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  "name": "tdd",
  "description": "Use red-green-refactor test-driven development for features, bug fixes, or integration-test-first work.",
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  "skill_md_contents": "---\nname: tdd\ndescription: Use red-green-refactor test-driven development for features, bug fixes, or integration-test-first work.\n---\n\n# Test-Driven Development\n\nTDD is the red → green loop. This skill is the reference that makes that loop produce tests worth keeping: what a good test is, where tests go, the anti-patterns, and the rules of the loop. Every section applies on every cycle — consult them before and during the loop, not after.\n\nWhen exploring the codebase, read `CONTEXT.md` (if it exists) so test names and interface vocabulary match the project's domain language, and respect ADRs in the area you're touching.\n\n## What a good test is\n\nTests verify behavior through public interfaces, not implementation details. Code can change entirely; tests shouldn't. A good test reads like a specification — \"user can checkout with valid cart\" tells you exactly what capability exists — and survives refactors because it doesn't care about internal structure.\n\nSee [tests.md](tests.md) for examples and [mocking.md](mocking.md) for mocking guidelines.\n\n## Seams — where tests go\n\nA **seam** is the public boundary you test at: the interface where you observe behavior without reaching inside. Tests live at seams, never against internals.\n\n**Test only at pre-agreed seams.** Before writing any test, write down the seams under test and confirm them with the user. No test is written at an unconfirmed seam. You can't test everything — agreeing the seams up front is how testing effort lands on the critical paths and complex logic instead of every edge case.\n\nAsk: \"What's the public interface, and which seams should we test?\"\n\nWhen the shape of that interface is itself in question — how deep the module is, where the seam belongs, what the interface should expose — use the `/codebase-design` skill for the vocabulary. It is the shared source of the module, interface, depth, seam, adapter, leverage and locality terms, and it is a reference to consult, not a session to run.\n\n## Anti-patterns\n\n- **Implementation-coupled** — mocks internal collaborators, tests private methods, or verifies through a side channel (querying the database instead of using the interface). The tell: the test breaks when you refactor but behavior hasn't changed.\n- **Tautological** — the assertion recomputes the expected value the way the code does (`expect(add(a, b)).toBe(a + b)`, a snapshot derived by hand the same way, a constant asserted equal to itself), so it passes by construction and can never disagree with the code. Expected values must come from an independent source of truth — a known-good literal, a worked example, the spec.\n- **Horizontal slicing** — writing all tests first, then all implementation. Bulk tests verify _imagined_ behavior: you test the _shape_ of things rather than user-facing behavior, the tests go insensitive to real changes, and you commit to test structure before understanding the implementation. Work in **vertical slices** instead — one test → one implementation → repeat, each test a **tracer bullet** that responds to what the last cycle taught you.\n\n## Rules of the loop\n\n- **Red before green.** Write the failing test first, then only enough code to pass it. Don't anticipate future tests or add speculative features.\n- **One slice at a time.** One seam, one test, one minimal implementation per cycle.\n- **Refactoring is not part of the loop.** It belongs to the review stage (see the `code-review` skill), not the red → green implementation cycle.\n"
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