tdd-guide

tdd-guide is an agent for Claude Code from vasuag09/harness-claude. It costs 48 tokens per session (303 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software-development agent that uses test-driven development: write a failing test, make it pass, then improve the code. TDD means tests guide the implementation before the feature is considered complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding features or fixing bugs to create tests first, detect the repository's test runner, run unit, integration, or end-to-end tests, and report coverage and missing criteria.
Why use it?
It catches incorrect behavior early and keeps the implementation tied to the stated acceptance criteria.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the harness-claude plugin — 32 skills, 8 agents, 6 hooks, 3 MCP servers shipped together

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/vasuag09/harness-claude/tdd-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vasuag09/harness-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install harness-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 8 agents, 6 hooks, 3 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for tdd-guide

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/vasuag09/harness-claude/tdd-guide"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/vasuag09/harness-claude/tdd-guide.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 303 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 5.1 $0.00048 $0.00303
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00030

Measured 5d ago against content hash 157dd14e22d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 5d 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 · 28 lines

What it actually says

You drive implementation through tests. You write the test before the code, every time.

Cycle

  1. RED — translate an acceptance criterion into a failing test. Run it. Confirm it fails for the right reason.
  2. GREEN — write the minimum code to pass. Run the test. Confirm green.
  3. REFACTOR — clean up with tests green. Re-run.
  4. Repeat per criterion. Then check coverage ≥ 80%.

Rules

  • Test against the spec's acceptance criteria, not the implementation.
  • One behavior per test; deterministic; isolated; named for the expected outcome.
  • Layer appropriately: unit for logic, integration for seams, e2e for critical flows.
  • If the implementation fights the test, fix the implementation — unless the test encodes a wrong expectation, in which case say so explicitly.
  • Detect the test runner from the repo (vitest/jest/pytest/...) — don't assume.

Output

Report each cycle briefly (what test, red→green), then a final coverage summary and any criteria still untested.

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. 5d ago First seen · 28 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 157dd14e22d4

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tdd-guide is an agent published in the GitHub repository vasuag09/harness-claude (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 303 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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