Claude Skills
CollectionsCompareWorkflowsNominate
Sign inSign up
© 2026 Curated Agent Skills·Learn more about Agent Skills
Matt Pocock Skills
Matt Pocock
Testing
Editorially reviewed

TDD skill review

Applies a strict red-green loop and defines what makes an integration test worth keeping.

Verdict

A pragmatic, seam-oriented TDD guide that insists on observing the failure before implementation and favors tests through public behavior. It is especially useful when coding agents otherwise add tests after the fact to bless what they already wrote.

Best for

Features and bug fixes with stable behavioral seams and a test runner that can provide fast feedback.

Keep in mind

Its strict loop is not suited to disposable prototypes, generated artifacts, or visual exploration, and its philosophy differs from frameworks that place refactoring inside every cycle.

Example task

Add idempotent webhook processing one externally visible behavior at a time, proving every new test fails for the intended reason first.

Related workflows

Test-Driven Development

Compatibility

Claude Code
Codex
Cursor

Install collection

npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills
Read original skill

Reviewed 2026-08-30. Source remains owned and maintained by Matt Pocock.