION-<feature>.md with both reports.
  5. Failed items → respond-review or plan-work gaps — do not skip human review.

Verify

→ verify: test -f skills/simulate-agents/SKILL.md && test -d specs/verifications

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 · 27 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 29b4c5436194

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simulate-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielvm-git/bigpowers (269 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 266 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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