mutation-testing-python

mutation-testing-python is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from eferro/augmentedcode-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (5,602 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A Python testing method that changes code in small ways to check whether tests notice the changes. It uses mutmut and can support TDD, a practice of writing tests while developing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding missing tests in Python code, checking how well pytest tests protect the code, strengthening test suites, and reviewing TDD workflows.
Why use it?
It reveals tests that pass but fail to detect realistic mistakes, showing where a test suite is weak or incomplete.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Finding missing tests in Python code, checking how well pytest tests protect the code, strengthening test suites, and reviewing TDD workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/eferro/augmentedcode-skills/mutation-testing-python
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add eferro/augmentedcode-skills --skill mutation-testing-python
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eferro/augmentedcode-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,602 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 unknown 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 $0.00043 $0.05602
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.02241
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.01120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00560

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1eab727c6ef2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mutation-testing-python 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.

mutation-testing-python/SKILL.md · 755 lines

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No licence file

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Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 755 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 1eab727c6ef2

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mutation-testing-python is a skill published in the GitHub repository eferro/augmentedcode-skills (24 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 5,602 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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