Test-Driven Development workflow with session integration. Use when implementing features/bugfixes to enforce RED-GREEN-REFACTOR discipline. Integrates with session-management for enhanced TDD session tracking, checkpoints, and metrics.
View on GitHubFebruary 1, 2026
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npx add-skill https://github.com/AnthemFlynn/ccmp/blob/main/plugins/tdd-workflow/skills/tdd-workflow/SKILL.md -a claude-code --skill tdd-workflowInstallation paths:
.claude/skills/tdd-workflow/# Test-Driven Development (TDD) Workflow
## Overview
Write the test first. Watch it fail. Write minimal code to pass.
**Core principle:** If you didn't watch the test fail, you don't know if it tests the right thing.
**Violating the letter of the rules is violating the spirit of the rules.**
## When to Use
**Always:**
- New features
- Bug fixes
- Refactoring
- Behavior changes
**Exceptions (ask your human partner):**
- Throwaway prototypes
- Generated code
- Configuration files
Thinking "skip TDD just this once"? Stop. That's rationalization.
## Session-Management Integration
**Enhanced when session-management is active:**
If session has "TDD" in objective or uses `--tdd` flag:
- Automatic RED-GREEN-REFACTOR checkpoint tracking
- Test coverage metrics in session report
- TDD cycle enforcement (blocks skipping steps)
- Session handoff includes test statistics
**Works standalone without session-management** - all core TDD functionality available.
## The Iron Law
```
NO PRODUCTION CODE WITHOUT A FAILING TEST FIRST
```
Write code before the test? Delete it. Start over.
**No exceptions:**
- Don't keep it as "reference"
- Don't "adapt" it while writing tests
- Don't look at it
- Delete means delete
Implement fresh from tests. Period.
## Red-Green-Refactor
```
RED → Verify RED → GREEN → Verify GREEN → REFACTOR → Repeat
```
### RED - Write Failing Test
Write one minimal test showing what should happen.
**Good:**
```typescript
test('retries failed operations 3 times', async () => {
let attempts = 0;
const operation = () => {
attempts++;
if (attempts < 3) throw new Error('fail');
return 'success';
};
const result = await retryOperation(operation);
expect(result).toBe('success');
expect(attempts).toBe(3);
});
```
Clear name, tests real behavior, one thing.
**Bad:**
```typescript
test('retry works', async () => {
const mock = jest.fn()
.mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error())
.mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error())
.mockReso