Mutants — Testing skill for Claude Code
Mutation-test changed files; strengthen tests until zero survivors.
How to install Mutants
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/minikin-keeler-mutants/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/minikin-keeler-mutants && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minikin/keeler/HEAD/commands/mutants.md -o ~/.claude/skills/minikin-keeler-mutants/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Mutants does
description: Mutation-test changed files; strengthen tests until zero survivors argument-hint:
Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/keeler.md` before anything else — the workflow rules this command is a stage of. Then read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/gates.md`: this is the last row of its gate table, and no task is done with a row above it red.
Target: $ARGUMENTS (if empty, run `keeler mutants-diff` for files changed vs HEAD; with a file argument, `kee
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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