stress-test

stress-test is a skill for Claude Code from DollarDill/beads-superpowers. It costs 72 tokens per session (3,155 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review process for testing a design, plan, or decision by examining its possible failure points and asking for explicit choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge an architecture, design, plan, or major decision. It proposes answers to its questions and asks the user to agree or push back.
Why use it?
It exposes weak assumptions and unresolved branches before work begins, when changing direction is easier.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the beads-superpowers plugin — 22 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to challenge an architecture, design, plan, or major decision. It proposes answers to its questions and asks the user to agree or push back.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dollardill/beads-superpowers/stress-test
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 DollarDill/beads-superpowers --skill stress-test
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DollarDill/beads-superpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install beads-superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,155 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 $0.00072 $0.03155
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01577
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00631
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00315

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0c68d6058bb2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stress-test 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/stress-test/SKILL.md · 269 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 269 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Stress Test: Adversarial Design Interrogation

Announce at start: "I'm using the stress-test skill to interrogate this design."

Purpose

Stress-test a design, plan, or decision by walking down every branch of the decision tree. For each question, provide your own recommended answer — don't just ask, propose. This forces the user to either agree explicitly or articulate why their approach is better.

This is NOT brainstorming (which creates designs) or verification (which checks implementations). This is the gap between them: "Is this design actually solid before we commit to building it?"

When to Invoke

Trigger Context
After brainstorming Stress-test the design spec before writing a plan
After writing-plans Stress-test the plan before execution begins
User says "grill me" On-demand for any document, decision, or approach
Before a major architectural decision Ensure alternatives were genuinely considered

The Process

# Create a stress-test bead
bd create "Stress-test: <topic>" -t chore -p 2 \
  --description="Adversarial review of <artifact>. Branches to interrogate: <count>"
bd update <id> --claim

Phase 1: Understand the Target

Read the design, plan, or decision document thoroughly. If no document exists, ask the user to describe the approach. Explore the codebase for context — answer your own questions from code when possible rather than asking the user.

Restore point (Mode A only): If the target artifact has uncommitted changes, commit or stash them before starting — this preserves a clean restore point before inline edits begin. In the normal flow (brainstorming → stress-test), the artifact is already committed.

Done when: the target is understood well enough to enumerate its decision branches, and (Mode A) the artifact sits at a clean restore point.

Phase 2: Map the Decision Tree

Read the full file on GitHub · 269 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 · 269 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 0c68d6058bb2

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stress-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository DollarDill/beads-superpowers (26 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 3,155 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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