test-driven-development

A software-development practice that starts with a failing automated test, then adds code to make it pass.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing code alongside tests and following a test-first development process.
Why use it?
It helps catch mistakes early by checking expected behaviour before changes are made.

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/sergei-aronsen/claude-code-toolkit/test-driven-development
Any agent
npx skills add sergei-aronsen/claude-code-toolkit --skill test-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sergei-aronsen/claude-code-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 14 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 $0.00000 $0.00014
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00007
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00003
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00001

Measured 2d ago against content hash eceb2f42a1d9, 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.

scripts/tests/fixtures/sp-cache/superpowers/5.0.7/skills/test-driven-development/SKILL.md · 2 lines

What it actually says

SP-SKILL-test-driven-development-5.0.7

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 · 2 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A eceb2f42a1d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

test-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository sergei-aronsen/claude-code-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 14 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.

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