test-driven-development

test-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from a5c-ai/babysitter. It costs 35 tokens per session (359 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A strict test-first method for writing and fixing code. TDD, or test-driven development, means writing a failing test, making it pass, and then improving the code without changing its behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding features or fixing bugs: write the failing test first, run tests in a non-watching mode, implement the change, and then clean up the code while keeping the tests passing.
Why use it?
It prevents tests from being skipped or postponed and records test results, including exit codes, so failures are visible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/a5c-ai/babysitter/test-driven-development
Any agent
npx skills add a5c-ai/babysitter --skill test-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 359 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 $0.00035 $0.00359
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00036

Measured 4d ago against content hash 95a11c9ea167, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

test-driven-development 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 4d 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.

library/methodologies/cc10x/skills/test-driven-development/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Non-Negotiable Rules

  • Always use run mode (CI=true npm test or --run flag)
  • NEVER use watch mode (prevents hanging processes)
  • Use timeout guards (timeout 60s) as backup
  • Record exit codes as evidence at each phase
  • If tests fail 3 consecutive times in GREEN, report failure status
  • Never skip RED phase (failing test must exist before implementation)
  • Never defer tests to "later" -- TDD means tests first

Scope Discipline

  • If implementation requires >3 file changes, flag for scope review
  • Architectural choices require user approval unless pre-approved in plan
  • New dependencies require user approval

When to Use

  • Every feature implementation in BUILD workflow
  • Every bug fix in DEBUG workflow (regression test)

Agents Used

  • component-builder (primary consumer)
  • bug-investigator (regression tests)
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago First seen · 41 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 95a11c9ea167

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test-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository a5c-ai/babysitter (1,765 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 359 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 2026-08-30.

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