tdd-writer SKILL.md skillA

tdd-writer from flagrare/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add flagrare/agent-skills/tdd-writer@git:20261008.226e3e6

Pins git:20261008.226e3e6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
flagrare/agent-skills
Path
plugins/flagrare/skills/tdd-writer/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
7
Latest version
git:20261008.226e3e6, committed Oct 8, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 25, 2026
Size
21,425 bytes
Repository stars
13
License
none declared

Draft comprehensive Technical Design Documents. Analyzes codebase, fetches ticket/design/doc context via MCP. Every technical claim is verified against actual code. Unverified information is explicitly marked. Use when the user wants to write a TDD, create a technical design document, plan a large engineering project, or says 'write a TDD'.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# TDD Writer

Draft Technical Design Documents for staging up large or complex projects. A TDD is a communication tool: a reader who has never seen the work should be able to read it start to finish and come away understanding **what** you're proposing, **why**, and **how** it will be built. It is not a form to fill in, and it is not a checklist with the prose removed.

**REQUIRED BACKGROUND:** Invoke `/flagrare:write-docs` before drafting. This skill owns *what a TDD must cover and how to verify it*; write-docs owns *how to make the prose readable*. The single most common failure of an AI-drafted TDD is the "medicine sheet", every section flattened into terse bullets, no causality, nothing a human wants to read. The craft layer in write-docs is the antidote, and the section "Writing the document" below applies it specifically to TDDs. Read both; do not skip the handoff.

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## When to Use

- Projects estimated at 2+ weeks
- Complex features with multiple components
- Architectural changes affecting multiple services
- Features requiring cross-team coordination
- User says "write a TDD", "design doc", "technical design"

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## No Assumptions Policy
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add flagrare/agent-skills/tdd-writer@sha256:027871446aeb9d53

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.226e3e6, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Jun 25, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026, about one every 18 days.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (21425 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

flagrare/agent-skills · 13 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2n4xtzeqnehjyfyr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=flagrare/agent-skills/tdd-writer
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/027871446aeb9d53d71e5a9b1ee649e382397cdbe6bacad8a1a44c672d1921ea

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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