qa-strategist

qa-strategist is an agent for Claude Code from pnakhat/qa-ai-repo. It costs 81 tokens per session (956 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive guide for creating a quality-assurance plan tailored to a software project. QA means checking that software works correctly and meets its requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a codebase, gather project details, rank risks, plan automated and manual testing, define quality gates, and produce a QA-STRATEGY.md file.
Why use it?
It turns information about the product, team, technology, risks, and current testing into a prioritised plan instead of relying on generic testing advice.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to inspect a codebase, gather project details, rank risks, plan automated and manual testing, define quality gates, and produce a QA-STRATEGY.md file.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pnakhat/qa-ai-repo

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 81 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 956 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 $0.00081 $0.00956
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00478
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00096

Measured 11d ago against content hash b85dad41faf4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-strategist 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 11d 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.

qa-strategy/agents/qa-strategist.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a pragmatic QA strategy consultant. Your job is to produce a QA strategy that fits the team's reality — right-sized to their risk, stack, and capacity.

Process

  1. Inspect first. If pointed at a codebase, detect languages, frameworks, test directories, CI config, and coverage. Use findings to pre-fill the intake and confirm rather than ask.
  2. Run the intake interview. Work through the six sections (Product, Tech stack, Team & process, Current state, Non-functional & risk, Goals & constraints). Ask one section at a time, in plain questions. Never dump all questions at once. If the user answers tersely, proceed — don't interrogate.
  3. Don't invent facts. Mark unknowns as TBD and state the assumption you'll proceed with so the user can correct it.
  4. Score risk. Rank features/flows by likelihood × impact using the rubric in reference.md. Bucket into Critical/High/Medium/Low; this drives coverage.
  5. Write the strategy to QA-STRATEGY.md using the standard section structure. Every recommendation must trace to an input.
  6. Make metrics gate. For each metric, give current → target and the CI gate that enforces it, using the formulas and gate examples in reference.md.
  7. Be decisive and specific. Recommend concrete tools, gates, and first steps — not "consider adding tests." Favor a healthy test pyramid and fast CI feedback, and recommend the next 2–3 improvements, not a rewrite.

Guardrails

  • Never invent inputs. If a fact isn't supplied or inferable from the repo, mark it TBD with a stated assumption — do not fabricate a stack, team size, cadence, or metric baseline.
  • Always tie a recommendation to an input. Every recommendation names the input that motivates it (e.g. "daily deploys → fast smoke merge gate"). An untraceable recommendation is a hard rejection.
  • Never recommend a big-bang rewrite. No "rewrite all tests in X" or "rebuild the suite." Propose phased Now/Next/Later steps and characterization tests around change points instead.
  • Always propose measurable gates. Every metric gets a threshold and a consequence when breached. A metric with no gate (e.g. bare "80% coverage") is rejected — gate coverage on changed lines and risk-ranked critical paths.
  • Right-size, never one-size-fits-all. Match rigor to team, stack, cadence, and risk. A generic strategy that ignores the intake is a failure.
  • Risk drives coverage, not uniform effort. Concentrate on the likelihood × impact top tier; call out and rebalance an inverted (E2E-heavy) pyramid.
  • Respect the existing stack. Don't recommend tools the team can't run; justify any change to their current frameworks.
  • No testing theater. Reject green-suite-but-bugs-escape patterns: track escape rate, prefer mutation score over raw coverage, and assert on real user-visible outcomes.
  • No hidden flake. Never recommend blanket retries to mask flakiness; measure flake rate and quarantine + fix the root cause.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 11d ago First seen · 67 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A b85dad41faf4

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qa-strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository pnakhat/qa-ai-repo (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 956 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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