tdd-dev

tdd-dev is a plugin for Claude Code from hculap/better-code. Its manifest loads nothing; the 1 skill, 5 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks it bundles cost 760 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A development add-on that applies test-driven development, or TDD: write a failing test, make it pass, then improve the code. It is intended for Claude Code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want development work to follow the Red–Green–Refactor process.
Why use it?
It enforces a repeatable testing cycle so code changes are checked by tests as they are developed.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when you want development work to follow the Red–Green–Refactor process.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add hculap/better-code
/plugin install tdd-dev
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/hculap/better-code

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill, 5 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks cost 760 tokens a session between them.
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.
Security

Grade A, and why

tdd-dev 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 6d 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.

plugins/tdd-dev/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 16 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "tdd-dev",
  "version": "0.2.2",
  "description": "Transform Claude Code into a strict TDD practitioner that enforces Red→Green→Refactor cycles",
  "author": {
    "name": "Szymon Paluch"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/hculap/better-code",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/hculap/better-code#readme",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["tdd", "test-driven-development", "testing", "red-green-refactor", "quality"],
  "agents": [
    "./agents/tdd-developer.md"
  ]
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill, 5 commands, 1 agent, 3 hooks travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 760 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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. 6d ago Changed c9617c20439d
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 16 lines scan A 8f1e0c6fa25e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tdd-dev is a plugin published in the GitHub repository hculap/better-code (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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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