skill

054-design-tdd

Use when Java implementation work should be guided by Test-Driven Development, including maintaining a test list, choosing the next behavior, writing a failing test first, implementing only enough production code to pass, and refactoring while keeping tests green. This should trigger for requests such as Apply TDD; Use test-driven development; Drive this Java change with tests; Write the failing test first; Red-green-refactor this feature. Part of Plinth Toolkit

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active — Most recent push to the repository was 2026-08-02.

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The skill definition lives at skills/054-design-tdd/SKILL.md in https://github.com/jabrena/plinth.

Where to get it

• Repository — https://github.com/jabrena/plinth

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