load-testing

load-testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from int2t05/engineering-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,483 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to measure how much traffic a system can handle before it slows down or fails. It sends realistic or deliberately difficult workloads and observes saturation, errors, and scaling behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before launch, after major architecture or dependency changes, when data or traffic grows, or when setting service targets such as response time and error rate.
Why use it?
It reveals capacity limits before real users encounter them and tests whether scaling rules and capacity expectations hold.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the engineering-skills plugin — 47 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

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/int2t05/engineering-skills/load-testing
Any agent
npx skills add int2t05/engineering-skills --skill load-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/int2t05/engineering-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install engineering-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 47 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,483 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 $0.00065 $0.01483
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00741
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00297
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00148

Measured 3d ago against content hash e201b59c75d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

load-testing 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 3d 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/06-test/load-testing/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Load Testing

performance fixes measured slowness after it appears. Load testing finds the breaking point before users do — generate realistic and adversarial traffic, characterize how the system saturates, and validate that autoscaling and capacity claims hold. This is proactive capacity validation, a distinct discipline from reactive optimization.

When to use

  • Before launch: validate the system handles expected and peak traffic
  • After a major change: new endpoint, architecture shift, dependency swap, data growth
  • Setting or validating SLOs (p99 latency, error rate under load)
  • Validating autoscaling rules and capacity headroom
  • Triggers on "load test", "stress test", "capacity", "k6", "Locust", "wrk", "压测", "压力测试", "容量测试"

Not for: fixing a known performance bottleneck (use performance); unit/integration/e2e correctness tests (use tdd / api-testing / e2e-testing). Load testing answers "how much can it handle," not "does it work" or "why is it slow."

Steps

1. Define capacity goals

State the targets before generating load — without them, a load test produces numbers without judgment. Extract from SLOs, business expectations, or historical peak:

  • Expected steady-state load (RPS, concurrent users)
  • Peak load (2–10× steady state, sustained for how long)
  • Acceptable p99 latency and error rate under target load
  • The "break" threshold: the point past which the system is considered failed

Verify: goals are written as numbers with units, not "should handle traffic."

2. Design realistic traffic profiles

Load is only meaningful if it resembles real usage. Model the traffic mix from production analytics or expected user journeys:

  • Read/write ratio matching real usage (not 100% reads)
  • Geo distribution and connection patterns (keep-alive, new connections)
  • Think time / pacing between requests (humans don't hammer at max RPS)
  • Payload variety: don't test only the smallest payload — include the 95th-percentile size
  • Authentication and session lifecycle (don't skip login cost)

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 3d ago First seen · 125 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A e201b59c75d6

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load-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository int2t05/engineering-skills (3 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,483 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 2026-08-31.