tdd

tdd is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aldianriski/lean-flow. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,293 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test-first development guide that builds new behaviour through repeated cycles of writing one test, implementing the smallest change, and then improving the code. TDD means test-driven development.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding new features, business rules, APIs, or tool wrappers that should be verified through their public interfaces.
Why use it?
It helps define expected behaviour before implementation and keeps tests focused on what users can observe rather than internal code details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the lean-flow plugin — 16 skills shipped together

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/aldianriski/lean-flow/tdd
Any agent
npx skills add aldianriski/lean-flow --skill tdd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aldianriski/lean-flow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install lean-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for tdd

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,293 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 $0.00088 $0.01293
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00647
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00129

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9cc29b11aabb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 5d 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.

skills/tdd/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

tdd

Behaviour-driven test-first development. Build in vertical slices: one test → one implementation → repeat. Each test responds to what the last cycle taught you.

For fixing a bug, use /diagnose (it writes the failing regression test before the fix). This skill is for new behaviour.

Philosophy

Tests verify behaviour through public interfaces, not implementation details. Code can change entirely; the tests shouldn't.

  • Good test — integration-style, exercises a real code path through the public API, reads like a spec ("user can checkout with a valid cart"). Survives refactors because it ignores internal shape.
  • Bad test — coupled to implementation: mocks internal collaborators, tests private methods, or verifies through a side channel (querying the DB instead of the interface). The tell: it breaks when you rename an internal function but behaviour hasn't changed.

When a test is hard to write, or you're unsure what to mock / how to shape an interface for testability → ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/testability.md (mock-at-boundaries · DI · good/bad examples · refactor candidates). Unsure which kind of test (unit/integ/e2e/perf/load) fits the task → ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/test-strategy.md. What makes a test good — the quality checklist + the 70/20/10 pyramid + risk-tier→depth, as host-project guidance → ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/test-standard.md.

Anti-pattern: the tautological test

An assertion that recomputes the expected value the way the code does passes by construction and can never disagree with the code — expect(add(a, b)).toBe(a + b), a snapshot derived by hand using the same formula, a constant asserted equal to itself. It is green on day one and stays green through the bug it was written to catch, so it reads as coverage while testing nothing.

The tell: ask what would have to be wrong for this to fail? If the only answer is "the language", it is tautological. Same family as L-058 — a check that can only pass is the failure it exists to prevent, and a test suite hides it better than a gate does.

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 5d ago First seen · 99 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 9cc29b11aabb

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tdd is a skill published in the GitHub repository aldianriski/lean-flow (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,293 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.