tdd

tdd is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from es6kr/skills. It costs 153 tokens per session (496 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Test-Driven Development guide. TDD means writing a test for the expected behavior first, making it pass with code, and then improving the code without changing the behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write tests before implementation, fix bugs with reproducing tests, run tests across unit, integration, and end-to-end levels, and design test cases.
Why use it?
It gives coding and bug-fixing work a clear test-first sequence and helps choose tests for edge cases and different kinds of input.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the es6kr plugin — 28 skills shipped together , and of es6kr

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/es6kr/skills/tdd
Any agent
npx skills add es6kr/skills --skill tdd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/es6kr/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install es6kr, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for tdd

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/es6kr/skills/tdd.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/es6kr/skills/tdd)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/es6kr/skills/tdd"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/es6kr/skills/tdd.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 496 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 $0.00153 $0.00496
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00248
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00050

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2533fa0cbb1e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tdd 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 5d 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.

skills/tdd/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

TDD (Test-Driven Development)

Test-Driven Development: define expected behavior first, then make it pass with implementation.

Topics

Topic Description Guide
cycle Red→Green→Refactor cycle, bug-fix TDD, anti-patterns cycle.md
run Test execution workflow (environment detection→impact scope→execution→result reporting) run.md
test-strategies Boundary value·equivalence partitioning·decision table·error guessing·path coverage test-strategies.md

Quick Reference

Trigger entry (HARD STOP — first action)

When this skill is invoked, the FIRST tool call must be TaskCreate (Red/Green/Refactor/Verify) + Red test authoring. Diagnosis, planning, option asks, and medium decisions are forbidden before Red is authored + executed + failure confirmed. See cycle.md "Trigger entry".

TDD Cycle

Define expected behavior → natural failure → implement → pass → refactor. See cycle.md.

Test Execution

Environment detection → impact scope → execution (unit→integration→e2e) → result reporting. See run.md.

Test Design Techniques

Decide which test cases to write (boundary value, equivalence partitioning, etc.). See test-strategies.md.

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 5d ago First seen · 38 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A 2533fa0cbb1e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tdd is a skill published in the GitHub repository es6kr/skills (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 496 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.