How are you increasing efficiency while using tdd-guard?

[JamesArnoldHTT]

I really love this project! Fantastic idea and something I think will really help the long term code quality of the projects I'm working on with Claude. The efficiency right now of using tdd-guard though is really low in my opinion and the iteration cycles are high. I cannot get Claude to actually collaborate with tdd-guard instead of fighting with it. I would love for Claude to actually know to code in this style instead of getting the feedback and figuring it out like its 50 first dates lol

How are you all solving this? Claude.md with the specific tdd-guard call outs? I'm curious to hear your opinions. I've implemented sub-agents that have tdd-guard specific knowledge and have pointed call outs on how the code should be written which is helping but still isn't great.

[nizos]

I honestly feel that the new instructions in version 0.10 are not as good as the ones before. The previous ones where created and improved incrementally through dog-fooding, the work of at least 500 hours.

I think I'll revert to the previous instructions tomorrow in a patch fix and instead continue to improve them incrementally instead of completely revising them like i did.

As for the efficiency, @maledorak tipped me on using the claude code sdk instead of the cli and i noticed through early experimentation that it could cut the validation time in half. I think thst will make a huge difference! We are both working on those improvements. I think also has some ideas to improves efficiency further.

Thanks for starting this discussion! Looking forward to reading more thoughts and ideas!

[JamesArnoldHTT]

The Claude SDK call out is really interesting - I'm looking forward to those improvements! I appreciate all your time and effort nizos.

[tfriedel]

why would claude code sdk (or agent sdk) be better? I worry that it would mostly just cost more, since AFAIK you can't use your max subscription but need to use API keys.

[nizos]

I've just released version 0.11.0 which restores the original validation prompts that were refined through extensive real-world use.
Note: Delete .claude/tdd-guard/data/instructions.md after upgrading to v0.11.0 to get the improved default instructions.

[JamesArnoldHTT]

Oh that's great to hear! I really appreciate you doing that so quickly. I'm looking forward to trying the prompts and I'll report back.