tdd-cycle

tdd-cycle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from andreibesleaga/GABBE. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,373 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A test-driven development loop called Red-Green-Refactor: write a failing test, make it pass, then improve the code. It also checks that tests are not passing for the wrong reason.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build features step by step from tests and to review whether those tests genuinely detect failures.
Why use it?
It keeps implementation tied to verified behavior and helps catch tests that give false confidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to build features step by step from tests and to review whether those tests genuinely detect failures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/andreibesleaga/gabbe/tdd-cycle
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.

Any agent
npx skills add andreibesleaga/GABBE --skill tdd-cycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andreibesleaga/GABBE

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,373 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00018 $0.01373
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00549
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00137

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6e54eaae0e52, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tdd-cycle 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 1mo 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.

agents/skills/coding/tdd-cycle.skill.md · 93 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago First seen · 93 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 6e54eaae0e52

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tdd-cycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository andreibesleaga/GABBE (23 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,373 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-04.

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