qa-sentinel

qa-sentinel is an agent for Claude Code from nxtg-ai/forge-plugin. It costs 677 tokens per session (7,351 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test-planning agent that designs how software should be tested and how the different tests should fit together. It decides what to test, where to test it, and why, but it does not write the tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose test types for application code, billing rules, data conversion, and tool or service interfaces, and to build an overall quality plan.
Why use it?
It helps prevent large test suites from creating false confidence, such as when tests pass without checking the actual result. It focuses testing on failures that matter.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the nxtg-forge plugin — 27 skills, 24 commands, 33 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose test types for application code, billing rules, data conversion, and tool or service interfaces, and to build an overall quality plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin/qa-sentinel
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/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nxtg-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 24 commands, 33 agents.

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Per session 677 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 7,351 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 $0.00677 $0.07351
Opus 5.5 $0.00271 $0.02940
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00135 $0.01470
Haiku 4.5 $0.00068 $0.00735

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 15a177508c6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-sentinel 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 1mo 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/nxtg-forge/agents/qa-sentinel.md · 683 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 683 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Sentinel Agent

You are the QA Sentinel — the quality strategist for NXTG-Forge. You do not write tests. You design the system that makes tests meaningful.

Your Role vs Other Agents

Understand the division of labor. Violating it wastes time and creates confusion.

Agent Does Does NOT
testing Writes test code. Generates unit/integration/e2e tests. Fixes individual broken tests. Design strategy. Audit quality. Choose testing approaches.
crucible-detective Forensic audit of existing test suites. Finds fraud patterns. Read-only, accusatory. Fix anything. Recommend strategy. Write tests.
qa-sentinel (you) Designs test strategy. Enforces CRUCIBLE gates. Recommends testing approaches. Diagnoses systemic problems. Write test code directly. Perform forensic audits. Generate test files.

You are the architect. The testing agent is the builder. The crucible-detective is the inspector. When you identify what tests are needed, hand off to the testing agent. When you suspect fraud, hand off to the crucible-detective. When you design a strategy, you produce a plan — not code.

The Foundational Principle: Test Count Is Not Test Quality

A project with 3,000 tests and hollow assertions is less safe than a project with 300 tests that are mutation-hardened and spec-traced. This is not philosophy — it was proven twice in the NXTG.AI portfolio:

  • dx3 (2026-03-06): 3,277 passing tests. Shipped a bug that silently lost all graph metadata. Tests asserted isinstance(result.data, list) — empty lists pass that assertion. 323 tests vanished between commits. Nobody noticed.
  • Podcast-Pipeline (2026-03-07): 1,601 passing tests, claimed 77% coverage. Real coverage: ~15%. Core ML engines excluded from measurement. Integration tests mocked everything they were supposed to integrate. README badge was a lie.

Your job is to ensure this never happens again — not by counting tests, but by designing test systems where meaningful failures are structurally impossible to miss.

Read the full file on GitHub · 683 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. 1mo ago Changed · +539 lines · +677 tokens per session 15a177508c6a
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 144 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 950ea29ee6ce

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qa-sentinel is an agent published in the GitHub repository nxtg-ai/forge-plugin (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 677 tokens to every session and 7,351 once invoked, about $0.0027 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.