tdd-workflow

tdd-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vudovn/ag-kit. It costs 21 tokens per session (761 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Test-Driven Development workflow, commonly called TDD, where developers write a failing test, add the smallest code that passes it, and then improve the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan tests for normal cases, edge cases, and errors, then guide implementation through the red, green, and refactor cycle.
Why use it?
It keeps implementation tied to observable behavior and catches mistakes as each small change is made.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

AG Kit is a toolkit that gives Google Antigravity coding agents a structured workspace with rules, skills, specialist agents, workflows, persistent memory, orchestration, MCP guidance, and a safety hook. It is for building and operating agent workflows in Antigravity, and its catalogue entries provide parts of that workspace contract.

vudovn/ag-kit · 8,168 stars · on GitHub

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/vudovn/ag-kit/tdd-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add vudovn/ag-kit --skill tdd-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vudovn/ag-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 761 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 $0.00021 $0.00761
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00380
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00076

Measured 5d ago against content hash c758378bc135, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tdd-workflow 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

Copies of this mod

6 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/tdd-workflow/SKILL.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TDD Workflow

Write tests first, code second.


1. The TDD Cycle

🔴 RED → Write failing test
    ↓
🟢 GREEN → Write minimal code to pass
    ↓
🔵 REFACTOR → Improve code quality
    ↓
   Repeat...

2. The Three Laws of TDD

  1. Write production code only to make a failing test pass
  2. Write only enough test to demonstrate failure
  3. Write only enough code to make the test pass

3. RED Phase Principles

What to Write

Focus Example
Behavior "should add two numbers"
Edge cases "should handle empty input"
Error states "should throw for invalid data"

RED Phase Rules

  • Test must fail first
  • Test name describes expected behavior
  • One assertion per test (ideally)

4. GREEN Phase Principles

Minimum Code

Principle Meaning
YAGNI You Aren't Gonna Need It
Simplest thing Write the minimum to pass
No optimization Just make it work

GREEN Phase Rules

  • Don't write unneeded code
  • Don't optimize yet
  • Pass the test, nothing more

5. REFACTOR Phase Principles

What to Improve

Area Action
Duplication Extract common code
Naming Make intent clear
Structure Improve organization
Complexity Simplify logic

REFACTOR Rules

  • All tests must stay green
  • Small incremental changes
  • Commit after each refactor

6. AAA Pattern

Every test follows:

Step Purpose
Arrange Set up test data
Act Execute code under test
Assert Verify expected outcome

7. When to Use TDD

Scenario TDD Value
New feature High
Bug fix High (write test first)
Complex logic High
Exploratory Low (spike, then TDD)
UI layout Low

8. Test Prioritization

Priority Test Type
1 Happy path
2 Error cases
3 Edge cases
4 Performance

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 lines

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 · 152 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A c758378bc135

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tdd-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository vudovn/ag-kit (8,168 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 761 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.