tdd-workflow

tdd-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from affaan-m/ECC. It costs 43 tokens per session (3,343 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test-driven development workflow, where tests are written before the implementation. It covers unit tests for small pieces, integration tests for connected parts, and end-to-end tests for complete user flows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding features, fixing bugs, refactoring code, creating API endpoints, or building components.
Why use it?
It makes expected behavior and failure cases explicit while code is being changed, with a stated minimum of 80% test coverage.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Not installable on its own: it runs a file from its repository that does not travel with it. Clone the repository, or install whatever ships that file. The line is node scripts/setup-package-manager.js --detect.

Part of the ecc plugin — 70 skills, 56 commands, 68 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

About the project

ECC is a toolkit that organizes and improves how coding agents work through skills, memory, security checks, research practices, and related extensions. It is for developers using agents such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Cursor.

affaan-m/ECC · 250,130 stars · on GitHub · ecc.tools

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add affaan-m/ECC
Claude Code
/plugin install ecc

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ecc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 70 skills, 56 commands, 68 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,343 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 $0.00043 $0.03343
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01672
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00669
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00334

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5a8868418170, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tdd-workflow 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/tdd-workflow/SKILL.md · 467 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 467 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Test-Driven Development Workflow

This skill ensures all code development follows TDD principles with comprehensive test coverage.

When to Activate

  • Writing new features or functionality
  • Fixing bugs or issues
  • Refactoring existing code
  • Adding API endpoints
  • Creating new components

Core Principles

1. Tests BEFORE Code

ALWAYS write tests first, then implement code to make tests pass.

2. Coverage Requirements

  • Minimum 80% coverage (unit + integration + E2E)
  • All edge cases covered
  • Error scenarios tested
  • Boundary conditions verified

3. Test Types

Unit Tests
  • Individual functions and utilities
  • Component logic
  • Pure functions
  • Helpers and utilities
Integration Tests
  • API endpoints
  • Database operations
  • Service interactions
  • External API calls
E2E Tests (Playwright)
  • Critical user flows
  • Complete workflows
  • Browser automation
  • UI interactions

TDD Workflow Steps

Step 0: Detect the Test Runner

Do not assume npm test. The commands in the steps and examples below use <test>, <test-watch>, and <coverage> as placeholders for the project's actual runner. Resolve them once before starting:

  1. Run the package-manager detector (ships with ECC):

    node scripts/setup-package-manager.js --detect
    

    It resolves the package manager (npm / pnpm / yarn / bun) from, in order: CLAUDE_PACKAGE_MANAGER, .claude/package-manager.json, the package.json packageManager field, the lockfile, then global config.

  2. Distinguish the package manager from the test runner — they are not the same. A project can use Bun to install dependencies yet still run Jest or Vitest. Inspect package.json scripts.test and the test files:

    • scripts.test invokes jest / vitest -> run through the detected PM (npm test, pnpm test, yarn test, or bun run test).
    • scripts.test is bun test, or test files import { test, expect } from "bun:test", or there is no jest/vitest config but Bun is present -> use Bun's native runner (bun test). See Bun Native Test Pattern below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 467 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 467 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 5a8868418170

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tdd-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository affaan-m/ECC (250,130 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 3,343 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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