crucible-audit

crucible-audit is a skill for Claude Code from nxtg-ai/forge-plugin. It costs 120 tokens per session (3,537 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A forensic review method for checking whether a test suite actually proves that software works. It looks for empty assertions, excessive mocking, skipped tests, untested code paths, and misleading coverage claims.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit tests for hollow checks, coverage exclusions, dead tests, mock-heavy tests, and entry points that no test exercises.
Why use it?
It finds false confidence hidden behind green test results or high coverage numbers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the nxtg-forge plugin — 27 skills, 23 commands, 33 agents, 3 hooks, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit tests for hollow checks, coverage exclusions, dead tests, mock-heavy tests, and entry points that no test exercises.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin/crucible-audit
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 nxtg-ai/forge-plugin --skill crucible-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nxtg-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 23 commands, 33 agents, 3 hooks, 3 MCP servers.

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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 3,537 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 122
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 $0.03537
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01768
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00707
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00354

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4b92dbf64034, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

crucible-audit 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 6d 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.

plugins/nxtg-forge/skills/crucible-audit/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CRUCIBLE Test Quality Audit

Overview

The CRUCIBLE Audit skill provides the methodology for forensic analysis of test suites. It detects test fraud — the pattern where test count and coverage numbers look healthy but the tests prove nothing about whether the software actually works.

Origin: Wolf's forensic audit of Podcast-Pipeline (2026-03-07). 1,601 tests, 77% claimed coverage — actual coverage ~15%, nothing worked when a human used it.

Language Matrix (read this BEFORE running any detection command)

The detection greps below are Python/pytest-shaped (tests/, def test_, assert x is not None). Run them unchanged against a JS/TS or Rust repo and every pattern returns 0 → a false CLEAN verdict. Always translate to the stack first. NXTG-Forge's own three repos are all non-Python.

Ecosystem Test dirs / files Test decl Hollow-assertion tells Mock tells Coverage config
Python / pytest tests/, test_*.py def test_ assert x is not None, .exists(), assert True, len >= 0/1, isinstance @patch, MagicMock, Mock() [tool.coverage.run] omit, .coveragerc
Node / vitest / jest tests/, __tests__/, *.test.{mjs,ts,tsx} it(, test( toBeDefined, toBeTruthy, not.toBeNull, expect(x).toBeDefined() vi.mock, jest.mock, vi.fn() coverage.exclude, coveragePathIgnorePatterns, collectCoverageFrom
Rust / cargo inline #[test] in src/**, tests/ #[test], #[tokio::test] assert!(x.is_some()), assert!(x.is_ok()), assert!(true) mockall, #[automock], hand-rolled stub structs tarpaulin --exclude-files, #[cfg(not(coverage))]

When $1 (the audit path) points at a repo, detect the stack first (ls for Cargo.toml / package.json / pyproject.toml), then use the matching row. Report the stack in the audit header.

The 8 Fraud Patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 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. 6d ago First seen · 226 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 4b92dbf64034

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crucible-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository nxtg-ai/forge-plugin (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 3,537 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.