clio-kit-tdd

clio-kit-tdd is a skill for Claude Code from iowarp/clio-kit. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,780 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A test-first development workflow, commonly called TDD, where a failing test is written before the code and then made to pass. It builds one small end-to-end part at a time through a public interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to develop a feature or fix through a red-to-green test cycle, one vertical slice at a time.
Why use it?
It makes the intended behavior explicit and helps prevent changes that work internally but fail at the interface users rely on.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the clio-coder-skills plugin — 39 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to develop a feature or fix through a red-to-green test cycle, one vertical slice at a time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iowarp/clio-kit/clio-kit-tdd
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install clio-coder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,780 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 $0.00063 $0.01780
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00712
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00178

Measured 9d ago against content hash 61a56ed996a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clio-kit-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 9d 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/clio-coder-skills/skills/clio-kit-tdd/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Host compatibility

This copy is adapted from Clio Coder. Apply the procedure using the current host's available tools and the user's authorized scope. The tool names, /skill invocations, .clio-coder paths, fleets, approval gates and completion gates below describe Clio Coder; they are not installed or enforced by this skill in another host. Use the host's actual skill invocation and equivalent tools. If no equivalent exists, report the missing capability. Do not assume a tool is unavailable merely because the original headless workflow says so. A referenced agent or skill must be installed before relying on it. Scientific MCPs must be configured separately.

Adapted skills use the clio-kit- prefix to distinguish them from upstream audited skills. For a companion skill named below, select its clio-kit- copy from this collection; native agents, fleets and external programs retain their original names.

Test-Driven Development

The red → green loop, run so it produces tests worth keeping. A good test verifies behavior through a public interface and reads like a specification: "user can checkout with valid cart" names a capability. The implementation can change entirely; the test should not.

Arguments

Arguments are passed in the user invocation message or via /skill clio-kit-tdd:

/skill clio-kit-tdd [--runner command] [--file path] [--test-file path] <task description>

Examples

  • /skill clio-kit-tdd implement parseDuration in parse-duration.js
  • /skill clio-kit-tdd --runner "node --test" reproduce and fix token expiration bug
  • /skill clio-kit-tdd --test-file tests/cart.test.ts checkout cart calculation

Options

  • --runner <command>: The test runner command to execute (e.g., node --test, npm test, pytest, cargo test). If omitted, inspects package.json, project configuration, or existing test files.
  • --file <path>: The target implementation source file to create or update.
  • --test-file <path>: The target test file to create or update.

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 9d ago First seen · 130 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 61a56ed996a2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clio-kit-tdd is a skill published in the GitHub repository iowarp/clio-kit (30 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,780 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-08.

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