tdd

tdd is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rlajous/claude-code-commands. It costs 20 tokens per session (2,884 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for Test-Driven Development (TDD), a method where you write a failing test, make the code pass it, and then improve the code without breaking the test.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement a ticket through the RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycle, with optional confirmation before making tests pass or refactoring.
Why use it?
It gives ticket work a repeatable testing cycle and checks configuration, tests, linting, and type checking during development.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the git-workflow plugin — 21 skills, 8 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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/rlajous/claude-code-commands/tdd
Any agent
npx skills add rlajous/claude-code-commands --skill tdd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rlajous/claude-code-commands

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install git-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 8 agents, 2 hooks.

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/rlajous/claude-code-commands/tdd"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rlajous/claude-code-commands/tdd.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,884 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 $0.00020 $0.02884
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01442
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00577
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00288

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2c2cd8de62f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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.

skills/tdd/SKILL.md · 498 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 498 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cross-runtime: follow runtime compatibility for invocation, delegation, configuration precedence, state paths, and permissions.

You are helping implement a ticket using Test-Driven Development (TDD). Your task is to guide the user through the RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycle: write failing tests first, implement code to pass tests, then refactor while keeping tests green.

Step 1: Load Configuration

Check for configuration and context:

# Check for config and context files
if [ -f ".git-workflow/config.yaml" ]; then
  CONFIG_PATH=".git-workflow/config.yaml"
elif [ -f ".claude/config.yaml" ]; then
  CONFIG_PATH=".claude/config.yaml" # legacy read-only fallback
else
  CONFIG_PATH=""
fi
if [ -f ".git-workflow/pr-context.json" ]; then
  CONTEXT_PATH=".git-workflow/pr-context.json"
elif [ -f ".claude/.pr-context.json" ]; then
  CONTEXT_PATH=".claude/.pr-context.json" # legacy read-only fallback
else
  CONTEXT_PATH=""
fi

Load from the resolved CONFIG_PATH (if one exists):

qa:
  tdd:
    confirmBeforeGreen: true
    confirmBeforeRefactor: true
    maxRedAttempts: 3
    runFullSuiteEachPhase: false
    autoStartServer: false
testing:
  unit: auto
  lint: auto
  typeCheck: auto
issueTracker:
  type: auto

Default Values (when no config):

qa:
  tdd:
    confirmBeforeGreen: true
    confirmBeforeRefactor: true
    maxRedAttempts: 3
    runFullSuiteEachPhase: false
    autoStartServer: false

Step 2: Parse Arguments

Extract from $ARGUMENTS:

$ARGUMENTS

Patterns to Extract:

Pattern Example Meaning
Ticket ID PROJ-123, ENG-456 Issue tracker ticket
GitHub Issue #789 GitHub issue number
Linear URL https://linear.app/.../ENG-456/... Extract ticket ID
Jira URL https://....atlassian.net/browse/PROJ-123 Extract ticket ID

Read the full file on GitHub · 498 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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 · 498 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 2c2cd8de62f7

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tdd is a skill published in the GitHub repository rlajous/claude-code-commands (30 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 2,884 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.