Develop TDD

Develop TDD is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by danielvm-git in bigpowers.

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Install Develop TDD

Copy Develop TDD into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers/tree/main/skills/develop-tdd ~/.claude/skills/develop-tdd

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/develop-tdd/SKILL.md in danielvm-git/bigpowers
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/develop-tdd
Collection: One of 23 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1817 skills

What Develop TDD does

Develop TDD guides test-driven development with a red-green-refactor loop using vertical slices. Use it for features or bugs when you need to plan first, write tests before code, and verify behavior through public interfaces.

Develop TDD is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Develop TDD comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, automation, bmad, claude-code and clean-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Develop TDD

HARD GATE — Do NOT proceed if on main or master. Run kickoff-branch first to create a feature branch or worktree.

HARD GATE — Do NOT write code before you have a plan. New feature: plan-work → epic capsule tasks. Bug: investigate-bug → specs/bugs/BUG-*.md (or use fix-bug orchestrator).

RECURSIVE DISCIPLINE — This lifecycle applies to EVERY task, including updating these skills. Never skip planning because a task is "meta" or "just documentation."

Philosophy

Tests verify behavior through public interfaces, not implementation details. A good test reads like a specification. See REFERENCE.md for the horizontal-slice anti-pattern and TDD phase detail.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Develop TDD

What else does danielvm-git publish alongside Develop TDD?
Develop TDD is one of 23 skills that DirSkills catalogs from danielvm-git/bigpowers, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Align Grid, Assess Impact and Audit Code. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Develop TDD does, and is maintained by danielvm-git in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the danielvm-git/bigpowers page.
How does Develop TDD compare to other Quality skills?
Develop TDD ranks #1729 by stars among the 1817 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Develop TDD against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.