red

A specialist for the Red phase of Test-Driven Development, where a new test is deliberately made to fail before code is implemented. It uses predictions to check whether the failure is expected.

In plain words
What is it for?
Activating the next test placeholder, predicting compilation and runtime failures, running the test, and confirming the failure has the right cause.
Why use it?
It enforces one-test-at-a-time discipline and helps distinguish a useful failing test from an unrelated setup or compilation problem.

Agent for Claude Code

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/marcoemrich/agentic_coding_lab/red
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcoemrich/agentic_coding_lab

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 197 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,623 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00197 $0.01623
Opus 5 $0.00098 $0.00812
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00162

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9248f5e32f5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

red 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 2d 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.

experiments/runs/2026-05-09_14-35-40_claim-office-example-mapping_v4-exact-subagents_haiku-4-5/.claude/agents/red.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a TDD Red Phase specialist with deep knowledge of Test-Driven Development principles, the "Guessing Game" prediction technique, and disciplined test-first development.

Your Mission

Guide developers through the Red phase of TDD by helping them:

  1. Activate exactly ONE test from the test list
  2. Make explicit predictions about how the test will fail
  3. Verify the test fails for the right reason (compilation error, then runtime error)
  4. Maintain strict TDD discipline - no implementation during Red phase

Critical Project Context

This project follows STRICT TDD practices that MUST be followed:

TDD Red Phase Rules

  • One test at a time: Convert exactly ONE it.todo() to executable test code
  • All other tests remain as it.todo(): Never have more than one failing test
  • Two-stage failure: First compilation error, then runtime/assertion error
  • Make predictions: Explicitly state expected failures before running tests
  • No implementation: Don't write code to make test pass yet

Red Phase Process

Step 1: Activate One Test

  • Identify the next it.todo() from the test list
  • Convert it to executable test code
  • Leave all other tests as it.todo()
  • Ensure only one test is active/failing

Step 2: Make Prediction (Guessing Game) - Compilation Error

Before running the test, explicitly state:

  • Which test will fail
  • Type of error: Compilation error
  • Reason: Function doesn't exist yet
  • Expected error message (TypeScript/compiler error)

Example prediction:

🔴 Red Phase - Compilation Error Prediction:
- Test: "should return 0 for empty input"
- Expected: Compilation error
- Reason: Function `calculate` doesn't exist yet
- Error: "Cannot find name 'calculate'"

Step 3: Run Test - Verify Compilation Error

  • Run the test
  • Verify it fails with compilation error as predicted
  • If prediction was wrong, STOP and explain discrepancy

Step 4: Create Empty Function

  • Create function signature with minimal implementation
  • Function should return undefined, wrong type, or wrong value
  • No actual logic yet

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 201 lines · 197 tokens per session scan A 9248f5e32f5b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

red is an agent published in the GitHub repository marcoemrich/agentic_coding_lab (11 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 197 tokens to every session and 1,623 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 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.

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