execute-tdd-tasks

execute-tdd-tasks is a skill for Claude Code from sequenzia/agent-alchemy. It costs 93 tokens per session (7,942 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task runner for test-first development that executes paired test and implementation tasks in waves, then checks the RED, GREEN, and REFACTOR stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run TDD task pairs, route different task types to the right coding agents, and report whether each pair followed the expected workflow.
Why use it?
It coordinates the correct order of test writing and implementation across a task list, while checking that tests fail before the fix and pass afterward. TDD means writing tests before the code they verify.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the agent-alchemy-tdd-tools plugin — 5 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to run TDD task pairs, route different task types to the right coding agents, and report whether each pair followed the expected workflow.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add sequenzia/agent-alchemy
Claude Code
/plugin install agent-alchemy-tdd-tools

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-alchemy-tdd-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,942 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 $0.00093 $0.07942
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.03971
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01588
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00794

Measured 4d ago against content hash f30bd0655823, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

execute-tdd-tasks 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 4d 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.

claude/tdd-tools/skills/execute-tdd-tasks/SKILL.md · 670 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 670 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Execute TDD Tasks Skill

This skill orchestrates autonomous execution of TDD task pairs generated by /create-tdd-tasks. It is the TDD counterpart to the standard execute-tasks skill, reusing its session management, wave infrastructure, and execution context sharing while adding TDD-specific agent routing, RED-GREEN-REFACTOR verification, and per-task compliance reporting.

The key difference from standard execute-tasks: this skill routes TDD tasks to the tdd-executor agent (from tdd-tools) which runs a 6-phase TDD workflow, while routing non-TDD tasks to the standard task-executor agent. It verifies TDD compliance (RED verified, GREEN verified, refactored) per task pair and reports aggregate results.

CRITICAL: Complete ALL 9 steps. The workflow is not complete until Step 9: Update CLAUDE.md is evaluated. After completing each step, immediately proceed to the next step without waiting for user prompts (except Step 4 which requires user confirmation).

Plugin Context

This skill is part of the tdd-tools plugin and uses agents from the same plugin:

  • tdd-executor agent (Opus) -- 6-phase TDD workflow per task
  • test-writer agent (Sonnet) -- parallel test generation (used by tdd-executor internally)

For non-TDD tasks, this skill routes to the task-executor agent from sdd-tools (soft cross-plugin dependency). Since TDD tasks are always generated from SDD tasks via /create-tasks, the sdd-tools plugin is expected to be installed when this skill runs.

Core Principles

1. TDD Compliance First

Every TDD task pair must complete the RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycle:

  • RED: Tests are written and verified to fail before any implementation exists
  • GREEN: Implementation is written that makes all tests pass with zero regressions
  • REFACTOR: Code is cleaned up while keeping all tests green

2. Strategic Parallelism

Maximize execution throughput without violating TDD sequencing:

  • PARALLEL: Multiple test-writing tasks (RED phase) run simultaneously across features
  • SEQUENTIAL: Within a single TDD pair, RED must complete before GREEN can start (enforced by dependencies)

Read the full file on GitHub · 670 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 4d ago First seen · 670 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A f30bd0655823

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execute-tdd-tasks is a skill published in the GitHub repository sequenzia/agent-alchemy (44 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 7,942 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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