tdd-workflow

tdd-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Goldziher/ai-rulez. It costs 88 tokens per session (193 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test-first development workflow called TDD, or test-driven development. It writes a failing test first, adds the smallest code that makes it pass, and then improves the code without changing its behaviour.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a feature or fixing a bug, with unit tests for business logic, integration tests for API surfaces, and property tests for code with many edge cases.
Why use it?
It catches regressions early and makes the intended behaviour explicit before implementation grows.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when starting a feature or fixing a bug, with unit tests for business logic, integration tests for API surfaces, and property tests for code with many edge cases.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/goldziher/ai-rulez/tdd-workflow
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 193 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.
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 $0.00088 $0.00193
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00077
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00019

Measured 18d ago against content hash 507902d9ebc1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 18d 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.

internal/builtins/universal/testing/skills/tdd-workflow/SKILL.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

  • Write the test before the code. Update the test when changing behaviour.
  • Fixing a bug: write the failing test first, then fix. RED → GREEN → REFACTOR.
  • Wrote production code before the test? Delete it and start over — no exceptions, don't keep it as reference.
  • Integration tests for API surfaces, unit tests for business logic, property tests for edge-case-heavy code.
  • Run the full test suite before committing — never push untested code.
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. 18d ago First seen · 11 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 507902d9ebc1

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tdd-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository Goldziher/ai-rulez (161 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 193 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-28.

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