behavior-implement

A test-first implementation workflow for one clearly defined software behavior. TDD, or test-driven development, means writing a failing test, making it pass, and then improving the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides changes through a red-green-refactor cycle, using existing code and test patterns and adding focused tests when the behavior is complex or failure-prone.
Why use it?
It helps confirm the intended behavior and protect it from regressions when focused automated tests are justified.

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/yarlson/yarstack/behavior-implement
Any agent
npx skills add yarlson/yarstack --skill behavior-implement
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yarlson/yarstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 599 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 $0.00048 $0.00599
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00060

Measured yesterday against content hash 22238808c4e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

behavior-implement 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/yarstack/skills/behavior-implement/SKILL.md · 30 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 30 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Test-Driven Implementation

Own the implementation cycle for one coherent observable behavior.

Keep the implementation simple and limited to current requirements. Reuse an existing source of truth when the same rule or knowledge would otherwise be maintained in more than one place, but do not combine unrelated behavior merely because the code looks similar. Add abstractions, flexibility, and configuration only when a concrete current need justifies them.

Workflow

  1. Read the requested behavior, repository instructions, and closest implementation and test patterns.
  2. Confirm that focused automated tests are proportionate. For engineering tooling and infrastructure, use this workflow only when native checks cannot credibly prove important behavior, concrete complexity or failure risk warrants regression coverage, and a focused deterministic test boundary fits the task. Otherwise leave this skill and use direct implementation with the applicable native checks.
  3. Identify the observable outcome, important side effects, and state preserved on failure. At each dependency boundary, name the supported contract that makes the outcome reliable. Do not base a guarantee on undocumented or incidental behavior, or claim more than the contract supports.
  4. Choose the smallest reliable mechanism with complexity and maintenance cost proportionate to the behavior. If no supported mechanism can meet the requirement without material scope growth, stop before implementation, explain the gap, and ask for direction instead of silently approximating the outcome.
  5. Use test-design when selecting the test level, cases, fixtures, or test boundary is non-trivial; otherwise extend the existing test pattern directly.
  6. Write the smallest focused test and confirm it fails because the behavior is missing or wrong. Treat the test as maintained product code. Reuse existing focused helpers, extract cohesive repeated setup without hiding scenario values, and prefer named table-driven cases only when they share one execution path.
  7. Change the minimum production code needed to pass without weakening the assertion.
  8. Refactor only as needed for clarity, rerunning the focused test after each behavior-preserving change.
  9. Use crap-index-assess when the request targets CRAP or the repository's configured CRAP check covers changed methods. Treat the result as maintainability evidence, not a replacement for behavioral tests.
  10. Run relevant surrounding tests and repository-required checks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 30 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. yesterday First seen · 30 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 22238808c4e0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

behavior-implement is a skill published in the GitHub repository yarlson/yarstack (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 599 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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