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.codex/skills/mcaf-dotnet-stryker/SKILL.md

mcaf-dotnet-stryker is a skill for Codex from managedcode/dotPilot. It costs 46 tokens per session (869 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of stryker, MIT.

A guide for using Stryker.NET, a .NET tool that changes code deliberately to check whether tests detect the resulting faults. This technique is called mutation testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test critical .NET projects, measure how well their tests detect changes, and add or configure mutation testing without slowing the fastest pull-request checks unnecessarily.
Why use it?
Normal test coverage shows which lines run, but not whether tests catch broken behavior. Mutation testing reveals weak tests, especially in important code.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: installed under .codex/. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is managedcode/dotPilot's own configuration. It tells Codex how to work on dotPilot itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything dotPilot configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to managedcode/dotPilot. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/managedcode/dotPilot/main/.codex/skills/mcaf-dotnet-stryker/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/managedcode/dotPilot

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 869 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00046 $0.00869
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00348
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00087

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0d451bdf4913, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcaf-dotnet-stryker 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to stryker — 12 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.codex/skills/mcaf-dotnet-stryker/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCAF: .NET Stryker.NET

Trigger On

  • the repo uses or wants Stryker.NET
  • mutation testing is needed for high-risk code

Value

  • produce a concrete project delta: code, docs, config, tests, CI, or review artifact
  • reduce ambiguity through explicit planning, verification, and final validation skills
  • leave reusable project context so future tasks are faster and safer

Do Not Use For

  • every PR path by default in a large repo
  • simple coverage collection

Inputs

  • the nearest AGENTS.md
  • target projects and critical paths
  • time budget for mutation runs

Quick Start

  1. Read the nearest AGENTS.md and confirm scope and constraints.
  2. Run this skill's Workflow through the Ralph Loop until outcomes are acceptable.
  3. Return the Required Result Format with concrete artifacts and verification evidence.

Workflow

  1. Run mutation testing on critical projects, not blindly on the whole mono-repo.
  2. Keep it out of the fastest PR path unless the repo explicitly accepts the runtime cost.
  3. Stabilize tests first; mutation testing amplifies flaky or slow suites.

Bootstrap When Missing

If Stryker.NET is not configured yet:

  1. Detect current state:
    • rg --files -g '.config/dotnet-tools.json'
    • dotnet tool list --local
    • dotnet tool list --global
  2. Prefer local tool installation for reproducible CI:
    • dotnet new tool-manifest (if missing)
    • dotnet tool install dotnet-stryker
  3. Choose a focused target scope and mutation budget before enabling CI.
  4. Add a dedicated mutation command in AGENTS.md and CI (not in the fastest PR path by default).
  5. Run dotnet stryker on the target project and return status: configured or status: improved.
  6. If mutation testing is explicitly out of scope, return status: not_applicable.

Deliver

  • explicit mutation-test scope
  • reproducible Stryker commands

Validate

  • the selected scope is affordable in CI
  • mutation score is interpreted with test quality, not as a vanity number

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 lines

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 · 105 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 0d451bdf4913

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mcaf-dotnet-stryker is a skill published in the GitHub repository managedcode/dotPilot (25 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 869 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to stryker, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.