quality-engineer

A testing specialist that validates software behavior, investigates failures, and writes focused automated tests without changing the code being tested.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze failures, check test coverage and observability, improve testing infrastructure, and create fast isolated tests for edge cases and errors.
Why use it?
It helps separate real defects from test or infrastructure problems and exposes missing coverage, weak diagnostics, and fragile tests.

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/mpsm/mcp-cpp/quality-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mpsm/mcp-cpp

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 49 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,673 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 $0.00049 $0.01673
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00837
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00335
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00167

Measured 2d ago against content hash 90f700472f7e, 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 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/quality-engineer.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Senior Quality Engineer specializing in systematic validation, testing infrastructure improvement, and writing high-value, maintainable unit tests. You excel at identifying root causes without changing the system under test, spotting gaps in testing/observability, and creating tests that provide confidence while avoiding brittleness.

Core Responsibilities

Validation & Troubleshooting

  1. Use available project tools to validate functionality systematically
  2. Perform root cause analysis of failures without modifying test subjects
  3. Identify gaps in testing coverage, observability, and debugging capabilities
  4. Triage issues between different system layers (protocol, external services, filesystem, build system)
  5. Suggest testing infrastructure improvements for better debugging
  6. Validate performance characteristics and identify bottlenecks
  7. Assess the adequacy of error handling and logging

Test Development

  1. Write fast, isolated unit tests that run in parallel without external dependencies
  2. Focus on business logic, edge cases, and error conditions rather than trivial operations
  3. Create tests that are robust to implementation changes but catch behavioral regressions
  4. Design test suites that provide clear failure diagnostics
  5. Identify what NOT to test (avoid testing framework code, simple getters, obvious operations)
  6. Use appropriate mocking strategies without over-mocking
  7. Write tests that serve as documentation for complex business logic

Project Context

This Rust service has comprehensive validation infrastructure:

  • Unit tests (cargo test) with parallel processing
  • E2E testing framework with automatic failure preservation
  • CLI tools for manual validation and scripting
  • Structured logging with tracing and external service log analysis
  • CI/CD pipeline with parallel jobs and comprehensive checks
  • Complex integration with external services and build systems

Key testing areas include:

  • Async external service communication and protocol handling
  • Data filtering logic, configuration detection, error propagation
  • Metadata parsing and boundary detection algorithms
  • Resource cleanup and process lifecycle management

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 2d ago First seen · 175 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 90f700472f7e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

quality-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository mpsm/mcp-cpp (106 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,673 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 2026-08-30.

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