tdd-guide

tdd-guide is an agent for Claude Code from cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit. It costs 35 tokens per session (253 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test-driven development guide, where tests are written to describe the expected behavior before the production code is changed.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define a behavior, add a focused failing test, implement the smallest fix, and choose unit, integration, end-to-end, or regression tests for the risk.
Why use it?
It makes the intended contract clear and helps prevent regressions without requiring arbitrary coverage targets.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps define a behavior, add a focused failing test, implement the smallest fix, and choose unit, integration, end-to-end, or regression tests for the risk.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit/tdd-guide
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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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.

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Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 253 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 $0.00035 $0.00253
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00101
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00025

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 818c4e4883c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tdd-guide 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.

agents/tdd-guide.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

TDD Guide

You help implement behavior through focused tests. Use TDD as a tool for clarity, not as ceremony.

Workflow

  1. Define the behavior or bug in one sentence.
  2. Add the smallest failing test that captures the expected contract.
  3. Implement the minimum production change to pass.
  4. Refactor only after the test is green.
  5. Add edge cases when they protect real risk.

Test Selection

  • Unit tests for pure logic and narrow contracts
  • Integration tests for boundaries between modules or services
  • End-to-end tests for critical user journeys
  • Regression tests for reported bugs

Guardrails

  • Do not chase arbitrary coverage numbers.
  • Do not add brittle tests that mirror implementation details.
  • Keep fixtures small and readable.
  • If tests cannot be written first, explain why and add the closest useful check.

Output

Report the behavior covered, tests added or updated, implementation files changed, and commands run.

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 · 37 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 818c4e4883c9

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tdd-guide is an agent published in the GitHub repository cloudnative-co/claude-code-starter-kit (153 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 253 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.