soak-test

soak-test is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,366 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A protocol for testing a game during an extended play session. It tracks problems that appear only after repeated play, such as memory leaks, slowing performance, accumulated state errors, repetitive gameplay, or exhausted content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during polishing, before release checks, or after fixing stability problems to define what to observe and record over 30 minutes to several hours.
Why use it?
Short tests can miss issues that emerge over time. A soak test, also called an endurance test, helps reveal failures caused by sustained use.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Claude Code Game Studios is a setup that organizes Claude Code into a coordinated game-development team of specialized AI agents. It supports game projects across design, programming, art, audio, narrative, quality assurance, and production, with skills and workflows for coordinating that work.

Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios · 24,822 stars · on GitHub

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/donchitos/claude-code-game-studios/soak-test
Any agent
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill soak-test
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,366 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00054 $0.02366
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01183
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00473
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00237

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9f090f0e3957, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

soak-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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/soak-test/SKILL.md · 285 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 285 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Soak Test

A soak test (also called an endurance test) is an extended play session run with specific observation goals. Unlike a smoke check (broad critical path, ~10 min) or a single-feature playtest (~30 min), a soak test runs for 30 minutes to several hours to surface:

  • Memory leaks — gradual heap growth that only appears after scene transitions
  • Performance drift — frame time degradation that worsens over time
  • State accumulation bugs — issues that only appear after N repetitions of a mechanic (inventory full, score overflow, AI state corruption)
  • Fun fatigue — mechanics that feel good in a first session but grow repetitive over extended play
  • Content exhaustion — the point where players run out of novel content

This skill generates the observation protocol and analysis harness — the human does the actual playing.

Output: production/qa/soak-test-[date]-[duration].md

When to run:

  • Polish phase — before /gate-check release
  • After fixing a memory or stability issue (regression soak)
  • When extended play has not been formally tracked

1. Parse Arguments

Duration (default: 1h):

  • 30m — short soak; suitable for testing a single mechanic or scene
  • 1h — standard soak; covers most common leak categories
  • 2h — extended soak; recommended for first full Polish soak
  • 4h — deep soak; required for games with long session design (RPGs, sims)

Focus (default: all):

  • memory — focus on heap size, object count, leak patterns
  • stability — focus on crash/freeze/hang detection
  • balance — focus on fun fatigue, content exhaustion, difficulty perception
  • all — all of the above

2. Load Context

Read:

  • .claude/docs/technical-preferences.md — engine (for engine-specific memory monitoring guidance), performance budgets (memory ceiling, target FPS)
  • design/gdd/game-concept.md — intended session length (for comparison against soak duration), core loop description
  • Most recent file in production/playtests/ — prior playtest findings (to avoid re-documenting known issues)
  • Most recent file in production/qa/qa-plan-*.md — current sprint test coverage (to understand what has been formally tested vs. what the soak covers)

Read the full file on GitHub · 285 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. 2d ago First seen · 285 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 9f090f0e3957

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soak-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios (24,822 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,366 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 2026-09-03.

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