unit-tests-tdd

Rules for test-driven development, or TDD: write a failing test, make it pass, then improve the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing behavior, especially when listing, copying, moving, deleting, or watching files across operating systems.
Why use it?
They reduce behavior regressions and keep risky file operations tested in isolated temporary environments.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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 rules/arxdsilva/vault/unit-tests-tdd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arxdsilva/vault

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 427 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 427 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00427 $0.00427
Opus 5 $0.00214 $0.00214
Sonnet 5 $0.00085 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00043 $0.00043

Measured 3d ago against content hash a57cbfc5afa1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

unit-tests-tdd 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 3d 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.

.cursor/rules/unit-tests-tdd.mdc · 47 lines

What it actually says

Unit Tests & TDD

TDD (behavior changes)

For adding or changing behavior: failing unit test first → implement → refactor. Do not land production code without a red→green cycle.

File-system tests are the risky ones

File operations (list, search, copy, move, delete, watch) are where bugs cost real user data. Test these against a temp directory / in-memory fake, never the user's real file system or fixed paths on the host machine.

  • Prefer an isolated temp directory per test (created and torn down by the test itself).
  • Cover destructive paths explicitly: missing file, permission denied, file in use, cross-volume move, symlink/junction edge cases.
  • Platform-specific behavior (trash semantics, path separators, case sensitivity) gets tested against the adapter for that OS (see architecture.mdc), not asserted generically.

Placement & isolation

  • Go: co-located <source>_test.go; build fixtures with t.TempDir(), never a fixed path.
  • Frontend (React/TS): co-locate *.test.ts(x) next to the component/module under test.
  • No network access; no dependency on the host machine's real file layout or environment.
  • Per docs/SPEC.md §9: unit tests are required for the frecency ranker and path utilities; at least one e2e smoke test covers launch → search → open → preview.

Style

  • Table-driven where the stack supports it, with a clear name/description per case; assert one key outcome per case.
  • Parallelize test cases only when they share no mutable state (e.g. don't share a temp directory across parallel cases).

Coverage

Keep touched areas well covered (aim ≥80%); every behavior change ships with a test.

go test -race -cover ./...
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. 3d ago First seen · 47 lines · 427 tokens per session scan A a57cbfc5afa1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

unit-tests-tdd is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository arxdsilva/vault (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 427 tokens to every session, about $0.0021 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.