develop-tdd

A test-driven development workflow for building features and fixing bugs in small vertical slices. Test-driven development means writing a test for the desired behavior, making it pass, and then improving the code without changing that behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for feature work and bug fixes, including creating a plan, writing behavior-focused tests, implementing one slice at a time, and refactoring after tests pass.
Why use it?
It provides required planning, branching, and testing steps before code is changed. This reduces the risk of implementing the wrong behavior or skipping verification.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/danielvm-git/bigpowers/develop-tdd
Any agent
npx skills add danielvm-git/bigpowers --skill develop-tdd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,618 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00038 $0.03618
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01809
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00724
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00362

Measured yesterday against content hash 4d3eb8b65b21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

develop-tdd scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

fetch: (endpoint, options) => fetch(endpoint, options),
.cline/skills/develop-tdd/SKILL.md · 417 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 417 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Develop TDD

HARD GATE — Do NOT proceed if on main or master. Run kickoff-branch first to create a feature branch or worktree.

HARD GATE — Do NOT write code before you have a plan. New feature: plan-work → epic capsule tasks. Bug: investigate-bugspecs/bugs/BUG-*.md (or use fix-bug orchestrator).

RECURSIVE DISCIPLINE — This lifecycle applies to EVERY task, including updating these skills. Never skip planning because a task is "meta" or "just documentation."

Philosophy

Tests verify behavior through public interfaces, not implementation details. A good test reads like a specification. See REFERENCE.md for the horizontal-slice anti-pattern and TDD phase detail.

Red Flags

If you catch yourself thinking these, stop and reconsider — you are likely deviating from production-grade craft.

Red Flag Reality
"This is too simple to need tests." Simple code is where bugs hide. If it's simple, the test is cheap.
"I'll refactor this later." "Later" is when technical debt becomes bankruptcy. Refactor while Green.
"The tests are already comprehensive." If you're adding behavior, you need a new test. Coverage ≠ Correctness.
"I'm just fixing a small bug." Small bugs often indicate deep interface flaws. Investigate root cause.
"I need to mock this internal class." Mocking internals couples tests to implementation. Mock only I/O.
"This refactor is out of scope." Leave the code cleaner than you found it (Boy Scout Rule).
"Preflight failed but it's unrelated." Always Green: any reproducible gate failure routes quick-fix → fix-bug before forward work. Session boundaries do not waive Preflight.
"I'll note the red gate and continue." Narrating a failure is banned. fix-or-log is mandatory per CONVENTIONS § Discovered Defects.

Workflow

Timing: bash scripts/bp-timing.sh start develop-tdd at invocation; bash scripts/bp-timing.sh end develop-tdd before handoff.

Read the full file on GitHub · 417 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 First seen · 417 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 4d3eb8b65b21

Subscribe to this mod's changes

develop-tdd is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielvm-git/bigpowers (156 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 3,618 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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