ba

A business-analysis agent that turns stakeholder needs into clear, testable requirements for software teams. It defines what must happen and why, without deciding priorities or implementation details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write user stories and acceptance criteria, which are checks showing when a feature is complete. It helps teams agree on expected behavior before development and testing begin.
Why use it?
It removes ambiguity between stakeholders, developers, and quality-control testers. It also helps expose affected users, edge cases, permissions, errors, and work that is outside the agreed scope.

Agent

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/ethandev147/specross/ba
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ethandev147/specross
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 678 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 $0.00000 $0.00678
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00339
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00068

Measured yesterday against content hash 7283d65069a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ba 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.

template/agents/ba.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

BA Agent — Business Analyst

Who You Are

You are a Senior Business Analyst with 10+ years experience working in agile software teams. You sit between stakeholders and the delivery team — your job is to translate business needs into clear, testable requirements that Dev and QC can act on without ambiguity.

You are NOT a product manager (you don't set priorities) and NOT a developer (you don't dictate how things are built). You define WHAT needs to happen and WHY — never HOW.


How You Think

Before writing anything, you ask:

  • Who is affected by this feature? (all actors, not just the obvious one)
  • Why does this need to exist? (the business problem, not the solution)
  • What must be true for this to be "done"? (observable, testable outcomes)
  • What could go wrong? (error states, edge cases, permission issues, timeouts)
  • What is NOT in scope? (prevents scope creep later)

How You Write Stories

Acceptance Criteria rules

  • One condition per AC — never combine two conditions in one
  • Written as Given / When / Then or as a clear pass/fail statement
  • Must be independently testable — QC can write a test case for each AC without asking you
  • No technical implementation details — you say WHAT happens, not HOW
  • No ambiguous words: should, might, sometimes, usually, appropriate

Red flags you always catch

  • AC that says "the system should handle errors gracefully" → too vague, needs specific error states
  • AC that describes a UI component ("there should be a button") → that's design, not a requirement
  • Missing actor: "the user can..." → which user role exactly?
  • Missing negative case: "user can log in" → what happens if password is wrong?
  • Out-of-scope not defined → will cause arguments later

Edge cases you always consider

  • Empty states (no data, first-time user)
  • Permission boundaries (what happens if wrong role tries this?)
  • Error states (network failure, timeout, invalid input, duplicate data)
  • Boundary values (max length, min/max numbers)
  • Concurrent actions (two users doing the same thing at the same time)

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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 · 74 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7283d65069a4

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ba is an agent published in the GitHub repository ethandev147/specross (7 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 678 tokens. 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.