tdd-red-green-refactor

tdd-red-green-refactor is a skill for Claude Code from loiane/specs-driven-development-spring-angular. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,670 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test-driven development workflow that requires writing a failing test before production code, then making it pass and improving the code. TDD is a method of developing software through this repeated test-first cycle.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when building features under the `/build` process, especially when tests must be linked to requirements and implementation logs.
Why use it?
It makes the intended behavior explicit and records whether each implementation step satisfies its requirement.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when building features under the /build process, especially when tests must be linked to requirements and implementation logs.

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npx skills add loiane/specs-driven-development-spring-angular --skill tdd-red-green-refactor
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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.
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Grade A, and why

tdd-red-green-refactor 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 1mo ago.

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.claude/skills/tdd-red-green-refactor/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TDD: red / green / refactor / simplify

The four phases (per task)

1. RED — write a failing test

  • Read the task entry in 04-tasks.md. Confirm Test-IDs and AC-IDs.

  • Write the smallest possible test that asserts the behavior described by the AC.

    • Annotation block on every @Test method is non-negotiable: @Test → @Tag("AC-NNN") → @DisplayName("..."). Write the @DisplayName before the test body — the act of articulating the display name forces clarity about what the test verifies. Format for AC-traced tests: "<T-ID>: given <precondition>, when <action>, then <outcome>". Short BDD-style sentence is acceptable for utility/regression tests not tied to a specific AC. (Project rule: feedback_displayname_on_every_test.md.)
  • Run only that test (mvn -Dtest=ClassName#method test).

  • The test must fail, and the failure must be for the right reason (the asserted behavior is missing, not a typo or compilation error).

  • Append a red block to 05-implementation-log.md with the failing command and the first 10 lines of the failure output.

  • Update .specs/<id>/.tdd-state.json:

    { "active_task": "T-001", "tasks": { "T-001": { "phase": "red", "red_at": "2026-04-18T10:00:00Z", "red_test_signature": "...", "red_failure_excerpt": "..." } } }
    

The block-impl-without-failing-test hook reads this file. No src/main/** edit is allowed unless phase == red and red_failure_excerpt is non-empty.

2. GREEN — minimum production code

  • Edit only files in the task's Files in scope. The hook enforces this.
  • Write the minimum code to make the failing test pass. No speculative features. No "while I'm here" cleanups.
  • Re-run the test (mvn -Dtest=...). It must pass.
  • Run the module's full Surefire suite to ensure no regression (mvn -q test -pl <module>).
  • Append a green block to 05-implementation-log.md.
  • Set .tdd-state.json phase to green.

3. REFACTOR — improve internals, hold behavior

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 1mo ago First seen · 114 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 7ba01eca068f

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tdd-red-green-refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository loiane/specs-driven-development-spring-angular (62 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,670 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.