tdd-with-phpunit

tdd-with-phpunit is a skill for Claude Code from dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony. It costs 42 tokens per session (499 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Symfony testing workflow using TDD, or test-driven development: write a failing test, make it pass, then improve the code while keeping tests green.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with PHPUnit 10 or 11 for unit, functional, and end-to-end tests using Symfony test cases, data providers, and Foundry factories.
Why use it?
It turns bug reports and desired behavior into repeatable tests and reduces the risk of breaking existing Symfony features.

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 PHPUnit 10 or 11 for unit, functional, and end-to-end tests using Symfony test cases, data providers, and Foundry factories.

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

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony --skill tdd-with-phpunit
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 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 499 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 $0.00042 $0.00499
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00200
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00050

Measured 20d ago against content hash 53f4e4d26e0c, 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-phpunit 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-phpunit/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Tdd With Phpunit (Symfony)

Use when

  • Driving a feature with RED-GREEN-REFACTOR using PHPUnit 10/11 class-based tests.
  • Choosing between TestCase, KernelTestCase and WebTestCase for a new behavior.
  • Testing a console command, or an invalid form that must answer 422.
  • Swapping an external service for a double through the test container.

Default workflow

  1. RED: pick the base class, write the test with #[Test], #[DataProvider] and #[CoversClass], run it and check it fails for the right reason.
  2. GREEN: write the minimum code that passes.
  3. REFACTOR with the suite green, re-running it after each change.
  4. Replace an external boundary with static::getContainer()->set(Service::class, $mock).
  5. Test commands with CommandTester, or with runCommand() and assertCommandIsSuccessful() on Symfony 8.1+.
  6. Assert invalid form submissions with assertResponseIsUnprocessable().

Guardrails

  • Use PHPUnit 10+ attributes, not @test or @dataProvider annotations.
  • Fetch services with static::getContainer(), not the legacy self::$container.
  • Mock only true external boundaries (HTTP clients, third-party SDKs); keep real services and a real database elsewhere.
  • runCommand() and closures in getContainer()->set() need Symfony 8.1+.

Progressive disclosure

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

Output contract

  • The failing PHPUnit output (RED), then the passing run.
  • Test files changed, with the base class and attributes used.
  • 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 · +4 lines 53f4e4d26e0c
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines · -2 tokens per session 66c60cf5c15d
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 42 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A eec25e726eca

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tdd-with-phpunit is a skill published in the GitHub repository dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony (226 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 499 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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