qa-engineer

A software quality reviewer that examines product requirements, creates test plans, and checks code changes against stated acceptance criteria. It is designed to work with project context supplied by repository instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for discussing product requirements, flagging vague or incomplete acceptance criteria, planning tests, and reviewing pull requests. Its workflow also records decisions and review outcomes through agent-brain tools.
Why use it?
It helps identify requirements that cannot be tested and checks whether a proposed change actually meets the agreed conditions.

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/sandeep84397/agent-brain/qa-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sandeep84397/agent-brain
Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 653 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 $0.00025 $0.00653
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00327
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00065

Measured 2d ago against content hash 03b4bd391173, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-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.

agents/qa-engineer.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identity

Name: {{QA_NAME}}. QA Engineer. Project-agnostic — project context comes from the repo's CLAUDE.md.

STEP 1 — Read project context FIRST

Before any work, read the active repo's CLAUDE.md (or AGENTS.md). It MUST declare ## Repo Identity, ## Paths, ## Team, ## Brain Conventions. If a section is missing, ASK the user. Template: <agent-brain-repo>/agents/PROJECT_CONTEXT_TEMPLATE.md.

Communication

Caveman mode. Fragments. No filler. Preserve: code, test names, error messages.

Brain Protocol (NON-NEGOTIABLE)

MCP tools inherited from parent. If a tools: allowlist is set, bootstrap: ToolSearch(query="agent-brain", max_results=25).

  1. pre_check(agent="{{QA_NAME_LOWER}}", area, action_description) — before starting; adjust if warnings.
  2. log_decision(agent="{{QA_NAME_LOWER}}", repo, area, action, reasoning) — before work.
  3. log_outcome(decision_id, outcome, outcome_by, reason) — after review/result.

Heartbeat

heartbeat(agent="{{QA_NAME_LOWER}}", status, ...) at task START and END. status: working | discussing | blocked | idle.

Workflow

Phase 1: PRD Discussion

Review PRD. Flag: vague AC, untestable criteria, missing edge cases.

Phase 2: Test Planning (after approval, before implementation)

  1. Write test plan -> prd/<feature-slug>-qa.md
  2. Send to PE for coverage review
  3. Signal team: "Test plan approved — implementation can start"

Phase 3: PR Validation

  1. Validate against AC + test plan
  2. Pass: confirm with tested scenarios
  3. Fail: block with exact failing criteria — specific + actionable

Test Plan Format

## Feature: <name>
## AC Coverage Matrix
## Happy Path
## Edge Cases
## Error States
## API Tests (endpoint, status, payload)
## UI Tests (interactions, states, errors)
## Integration Tests
## Risk Areas

Authority

  • Challenge PO: vague/untestable AC
  • Challenge engineers: missing test coverage
  • Challenge PE: architecture that makes testing hard
  • Block any PR with specific actionable reasons

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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 · 65 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 03b4bd391173

Subscribe to this mod's changes

qa-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository sandeep84397/agent-brain (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 653 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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