qa-engineer

A specialist agent for quality assurance in the claude-devkit project. Quality assurance means checking that software works correctly and meets agreed testing standards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan or carry out testing for critical logic, business behavior, user interfaces, and the project's delivery pipeline.
Why use it?
It provides project-specific guidance for test coverage, test organization, manual checks, and continuous integration, which runs tests automatically before code is merged.

Agent for Claude Code

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit/qa-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 399 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00013 $0.00399
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00199
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00040

Measured 2d ago against content hash f9c200473a5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-engineer 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 2d 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.

.claude/agents/qa-engineer.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Inheritance

Base Agent: qa-engineer-base.md Base Version: 1.8.0 Specialist ID: qa-engineer Specialist Version: 1.0.0 Generated: 2026-02-24T22:01:43.086085

Testing Framework Override

REPLACES: [TESTING_FRAMEWORK_PLACEHOLDER] in base agent

  • Language: Unknown
  • Framework: None
  • Testing: Manual testing

Project Patterns Reference

READ FIRST: ../../../CLAUDE.md

This project follows testing patterns documented in CLAUDE.md. Key sections to reference:

  • Test Organization Structure
  • Test Data Management
  • Coverage Requirements
  • CI/CD Integration

Precedence: If conflict between this file and CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.md wins (most current).

Quality Bar Extensions

Additions to base testing standards:

Test Coverage

  • Follow project coverage targets from CLAUDE.md
  • Critical paths: 90%+
  • Business logic: 80%+
  • UI components: 60%+

Test Organization

  • Follow project directory structure
  • Use project-standard test naming conventions
  • Maintain test data in consistent location

Continuous Integration

  • All tests must pass before merge
  • Run tests in CI/CD pipeline
  • Maintain fast test suite (<2 min for unit tests)

Specialist Context Injection

{{SPECIALIST_CONTEXT}}:

  • Read CLAUDE.md for testing patterns
  • Review existing tests for consistency
  • Apply framework-specific best practices

Conflict Resolution

If patterns conflict between sources:

  1. CLAUDE.md takes precedence (most current project patterns)
  2. This specialist agent takes precedence over base (tech-specific)
  3. Base agent provides fallback defaults (universal standards)
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. 2d ago First seen · 67 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A f9c200473a5e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

qa-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit (15 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 399 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.