do-test-first

A test-first development rule: write tests that describe the expected behavior before implementing the code. It uses the red-green cycle, where a failing test guides the implementation and a passing test confirms it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building methods, APIs, integrations, or end-to-end features, with tests placed in the appropriate test directory and mocks avoided where possible.
Why use it?
It prevents unfinished code from being treated as complete and checks both successful results and failures. It also organizes tests by scope, from individual methods to full user flows.

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/featurefactory-io/mimir/do-test-first
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FeatureFactory-io/mimir

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 271 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 $0.00000 $0.00271
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00135
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00027

Measured 2d ago against content hash e93f7ef72dec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

do-test-first 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.

.cursor/rules/do-test-first.mdc · 25 lines

What it actually says

Tests prove behavior. You cannot claim a scenario, class, or method is implemented until tests pass.

  • New code structure: follow .windsurf/rules/do-skeletons-first.md (docstrings, types, stubs).
  • Write tests before implementation. Do not write tests whose only purpose is to hit NotImplementedError—write assertions that should pass once real behavior exists.
  • Cover success (returns) and failure (raises, errors, edge cases) for each unit of behavior.
  • If implementation contradicts docstring, ask the user which wins.
  • Use docs/features/ to align scenarios with tests.
  • Order: method-level → API → integration. For integration, follow .windsurf/rules/do-not-mock-in-integration-tests.md.
  • Red–green: make the test fail, then implement until green.
  • Use pytest; avoid mocks unless unavoidable.

Layout (never put tests in repo root):

Kind Path
Unit tests/unit/
Integration tests/integration/
API tests/api/
E2E tests/e2e/
Service tests/services/
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 · 25 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e93f7ef72dec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

do-test-first is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository FeatureFactory-io/mimir (13 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 271 tokens. 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.