tdd-workflow

A workflow for test-driven development, or TDD: write one small failing test, implement the minimum code to pass it, then refactor and test again.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding features one discrete behaviour at a time, checking that tests fail for the right reason, pass after implementation, and still pass after refactoring.
Why use it?
It keeps each change focused and verifies behaviour throughout implementation, reducing the chance of building untested functionality.

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/dgalarza/claude-code-workflows/tdd-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add dgalarza/claude-code-workflows --skill tdd-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dgalarza/claude-code-workflows

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 163 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00018 $0.00163
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00033
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00016

Measured 3d ago against content hash 61533ed57d30, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tdd-workflow 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 3d 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.

plugins/tdd-workflow/skills/tdd-workflow/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

The goal of this skill is to implement a true test driven development workflow. This means:

  1. Writing the simplest test for ONE discrete piece of functionality.
  2. Run the new test and verify that it fails as expected.
  3. Write the minimal amount of code needed to make the test pass.
  4. Run the test to verify it passes.
  5. Once tests pass, look for opportunities to refactor.
  6. Run tests once again to verify refactoring didn't break anything.

Repeat this until you've completed the functionality desired.

Remember to never do any of the following:

  1. Write an entire test file up front.
  2. Implement more than one discrete piece of functionality at a time.
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. 3d ago First seen · 20 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 61533ed57d30

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tdd-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository dgalarza/claude-code-workflows (59 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 163 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 2026-08-30.

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