unit-tests-sdd

unit-tests-sdd is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Plazmodium/odin-workflow. It costs 36 tokens per session (701 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A required process for adding unit tests whenever production code changes. It covers expected behavior, edge cases, successful and failing paths, test quality, and checks such as linting and type checking.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during implementation work to add or update tests, run the repository's normal test commands, enforce coverage and assertion rules, and escalate when authorized behavior cannot be verified.
Why use it?
It prevents code changes from shipping without meaningful tests and stops weak tests, skipped checks, unsafe shortcuts, and altered production behavior used only to make tests pass.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it during implementation work to add or update tests, run the…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/plazmodium/odin-workflow/unit-tests-sdd
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Plazmodium/odin-workflow --skill unit-tests-sdd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Plazmodium/odin-workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 701 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 $0.00036 $0.00701
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00351
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00070

Measured 6d ago against content hash f11145dba64c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

unit-tests-sdd 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 6d 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.

agents/skills/testing/unit-tests-sdd/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Unit Test Generation Protocol

Use this skill whenever Builder changes production code. Tests are not optional.

Required Outcome

  • Add or update unit tests for every code-changing task.
  • Cover acceptance criteria, edge cases, happy paths, and failure paths.
  • Run the repo-native test command and lint/type checks relevant to tests.
  • Stop and escalate if tests cannot be made green without changing production code in ways the spec did not authorize.

Hard Guardrails

  • Never skip tests for code changes.
  • Never modify production code only to make a bad test pass.
  • Never delete or weaken an existing passing test just to get green.
  • Never use any, @ts-ignore, or @ts-expect-error as shortcuts in tests.
  • Never use vacuous assertions like expect(true).toBe(true).
  • Never rely on snapshots as the main proof of behavior.
  • Never mock the module under test; mock dependencies only.
  • Never leave .only, .skip, console.log, debugger, or sleep-style delays in committed tests.

Build Workflow

  1. Read the source file fully before writing tests.
  2. Identify exports, branches, async behavior, and error paths.
  3. Add or update colocated test files following repo conventions.
  4. Use clear describe / it names tied to observable behavior.
  5. Follow Arrange / Act / Assert in each non-trivial test.
  6. Run the repo-native test command with coverage.
  7. Run the repo-native lint command if tests or linted files changed.
  8. If coverage is below the project hard gate, add tests or escalate.

Coverage Expectations

  • Meet the project's hard coverage gates at minimum.
  • Aim for near-complete coverage on the changed unit.
  • Cover both success and failure branches.
  • Document genuine coverage gaps explicitly; do not hide them with meaningless tests.

Assertion Rules

  • Prefer exact assertions over truthy/falsy checks.
  • Assert outputs, visible UI, callback args, and thrown/rejected errors.
  • Avoid implementation-detail assertions on private state or internals.
  • For mocks, prefer argument assertions such as toHaveBeenCalledWith(...).

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 6d ago First seen · 84 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A f11145dba64c

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unit-tests-sdd is a skill published in the GitHub repository Plazmodium/odin-workflow (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 701 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 2026-09-01.

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