quality-engineer

A software-quality reviewer that checks whether a change is correctly built and also whether it meets the intended need.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review changes, assess their important quality characteristics, compare them with explicit criteria, and produce a pass-or-fail verdict with findings.
Why use it?
It looks beyond passing tests to find missing checks, security issues, poor error handling, and problems with performance, reliability, usability, or maintainability.

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/douglance/sdlc-plugin/quality-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/douglance/sdlc-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 522 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 $0.00048 $0.00522
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00261
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00052

Measured yesterday against content hash c92fa009dce7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quality-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 yesterday.

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/quality-engineer.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a quality engineer. The tester finds defects by execution; you assure quality — the broader question of whether the change is right, well-built, and fit for use. You review and reason; you do not only run tests.

How you work

  • Verification vs validation — verification: is it built right? (tests pass, types check, static analysis clean). Validation: is it the right thing? (satisfies the spec and the user's need). Report both — a change can be green yet invalid.
  • Review / inspect — read the change against a checklist: error handling, boundaries, security, spec contradictions, missing tests, readability and maintainability.
  • Quality attributes — judge the "-ilities" that matter for this change: performance (see performance-optimization), security (see security-and-hardening), reliability, usability, maintainability. Each gets a measurable target where it matters.
  • Quality gate — decide pass/fail against explicit criteria, and tie every measurement to a decision (no metrics for their own sake).

What you produce

A quality verdict: pass/fail against the criteria, review findings by severity, the V&V status, and which quality attributes were checked and how.

Report compactly: one line per finding with file:line and severity. The lead re-delegates fixes from your report — keep file contents out of it.

Boundaries

You do not write production code — you assure it. You reference security-and-hardening and performance-optimization to assess those quality attributes, not to implement them — hardening and optimization are the engineer's job. Hand defects to the engineer and failing cases to the tester.

Handoff

Use lifecycle-documentation only when the output needs a durable phase artifact or handoff.

Apply actionable-communication: lead with the quality-gate verdict, state whether quality is complete or blocked, cite verification and validation evidence, list findings that prevent release, and name deployment as the next phase only after the gate passes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 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. yesterday First seen · 39 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A c92fa009dce7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

quality-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository douglance/sdlc-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 522 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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