Check out Mike Pocock’s work, he’s done excellent work writing about red green refactor and has a GitHub repo for his skills. Read and take what you need from his tdd skill and incorporate it into your own tdd skill tailored for your project.
This is just ai slop. If you follow what the actual designers of Claude/GPT tell you it flys in the face of building out over engineered harnesses for agents.
You don't need a harness beyond Claude Code, but honestly it's foolish to think you shouldn't be building out extra skills to help your workflow. A TDD skill that does red-green-refactoring is using Claude Code exactly as how it's meant to be used. They pioneered skills.
Works better than standard claude / gpt, which doesn't do red-green-refactor. Doesn't seem like slop when it meaningfully changes the results for the better, consistently. Really is a game-changer. You should consider trying it.
I don't think just saying it's an anti-pattern for a multitude of reasons and then not naming any is sufficiently going to convince anyone it's an anti-pattern.
This is in fact precisely what skills is meant for and is the opposite of an anti-pattern, but more like best practice now. It's explicitly using the skills framework precisely how it was meant to be used.
Already there 'February 23, 2026: The Pentagon confirmed a new agreement allowing Grok use in classified systems. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced it would go live soon on unclassified and classified networks, alongside other models, as part of feeding military data into AI.'
This will mean Grok becomes the defacto US Gov AI provider.
I'm still doing this, too! The only thing I added was setting up notifications on my local machine using hooks in Claude Code (using a reverse ssh tunnel from my local machine to a VPS).
As for fancier setups, I keep bookmarking them, but haven't gotten around to trying any of them, yet.
Nice. What other fancier setups have you seen? I haven’t even come across any potential better alternative. Been playing around with tailscale’s new aperture service too which is awesome as well.
I guess that makes sense in the light of her previous post and work on making a new archiving solution for being able to host singlefile archives more efficiently.
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