ring:test-driven-development

A command that sends the same task to Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3.1 Pro in parallel, then has Opus 4.8 judge the results and write the final answer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for research, analysis, or coding tasks where multiple independent attempts and a reviewed result are useful.
Why use it?
It compares work from several AI models and records where they agree, disagree, or miss parts of the task. Missing command-line tools or failed participants can reduce the panel.

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/lerianstudio/ring/test-driven-development
Any agent
npx skills add LerianStudio/ring --skill test-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LerianStudio/ring

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 914 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 $0.00089 $0.00914
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00457
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00091

Measured 2d ago against content hash c235b813567d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ring:test-driven-development 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 2d 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.

default/skills/test-driven-development/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

When to use

  • Starting implementation of new feature
  • Starting implementation of bugfix
  • Writing new production code

Skip when

  • Reviewing/modifying existing tests
  • Exploratory/spike work — TDD is for known requirements, not exploration.

Write the test first. Watch it fail. Write minimal code to pass.

Core principle: If you didn't watch the test fail, you don't know if it tests the right thing.

The Iron Law

NO PRODUCTION CODE WITHOUT A FAILING TEST FIRST

RED → GREEN → REFACTOR

RED: Write Failing Test

Write one minimal test showing what should happen. Name describes behavior. Tests real code (not mocks unless unavoidable).

Time limit: <5 minutes. Complex setup = design too complex.

# Run test — MANDATORY. Never skip.
npm test path/to/test.test.ts   # or go test ./... | pytest

Paste the actual failure output. No output = violation.

Test Type Expected Failure
New feature NameError: function not defined or AttributeError
Bug fix Actual wrong output/behavior

Test passes immediately? You're testing existing behavior — fix the test.

GREEN: Minimal Code

Write simplest code to pass the test. Nothing more. No extra features, no refactoring unrelated code.

Run test → confirm passes → confirm other tests still pass.

REFACTOR: Clean Up

After green only. Remove duplication, improve names. Keep tests green. Don't add behavior.

Repeat

Next failing test for next feature.

Violation: Code Written Before Test

Only one action: DELETE IT. Immediately.

rm <files>                                  # remove new files
git restore --staged --worktree <files>     # discard changes to tracked files
# Destructive operations (e.g., git reset --hard) require user confirmation.

Delete means gone forever. These are NOT deleting: git stash, mv to .bak, commenting out, keeping as "reference."

No asking permission. No alternatives. No exceptions.

  • Deadline? Delete, communicate delay, do it right.
  • 4 hours of work? Sunk cost fallacy. Delete.
  • Manager pressure? Delete, explain TDD prevents bugs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 2d ago First seen · 119 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A c235b813567d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ring:test-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository LerianStudio/ring (210 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 914 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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