mutation-test

mutation-test is a skill for Claude Code from uqeu/estelle-cli. It costs 0 tokens per session (275 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A testing method that deliberately makes small changes to code, such as flipping an operator or changing a boundary, and checks whether the test suite notices. Each unchanged test result reveals a possible gap in the tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess tests for important logic, add assertions for undetected faults, and report test effectiveness alongside coverage.
Why use it?
Code coverage only shows that code ran; it does not show whether tests checked its behavior. Mutation testing finds tests that pass while failing to detect realistic bugs.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the estelle plugin — 26 skills, 4 agents, 9 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess tests for important logic, add assertions for undetected faults, and report test effectiveness alongside coverage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uqeu/estelle-cli/mutation-test
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add uqeu/estelle-cli --skill mutation-test
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uqeu/estelle-cli

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install estelle, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 4 agents, 9 hooks.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 275 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 $0.00000 $0.00275
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00110
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00028

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 73a83582d1f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mutation-test 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.

estelle-plugin/skills/mutation-test/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

mutation-test

A state-of-the-art engineering playbook, drawn from Google 'State of Mutation Testing at Google' / PIT, that an agent grounding in a real repo can execute. Every referenced symbol is checked by Estelle's grounding gate like any other code.

When to run

Before trusting a green suite / high coverage as real safety — especially on critical logic where a passing-but-vacuous test would hide a bug.

Procedure

  1. Run a mutation tool (mutmut/cosmic-ray for Python) on the target module: it flips operators, boundaries, and returns.
  2. A SURVIVING mutant = a fault the suite didn't catch = a missing assertion. Rank survivors by how central the mutated line is.
  3. Write the assertion that kills each high-value survivor; ignore equivalent mutants.
  4. Report the mutation score alongside coverage — coverage says 'executed', mutation says 'checked'.

Grounding note

Apply this to the caller's ACTUAL code (the code graph + real symbols), not a generic template — the value is a concrete, verifiable change on their repo, not advice.

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 · 21 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 73a83582d1f8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mutation-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository uqeu/estelle-cli (0 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 275 tokens. 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 2026-09-12.

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