tdd SKILL.md skillA
tdd from genai-io/san is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add genai-io/san/tdd@git:20260717.120e9bbPins git:20260717.120e9bb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- genai-io/san
- Path
.san/personas/software-engineer/skills/tdd/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260717.120e9bb, committed Jul 17, 2026
- Size
- 2,737 bytes
- Repository stars
- 147
- License
- Apache-2.0
Test-driven development — write a failing test that names the behavior, watch it fail, implement the minimum to make it pass, then refactor with tests green. Works for new features, bug fixes, and behavior changes. Use when the user says "tdd", "test-first", "write tests first", or wants a change built test-first.
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: red, green, refactor Write the test before the code. A test written first specifies the behavior, fails for a known reason, and gives you a definition of done you can run. A test written after tends to describe whatever the code happens to do — bugs included. ## Step 1: Find the test runner Don't assume the command. Detect how this project runs and writes tests: look at existing test files for the framework and conventions, and at the build/config for the invocation (`go test ./...`, `npm test`, `pytest`, `cargo test`, …). Match what's already there — same framework, same layout, same style. ## Step 2: Name the behavior as tests (RED) State the change as concrete cases before writing any implementation: - The main success path — the behavior actually requested. - The edges — empty, zero, boundary, maximum, unexpected input. - The failures — what should error, and how it should error. Write these as tests. For a bug fix, the first test **reproduces the bug**. Keep each test focused on one behavior with a clear name. ## Step 3: Watch them fail Run the tests and confirm they fail — and fail for the *right* reason (the …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add genai-io/san/tdd@sha256:949f986e0619ce78The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260717.120e9bb, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_whh2hi2f24aatkbo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 17, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2737 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
genai-io/san · 147 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_whh2hi2f24aatkbo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=genai-io/san/tdd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/949f986e0619ce787c582be44f7035754f75442b0ee94cd8920961ce9abbbd49
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.