tdd

tdd is a skill for Claude Code from chhoumann/t3-pstack. It costs 52 tokens per session (614 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test-first workflow for fixing bugs with a practical local test path. It writes a focused regression test that fails before the fix and passes after it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for explicit TDD requests, failing-test requests, regression tests, and bugs that have a clear, cheap test target.
Why use it?
It makes the broken behavior explicit and helps prevent the same bug from returning. It avoids forcing a test when the required setup would be broad, slow, or unreliable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the t3-pstack plugin — 62 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it for explicit TDD requests, failing-test requests, regression tests, and bugs that have a clear, cheap test target.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chhoumann/t3-pstack/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 chhoumann/t3-pstack --skill tdd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chhoumann/t3-pstack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install t3-pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 614 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 $0.00052 $0.00614
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00246
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00061

Measured yesterday against content hash eeb868e2dfeb, 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 yesterday.

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

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • tdd — 88% identical, 2 lines differ
plugins/pstack/skills/tdd/SKILL.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TDD Bug Fix

When fixing a bug with a clear, cheap test path, make the broken behavior executable before changing production code. The goal is a focused regression test that fails before the fix and passes after it.

Do not force a test when it would be impractical. If the available test would require broad harness setup, brittle mocks, slow end-to-end infrastructure, production-only state, vague reproduction steps, or large unrelated fixture churn, skip adding a new test and use the closest useful verification instead.

Workflow

  1. Understand the bug. Identify the intended behavior, current behavior, affected path, and smallest observable reproduction.
  2. Choose the narrowest executable check. Prefer the closest unit, component, integration, or regression test already used for that codepath. If no practical test path is obvious, do not create one from scratch just to satisfy the workflow.
  3. Write the failing test first. Add the smallest focused test that would have caught the bug. The test should encode intended behavior, not mirror the current implementation.
  4. Run the new test before fixing. Confirm it fails for the intended reason. If it passes or fails for an unrelated reason, correct the test or reproduction before editing the implementation.
  5. Fix the bug. Make the smallest production change that satisfies the intended behavior while preserving nearby contracts.
  6. Rerun the regression test. Confirm the test now passes.

If a Failing Test Is Impractical

Use the closest executable regression check instead: a targeted script, manual reproduction command, browser automation, snapshot comparison, log assertion, or focused integration check.

Prefer no new test over a bad test. A bad test is one that mostly tests mocks, encodes current implementation details, depends on timing or unrelated global state, needs expensive infrastructure for a small fix, or would be deleted immediately after proving the fix.

Guardrails

  • Do not change tests merely to match a wrong implementation.
  • Do not weaken existing assertions unless the expected behavior has genuinely changed and the reason is clear.
  • Keep the regression test focused on the bug. Avoid broad fixture churn or unrelated coverage expansion.
  • If the bug is flaky, make the test deterministic where possible and document the signal being locked down.
  • If the bug exposes a broader class of failures, first land the focused regression path, then consider additional sibling coverage.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 lines

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. yesterday Changed · +1 lines eeb868e2dfeb
  2. 3d ago First seen · 42 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 276f883002b7

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tdd is a skill published in the GitHub repository chhoumann/t3-pstack (190 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 614 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-13.