test-driven-development

A test-first development guide that follows the red-green-refactor cycle: write a failing test, make it pass with minimal code, then improve the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new features, bug fixes, and behavior-changing refactors; it can be skipped for documentation, configuration-only, and other non-functional changes.
Why use it?
It checks that a test actually detects the missing behavior before implementation is written, helping prevent weak or misleading tests.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 212 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 $0.00029 $0.00212
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00106
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00021

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1ec59ae17363, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

src-tauri/builtin-skills/test-driven-development/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Rule

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.

When to Use

Always for:

  • New features
  • Bug fixes
  • Refactoring with behavior changes

Skip only for:

  • Config file changes
  • Documentation updates
  • Non-functional changes (formatting, comments)

Process

  1. Red: Write a failing test
  2. Green: Write minimal code to pass
  3. Refactor: Clean up while keeping tests green

Anti-Patterns

  • Writing implementation before the test
  • Skipping the "watch it fail" step
  • Writing tests that are too coupled to implementation
  • Testing framework behavior instead of your code
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 · 37 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 1ec59ae17363

Subscribe to this mod's changes

test-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository peintune/runjam (128 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 212 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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