write-failing-test-first

write-failing-test-first is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Archive228/loopkit. It costs 29 tokens per session (188 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Before fixing any bug, write a test that reproduces it and watch it fail. Use for every bug fix.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/archive228/loopkit/write-failing-test-first
Any agent
npx skills add Archive228/loopkit --skill write-failing-test-first
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Archive228/loopkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 188 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00029 $0.00188
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00094
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00019

Measured today against content hash b34424dcc62d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-failing-test-first 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 today.

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/write-failing-test-first/SKILL.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Write the Failing Test First

The only proof you fixed a bug is a test that failed before and passes after.

  1. Write the smallest test that reproduces the reported behavior.
  2. Run it. Watch it fail for the right reason (read the assertion, not just red).
  3. Now fix the code.
  4. Run the test. It passes. Run the FULL suite — you didn't break anything else. If you can't write the test easily, the architecture is telling you something (tight coupling). Say so. Never: fix first, test after (you'll write a test that passes regardless). Never: skip the watch-it-fail step.
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. today First seen · 14 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A b34424dcc62d

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write-failing-test-first is a skill published in the GitHub repository Archive228/loopkit (755 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 188 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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