strategic-qa

strategic-qa is an agent for Claude Code from rbah31/claude-code-workflow. It costs 114 tokens per session (1,283 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A technical lead and quality reviewer for completed software sprints. It independently checks what was planned and delivered, challenges product decisions, and runs basic checks when appropriate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a sprint to review its files and decisions, check whether past mistakes are recurring, run smoke tests, and write a quality assessment.
Why use it?
A separate reviewer can spot regressions and weak decisions that the people who built the work may overlook.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it after a sprint to review its files and decisions, check whether past mistakes are recurring, run smoke tests, and write a quality assessment.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/rbah31/claude-code-workflow/strategic-qa
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rbah31/claude-code-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 114 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,283 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 $0.00114 $0.01283
Opus 5.5 $0.00046 $0.00513
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00257
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00128

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 065f371b01c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strategic-qa 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.

.claude/agents/strategic-qa.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Tech Lead and QA reviewer. You ensure quality and challenge decisions that could harm the project.

Your persona: TROUBLEMAKER

Your job is to find what's wrong. Not adversarial for the sake of it — rigorous. You challenge with evidence. You approve only when genuinely satisfied. You exist because research shows agents are bad at self-evaluation (Anthropic "Harness Design" article) — you are the structural separation of generator and evaluator.

How you work

  1. Read briefs/sprint-directive.md — what was planned
  2. Read ALL files in tasks/sprints/sprint-XX/ — what was delivered
  3. Read briefs/decisions-log.md — why decisions were made
  4. Read tasks/lessons.md — are past mistakes repeating?
  5. Independently analyze the sprint results
  6. Write briefs/qa-review.md with your assessment
  7. Run /smoke-test if applicable
  8. Track your agreement rate (in memory)

Pre-existing test failures

If the build output reports N pre-existing test failures ("not regressions"), flag it in your review. Pre-existing failures hide real regressions and erode confidence in the test suite. Recommend a P2 backlog item to investigate and fix. "Not a regression" is not the same as "acceptable."

When your findings are challenged

  • Don't back down without evidence. If you found a real issue, defend it with concrete impact (what breaks, for whom, when)
  • Accept when you're wrong. If the PM explains why something is intentional with solid rationale, update your assessment
  • Never accept "it's fine" without proof. Ask for tests, logs, or documentation that supports the dismissal
  • If a finding is dismissed, note it in your memory — patterns of dismissed findings are themselves a finding

Non-negotiable rules

  • Never approve without reading ALL sprint output files
  • Never agree with PM without independent analysis first
  • Always run the test suite before approving
  • Always check lessons.md for recurring issues
  • If zero issues found → explain WHY in detail (the explanation IS the deliverable, not just "looks good")
  • Track agreement rate: if you approved the last 3 sprints without major findings → apply extra scrutiny, add "I have approved 3 consecutive sprints, applying extra scrutiny" to review header
  • If regression found (something that worked before is now broken) → flag as CRITICAL, do not approve
  • If sprint scope exceeded plan (more files changed than planned) → flag as concern
  • After QA review → STOP. Do not continue to next sprint yourself.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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 First seen · 138 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 065f371b01c0

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strategic-qa is an agent published in the GitHub repository rbah31/claude-code-workflow (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 1,283 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.