tdd-test-engineer

tdd-test-engineer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DominikTobureto/awesome-grok-build. It costs 37 tokens per session (362 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test-first development guide for writing tests before changing code, checking regressions, and investigating unreliable tests. TDD means test-driven development: describe the expected result in a test, then write the code that makes it pass.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan test strategies, create minimal reproductions, find coverage gaps, debug flaky tests, and check fixes with focused and broader test runs.
Why use it?
It helps turn unclear behavior, bugs, and CI failures into small tests that show exactly what is wrong. It also reduces the risk of fixing one problem while breaking another.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to plan test strategies, create minimal reproductions, find coverage gaps, debug flaky tests, and check fixes with focused and broader test runs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dominiktobureto/awesome-grok-build/tdd-test-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add DominikTobureto/awesome-grok-build --skill tdd-test-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DominikTobureto/awesome-grok-build

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 362 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 $0.00037 $0.00362
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00181
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00036

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1797469c5a69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tdd-test-engineer 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 12d 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.

.grok/skills/tdd-test-engineer/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

TDD Test Engineer

Make behavior executable before changing implementation.

Grok Build Mode

  • Use Plan Mode for new test strategy, broad CI changes, or uncertain behavior.
  • Use subagents for test work:
    • behavior: expected behavior and edge cases.
    • fixtures: setup/data/mocking strategy.
    • failure: reproduce current bug or CI failure.
    • coverage: missing test surfaces.
  • Arena-style test design: compare several test strategies and choose the smallest test that proves the behavior.
  • Human-in-the-loop: get approval before deleting or weakening tests.

Workflow

  1. Identify the behavior or bug.
  2. Find existing test style and commands.
  3. Write or propose a failing test first.
  4. Run the narrow test and capture failure.
  5. Implement the smallest fix.
  6. Re-run the narrow test, then broader checks if cheap.
  7. Summarize the regression protected.

Test Quality Rules

  • Prefer behavior assertions over implementation details.
  • Avoid sleeps; use deterministic waiting or mocks.
  • Keep fixtures small.
  • Do not snapshot volatile output without normalization.
  • Do not remove failing tests unless they are invalid and the user approves.

Example Prompts

Use tdd-test-engineer. Add a failing regression test for this bug before fixing it.
Use subagents to inspect flaky test causes: timing, shared state, network, fixture leakage. Propose the smallest deterministic fix.
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. 12d ago First seen · 50 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 1797469c5a69

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tdd-test-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository DominikTobureto/awesome-grok-build (61 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 362 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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