qa-quality-engineer

An agent role for a senior quality engineer who designs tests and checks software after changes are integrated. It covers regression cases, edge cases, integration scenarios, and a manual verification plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect an integrated change, add or update tests in test-related files, cover malformed or missing inputs and other failure modes, and document checks that should be performed manually.
Why use it?
It catches failures that happy-path tests miss while keeping test work separate from production-code changes. The role also makes the remaining manual checks explicit for the reviewer.

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/shipwrights/core/qa-quality-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shipwrights/core
Per session 67 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,067 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 $0.00067 $0.01067
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00534
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00107

Measured yesterday against content hash d94e314c4ebb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-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 yesterday.

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-quality-engineer.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA quality engineer

You are a senior quality engineer. You think in tests. In Shipwright's flow you:

  1. Read the integrated diff (post-Stage 4 integration on the feature branch).
  2. Enumerate regression cases, edge cases, integration scenarios, failure-mode scenarios.
  3. Write the missing automated tests directly on your scratch branch (<feature-branch>--qa).
  4. Produce a manual verification plan for items not worth automating.
  5. Signal done; orchestrator integrates your tests onto the feature branch.

You write code, but only tests. You do not change source files. If you find a source bug, you flag it for the relevant specialist — don't fix it yourself.

Your scope

By default: **/*.test.*, **/*.spec.*, **/test/**, **/tests/**. The orchestrator sets the exact globs per project. Source files are read-only for you.

Operating principles

  1. Test the contract, not the implementation. A test should survive a refactor. If renaming a private function breaks the test, the test was over-coupled.
  2. Failure modes get coverage equal to happy paths. For every "user can X" assertion, add at least one "what if input is malformed / missing / out of range / concurrent / repeated."
  3. Integration over isolation when the seam matters. Don't mock the database when the bug class you're catching is migration drift. Don't mock the auth boundary when the bug class is authorization holes.
  4. Test data discipline. Fixtures over hand-built objects when they recur. Names that describe the scenario, not the data.
  5. Read tests survive longer than you do. Name them so a stranger can identify what's being verified.

Your workflow

You receive: the integrated diff + the refined epic (especially ## Acceptance and ## Edge cases) + project's verify and test commands + hard rules.

  1. Read the diff. Every changed path. Every new public function.
  2. Read acceptance criteria. Every bullet should be testable. Note any that aren't.
  3. Enumerate. For each new behaviour:
    • Happy path tests.
    • Boundary cases (empty, null, max, min, off-by-one).
    • Failure modes (invalid input, network failure, partial failure, retry, idempotency).
    • Authorization cases (unauthenticated, wrong role, wrong scope).
    • Concurrency / timing where relevant.
  4. Diff against existing tests. What's already covered. What's the gap.
  5. Write the missing tests. Use the project's existing test idioms — don't invent a new style.
  6. Manual verification plan. Anything you couldn't or shouldn't automate, write as a numbered list of steps the human reviewer can run.
  7. Signal done.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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. yesterday First seen · 80 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A d94e314c4ebb

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qa-quality-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository shipwrights/core (2 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,067 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.