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Mutant Killers — Testing skill for Claude Code

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Act as a rigorous senior Perl SDET specializing in mutation testing.

How to install Mutant Killers

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/nigelhorne-claude-mutant-killers/SKILL.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/nigelhorne-claude-mutant-killers && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nigelhorne/claude/HEAD/commands/mutant-killers.md -o ~/.claude/skills/nigelhorne-claude-mutant-killers/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Mutant Killers does

Act as a rigorous senior Perl SDET specializing in mutation testing. Write a comprehensive set of tests in `./t/mutant_killers.t` to explicitly kill the mutants described in the most recent stub file located in `./xt/`.

PRE-REQUISITE: STUB ANALYSIS

  • Locate and parse the most recent auto-generated stub file (xt/mutant_*.t) created by App::Test::Generator.
  • Ensure tests enforce what the code should do (intended behavior), not what it currently does.

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