tdd-workflow

A test-first development workflow. TDD, or test-driven development, means writing a test for the desired behavior before writing the code that implements it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new behavior and meaningful bug fixes by investigating the affected modules, writing failing tests, implementing the change, and running the relevant test suite.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear requirements and regressions early, so changes are checked against an executable example of the expected behavior.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,674 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 $0.00049 $0.01674
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00837
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00335
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00167

Measured yesterday against content hash ef748de1adc3, 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 yesterday.

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.

src/core/skills/tdd-workflow/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TDD Workflow (Test-Driven Development)

Quando usar (sempre)

  • Mudança de comportamento (feature nova, correção de bug com regressão) — ver 04-tdd-mandatory.mdc e docs/governance/cursor/workflow/00-overview.md (test-first).
  • Quando existe um alvo verificável (testes) para iterar até passar.

Antes do primeiro teste

  1. Cumprir investigação mínima — rule 01-investigation-before-implementation.mdc; objetivos/non-objectivos; módulos e contratos impactados; evitar duplicar use cases/adapters/UI já existentes.
  2. Se o escopo tocar apps/*, web/*, libraries/*, infra/*: ler AGENTS.md e README do subprojeto (quando existirem) — comandos e camadas corretas (40-submodule-governance.mdc).
  3. Ordem de fases em execução guiada: docs/governance/cursor/workflow/02-implementation.md (investigation → TDD prep → implementation loop → …).

Fluxo TDD (disciplina)

  1. Escrever ou estender testes primeiro — cenários e asserts claros; nomes que documentem comportamento.
  2. Executar a suíte relevante e confirmar falha — não adicionar implementação “para fazer passar” antes de ver o vermelho (exceto infra mínima impossível de testar sem stubs já aceites no projeto).
  3. Implementar o mínimo para verde — sem alterar o contrato dos testes salvo erro de especificação já acordado com o utilizador.
  4. Refatorar com testes verdes (opcional mas recomendado).
  5. Repetir até cobrir acceptance criteria.

Regras

  • Não usar mocks que substituam comportamento que ainda não existe de forma a falsificar verde — o primeiro objetivo é falha legítima.
  • Não mudar testes durante implementação só para “facilitar” — se o teste estiver errado, corrigir com explícito acordo sobre especificação.
  • Rodar testes após cada iteração significativa.
  • Backend: integração com persistência realista → preferir Testcontainers + PostgreSQL onde o projeto já o faz (15-database-flyway-testcontainers.mdc); não usar H2 para substituir semântica PostgreSQL em integração.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 94 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A ef748de1adc3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tdd-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository Joaonic/agentkit (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,674 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 2026-08-31.

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