test-doubles-mocking

test-doubles-mocking is a skill for Claude Code from gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform. It costs 120 tokens per session (328 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to test doubles: replacement objects used in tests, including fakes with working in-memory behavior, stubs with fixed answers, and mocks that verify interactions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test repositories, clocks, event buses, and HTTP clients without relying on a real database, clock, message system, or remote service.
Why use it?
It helps tests avoid unnecessary dependencies while reducing fragile mocks that merely copy the implementation. The right replacement makes tests clearer and more reliable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the gerard plugin — 53 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to test repositories, clocks, event buses, and HTTP clients without relying on a real database, clock, message system, or remote service.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform/test-doubles-mocking
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 gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform --skill test-doubles-mocking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gerard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 328 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 $0.00120 $0.00328
Opus 5.5 $0.00048 $0.00131
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00033

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6980ec8dd66b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-doubles-mocking 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.

skills/test-doubles-mocking/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Test Doubles Mocking (Symfony)

Use when

  • Building regression-safe behavior with TDD/functional/e2e tests.
  • Converting bug reports into executable failing tests.

Default workflow

  1. Write failing test for target behavior and one boundary case.
  2. Implement minimal code to pass.
  3. Refactor while preserving green suite.
  4. Broaden coverage for invalid/unauthorized/not-found paths.

Guardrails

  • Prefer deterministic fixtures/builders.
  • Assert observable behavior, not internal implementation.
  • Keep tests isolated and stable in CI.

Progressive disclosure

  • Use this file for execution posture and risk controls.
  • Open references when deep implementation details are needed.

Output contract

  • RED/GREEN/REFACTOR trace.
  • Test files changed and executed commands.
  • Coverage and confidence notes.

References

  • reference.md
  • docs/complexity-tiers.md
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 · 40 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6980ec8dd66b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

test-doubles-mocking is a skill published in the GitHub repository gerard-labs/superpowers-api-platform (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 328 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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