tdd

tdd is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sairam0424/MindForge. It costs 15 tokens per session (956 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of tdd, MIT.

A strict TDD workflow: write a failing test, implement enough code to pass it, then refactor while keeping behavior covered.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for test-first feature work, bug fixes, integration tests, and red-green-refactor development.
Why use it?
It keeps tests tied to public behavior, so internal code can change without making useful tests obsolete.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for test-first feature work, bug fixes, integration tests, and red-green-refactor development.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sairam0424/mindforge/mindforge-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 sairam0424/MindForge --skill mindforge-tdd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sairam0424/MindForge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 956 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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00015 $0.00956
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00478
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00096

Measured 5d ago against content hash e0cdd750247c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to tdd — 13 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agent/skills/mindforge-tdd/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: tdd description: Test-driven development with red-green-refactor loop. Use when user wants to build features or fix bugs using TDD, mentions "red-green-refactor", wants integration tests, or asks for test-first development.

Test-Driven Development

Philosophy

Core principle: Tests should verify behavior through public interfaces, not implementation details. Code can change entirely; tests shouldn't.

Good tests are integration-style: they exercise real code paths through public APIs. They describe what the system does, not how it does it. A good test reads like a specification - "user can checkout with valid cart" tells you exactly what capability exists. These tests survive refactors because they don't care about internal structure.

Bad tests are coupled to implementation. They mock internal collaborators, test private methods, or verify through external means (like querying a database directly instead of using the interface). The warning sign: your test breaks when you refactor, but behavior hasn't changed. If you rename an internal function and tests fail, those tests were testing implementation, not behavior.

See tests.md for examples and mocking.md for mocking guidelines.

Anti-Pattern: Horizontal Slices

DO NOT write all tests first, then all implementation. This is "horizontal slicing" - treating RED as "write all tests" and GREEN as "write all code."

This produces crap tests:

  • Tests written in bulk test imagined behavior, not actual behavior
  • You end up testing the shape of things (data structures, function signatures) rather than user-facing behavior
  • Tests become insensitive to real changes - they pass when behavior breaks, fail when behavior is fine
  • You outrun your headlights, committing to test structure before understanding the implementation

Correct approach: Vertical slices via tracer bullets. One test → one implementation → repeat. Each test responds to what you learned from the previous cycle. Because you just wrote the code, you know exactly what behavior matters and how to verify it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 5d ago First seen · 112 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A e0cdd750247c

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tdd is a skill published in the GitHub repository sairam0424/MindForge (0 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 956 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to tdd, differing in 13 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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