xdd

xdd is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from stagentic/stagentic-xdd. It costs 37 tokens per session (137 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of xdd, MIT.

A set of test-driven development (TDD) rules for changing code. TDD means writing a test before the code that should make it pass.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding features, fixing bugs, or refactoring code to guide the test-first workflow.
Why use it?
It prevents production code from being written without a failing test first and encourages checking that tests fail for the expected reason.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when adding features, fixing bugs, or refactoring code to guide the test-first workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stagentic/stagentic-xdd/stage-04-fake-it-only
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 stagentic/stagentic-xdd --skill stage-04-fake-it-only
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stagentic/stagentic-xdd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 137 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 94% 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 $0.00037 $0.00137
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00055
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00027
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00014

Measured 23d ago against content hash a1e379de1131, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xdd 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 23d 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

94% identical to xdd — 4 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.

docs/lessons/20260701-0635-fake-it-until-you-triangulate-it/experiments/stage-04-fake-it-only-SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Apply the disciplines of TDD for adding or changing code overriding your understanding with the following principles:

Always write the test first

The test should always be written before the production code that makes it pass.

Failing for the right reason

A test fails for the right reason when it has an assertion failure where the actual result is not matching the expected result.

Making a test pass

Make a failing test pass using 'Fake-It'.

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. 23d ago First seen · 21 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A a1e379de1131

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xdd is a skill published in the GitHub repository stagentic/stagentic-xdd (5 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 137 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to xdd, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.