encodelib.py is a Python library which implements some handy SSH-2
encoding primitives; samplekex.py uses that to fabricate the start of
an SSH connection, up to the point where key exchange totally fails
its crypto.
The idea is that you adapt samplekex.py to construct initial-kex
sequences with particular properties, in order to test robustness and
security fixes that affect the initial-kex sequence. For example, I
used an adaptation of this to test the Diffie-Hellman range check
that's just gone into 0.64.