tdd-with-pest

tdd-with-pest is a skill for Claude Code from dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony. It costs 43 tokens per session (558 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Symfony testing workflow using TDD, or test-driven development, with Pest: write a failing test, make it pass, then refactor safely.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with Pest 4 and PHP 8.3 or later for unit, functional, and end-to-end tests through Symfony's PHPUnit bridge.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to turn bugs and requirements into executable tests while checking failures before implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the superpowers-symfony plugin — 44 skills, 13 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it with Pest 4 and PHP 8.3 or later for unit, functional, and end-to-end tests through Symfony's PHPUnit bridge.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony/tdd-with-pest
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony --skill tdd-with-pest
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superpowers-symfony, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 13 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 558 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00043 $0.00558
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00223
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00056

Measured 20d ago against content hash 4c7e5779e092, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tdd-with-pest 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 20d 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.

content/skills/tdd-with-pest/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Tdd With Pest (Symfony)

Use when

  • Driving a feature with RED-GREEN-REFACTOR in a project that runs Pest v4 (PHP 8.3+).
  • Writing it() and expect() tests that need the Symfony kernel or an HTTP client.
  • Converting existing PHPUnit class tests to Pest syntax with pest-plugin-drift.
  • Adding a bug-reproducing test to a Pest suite before the fix.

Default workflow

  1. Confirm PHP 8.3+ and Pest v4, then generate tests/Pest.php with ./vendor/bin/pest --init.
  2. Bind the bridge classes in tests/Pest.php: uses(KernelTestCase::class, Factories::class, ResetDatabase::class)->in('Integration') and uses(WebTestCase::class, ...)->in('Functional').
  3. RED: write an it() test with Foundry v2 factories, run ./vendor/bin/pest --filter and check it fails for the right reason.
  4. GREEN: write the minimal code, then REFACTOR and re-run ./vendor/bin/pest.
  5. Gate the suite with --parallel and --coverage --min=80.

Guardrails

  • There is no official Symfony Pest plugin: never reference pestphp/pest-plugin-symfony, bind KernelTestCase or WebTestCase through uses().
  • Foundry v2 factories return real objects: no ->object() call.
  • Pest test files are anonymous, so use the Factories and ResetDatabase traits rather than the #[ResetDatabase] attribute.
  • Chain related checks with expect()->and(); keep one concept per test.

Progressive disclosure

  • Use this file for execution posture and risk controls.
  • Open references when deep implementation details are needed.

Output contract

  • The failing ./vendor/bin/pest output (RED), then the passing run.
  • tests/Pest.php bindings added or changed.
  • Test files changed and the commands executed.

References

  • reference.md
Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 20d ago Changed · +3 lines 4c7e5779e092
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines · -2 tokens per session 8448f1a27a59
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 43 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 07099addea61

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tdd-with-pest is a skill published in the GitHub repository dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony (226 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 558 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 2026-09-03.

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