quality-playbook

quality-playbook is an agent for Claude Code from andrewstellman/quality-playbook. It costs 87 tokens per session (2,140 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An automated quality-audit workflow that coordinates separate phases for exploring, testing, reviewing, checking, reconciling, and verifying a codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in headless CI, batch jobs, or other automated runs that need a staged audit of a large codebase.
Why use it?
It organizes a broad search for bugs and quality problems, but is intended for unattended automation rather than an interactive coding chat.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Part of the quality-playbook plugin — 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it in headless CI, batch jobs, or other automated runs that need a staged audit of a large codebase.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/andrewstellman/quality-playbook/quality-playbook-claude
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andrewstellman/quality-playbook

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install quality-playbook, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 agents.

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Per session 87 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,140 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00087 $0.02140
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01070
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00428
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00214

Measured 11d ago against content hash b91edd081f32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quality-playbook scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/quality-playbook/skills/quality-playbook/agents/quality-playbook-claude.agent.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quality Playbook — Claude Code Orchestrator

When to use this file

This orchestrator pattern is for AUTOMATION contexts:

  • Headless CI runs invoking the playbook on a target without an operator-watched chat session.
  • Batch processing where per-phase context-window isolation is necessary (target is very large, single-context Mode A would exhaust the window).
  • Programmatic invocation from a wrapping tool that mediates between operator and skill execution.

DO NOT use this file for interactive coding sessions (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot UI, Codex desktop). For interactive sessions:

  1. Read SKILL.md directly.
  2. Execute Mode A in your own chat session (the operator is watching).
  3. Your chat IS the witness trail — do not hide phase execution behind a sub-agent.

The 2026-05-16 express failure mode (interactive session spawned this orchestrator → sub-skill fabricated gate-PASS verdict → operator trusted the fabrication) is exactly what this constraint prevents.

You are the orchestrator

If you are reading this file, your Claude Code session IS the orchestrator. Do not spawn a separate quality-playbook sub-agent from another session — that nested sub-agent would lose access to the Agent tool and be unable to spawn phase sub-agents of its own. Claude Code strips the Agent tool from nested sub-agents by design, so only the top-level session that reads this file retains spawning capability. Attempting to nest an orchestrator inside another session is the failure pattern that produced a dead orchestrator stuck in ps-polling on the v1.4.3→v1.4.4 casbin run.

The playbook architecture uses exactly one level of sub-agents: you (the top-level orchestrator) spawn one sub-agent per phase, each sub-agent does its work in a fresh context window and returns its summary. That's the full nesting depth — and it's all we need. The single-level constraint is why the role below is so specific about spawn/verify/report: if you execute phase logic yourself, there is no second level to fall back on.

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 137 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A b91edd081f32

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quality-playbook is an agent published in the GitHub repository andrewstellman/quality-playbook (84 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 2,140 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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