tdd

tdd is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,408 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A test-first development workflow that writes attacks against a planned behavior before implementing it. TDD, or test-driven development, uses failing tests to guide each small implementation step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a feature or fix a bug in small red-to-green slices, with tests written before the code.
Why use it?
It helps ensure tests catch boundary mistakes, broken assumptions, and incorrect error handling instead of merely confirming a happy path.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the odin-code plugin — 60 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to build a feature or fix a bug in small…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/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 OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill tdd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 60 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for tdd

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/tdd"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/tdd.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,408 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 $0.00080 $0.01408
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00704
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00141

Measured 3d ago against content hash afe0ef52d970, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 3d 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.

plugins/odin-code/skills/tdd/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Offensive-first TDD

Classic agent TDD rots in a known way: the red test is written as a polite specification, the implementation drifts, and the agent — lacking the metacognition to notice — bends fixtures, weakens assertions, and monkey-patches contracts until green appears. The tokens burn twice and the suite proves nothing. This skill inverts the stance. Red is an attack, not a description: before any implementation, write the tests that try to BREAK the contract — boundary raids, invariant violations, error-path probes, adversarial orderings. Green means the attacks failed to break the code, never that a fixture was satisfied.

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger Develop a fix or feature test-first, plan a multi-step TDD build from a spec, or work behaviour red-to-green in slices.
Authority Reversible-local: write only named test and source files; rollback via VCS revert of the implementation commit. Tests and implementation never change in the same repair step.
Side effect Adds an attack suite and the minimal implementation that survives it, one vertical slice at a time; multi-step work also writes a plan document.
Done Per slice: every contract clause has an attack that failed red for the right reason and passes green unweakened, plus one mutation probe the suite caught. Named evidence: test paths, failing output, passing output, probe output.

Inputs

  • Target and requirement (required): the behavior to build or fix, and the public seam where it is observed. A seam is confirmed with the user before any test exists at it.
  • Contract source (required): spec, caller evidence, or known-good literals — the independent truth attacks are derived from. Never the implementation's own logic.
  • Test framework (optional if discoverable): the project's runner. Stop and report if absent and not discoverable; never install one unasked.

Refusals

  • Never weaken an assertion, bend a fixture, skip a test, or loosen a contract to reach green. Any such edit during a green phase is a stop-the-line violation: revert it, then either fix the implementation or declare a contract change and re-attack from red.
  • Never edit a test and its implementation in the same repair step. Test-fixing and code-fixing are separate cycles, each with a named justification.
  • Never accept a tautological attack (expected value recomputed the way the code computes it) or an implementation-coupled one (mocks internals, tests private methods). Attacks fire at confirmed public seams only.
  • Not for hardening existing code with no behavior change — use tests-adversarial. Not for deleting weak tests — use tests-purge-unneeded.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 56 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A afe0ef52d970

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tdd is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,408 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 2026-09-04.

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