behaviour-equivalence

behaviour-equivalence is a skill for Claude Code from sananthanarayan/skilldrop. It costs 199 tokens per session (2,890 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A verification method for checking that a rewritten, migrated, or refactored component still behaves like the old one. It compares recorded inputs and outputs at boundaries such as HTTP requests, function calls, database writes, and events.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for safely replacing or restructuring components while comparing the old and new versions against production-shaped traffic and edge cases.
Why use it?
It helps find behavior changes that ordinary tests may miss, including differences caused by unusual inputs or nondeterministic results. A golden master is the old system's recorded behavior used as the comparison target.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the skilldrop plugin — 122 skills, 10 agents, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit It is for safely replacing or restructuring components while comparing the old and new versions against production-shaped traffic and edge cases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sananthanarayan/skilldrop/behaviour-equivalence
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 sananthanarayan/skilldrop --skill behaviour-equivalence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sananthanarayan/skilldrop

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skilldrop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 122 skills, 10 agents, 3 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for behaviour-equivalence

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for behaviour-equivalence

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 199 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,890 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 $0.00199 $0.02890
Opus 5.5 $0.00080 $0.01156
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00578
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00289

Measured 5d ago against content hash e711b33b323f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

behaviour-equivalence 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (evals/files/1/pricing_v1.py, evals/files/1/pricing_v2.py, evals/files/4/fee_calc_py2.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

packs/dev-team/skills/behaviour-equivalence/SKILL.md · 156 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 156 lines · 199 tokens per session scan A e711b33b323f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

behaviour-equivalence is a skill published in the GitHub repository sananthanarayan/skilldrop (2 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 199 tokens to every session and 2,890 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-10-21.

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