tdd

tdd is a skill for Claude Code from anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins. It costs 83 tokens per session (997 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Test-Driven Development (TDD) guide for Laravel, Flutter, and Vue projects. TDD means writing a failing test, implementing enough code to pass it, and then refactoring while keeping tests passing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing unit, feature, widget, or component tests with PHPUnit, Pest, Vitest, or Jest, and when following the red-green-refactor cycle.
Why use it?
It gives a repeatable way to build behavior in small, checked steps and helps ensure new code has tests from the start.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the implementation-planner plugin — 3 skills, 3 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing unit, feature, widget, or component tests with PHPUnit, Pest, Vitest, or Jest, and when following the red-green-refactor cycle.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins/tdd
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 anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins --skill tdd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install implementation-planner, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 3 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 997 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 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 $0.00083 $0.00997
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00399
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00199
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00100

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 29c1208f7fa3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

implementation-planner/skills/tdd/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Test-Driven Development Skill

Guidelines for effective Test-Driven Development.

TDD Philosophy

"Write a failing test before you write the code that makes it pass."

  • Kent Beck

The TDD Cycle

    ┌─────────┐
    │   RED   │  Write failing test
    └────┬────┘
         │
    ┌────▼────┐
    │  GREEN  │  Write minimal code to pass
    └────┬────┘
         │
    ┌────▼────┐
    │REFACTOR │  Clean up, keep tests green
    └────┬────┘
         │
         └──────► Repeat

RED Phase

Goal

Write a test that FAILS because the code does not exist yet.

Rules

  • Test expresses expected behavior
  • Test is focused on ONE thing
  • Test has meaningful assertions
  • Test MUST fail when run

If Test Passes in RED

Something is wrong:

  • Code may already exist
  • Test may be incorrectly written
  • Test may not be testing what you think

Investigate before proceeding.

GREEN Phase

Goal

Write the MINIMUM code to make the test pass.

Rules

  • Only write enough to pass the test
  • No optimization
  • No additional features
  • No "while I'm here" changes
  • Ugly code is OK

Mantra

"Make it work, make it right, make it fast." (We're in "make it work" phase)

REFACTOR Phase

Goal

Improve code quality while keeping tests green.

Rules

  • Run tests after EVERY change
  • Small, incremental improvements
  • Revert if tests fail
  • Stop when code is clean enough

Common Refactorings

  • Extract method/function
  • Rename for clarity
  • Remove duplication
  • Apply design patterns
  • Add documentation

Framework-Specific Guides

When to Use TDD

Always Use TDD For

  • Business logic
  • Data transformations
  • Validation rules
  • API endpoints
  • Services

Consider Skipping TDD For

  • Simple CRUD (test at integration level)
  • Configuration code
  • Boilerplate/scaffolding
  • UI-only changes (use manual testing)

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 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. 1mo ago First seen · 177 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 29c1208f7fa3

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tdd is a skill published in the GitHub repository anilcancakir/claude-code-plugins (6 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 997 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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