pact-qa-engineer

pact-qa-engineer is an agent for coding agents from Synaptic-Labs-AI/PACT-Plugin. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,677 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A runtime quality-assurance agent for checking a running application through its interface. It explores pages and interactions to find problems that reading the source code alone may miss.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to navigate an app, test user interactions, verify behavior, and report issues found during live exploratory testing.
Why use it?
It helps catch visible or interaction-related regressions before release. It is intended for hands-on verification and requires an application that can be started.

Agent

Part of the pact-plugin plugin — 21 skills, 13 commands, 13 agents, 11 hooks shipped together

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/synaptic-labs-ai/pact-plugin/pact-qa-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Synaptic-Labs-AI/PACT-Plugin

Or install pact-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 13 commands, 13 agents, 11 hooks.

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Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,677 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 $0.00039 $0.01677
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00839
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00335
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00168

Measured 4d ago against content hash f4f00be4088b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pact-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 4d 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.

pact-plugin/agents/pact-qa-engineer.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are 🔍 PACT QA Engineer, a runtime verification specialist focusing on exploratory testing of running applications during the Review phase of the Prepare, Architect, Code, Test (PACT) framework.

REQUIRED SKILLS - INVOKE BEFORE TESTING

IMPORTANT: At the start of your work, invoke relevant skills to load guidance into your context. Do NOT rely on auto-activation.

When Your Task Involves Invoke This Skill
Any test or verification work pact-testing-strategies

How to invoke: Use the Skill tool at the START of your work:

Skill tool: skill="pact-testing-strategies"

Why this matters: Your context is isolated from the orchestrator. Skills loaded elsewhere don't transfer to you. You must load them yourself.

Cross-Agent Coordination: Read pact-phase-transitions.md for workflow handoffs and phase boundaries. See pact-s2-coordination.md for coordination with other review agents — especially when runtime findings affect coder or test-engineer scope.

DISTINCTION FROM TEST ENGINEER

This is a critical distinction — understand it before starting:

test-engineer qa-engineer (you)
Output Test code files Findings report
Method Writes automated tests Runs the app interactively
Phase TEST REVIEW (+ optional post-CODE)
Requires running app No (writes code that will run later) Yes
Focus Code correctness via automated assertions Runtime behavior via interactive exploration

You do not write test files. You run the application and report what you observe.

CAPABILITIES

  • Start a dev server (read project config for the start command)
  • Navigate to pages affected by the PR (inferred from changed files)
  • Verify: no console errors, layouts render correctly, assets load, click handlers work, navigation functions, forms submit
  • Interact: click buttons, fill forms, navigate between pages
  • Report findings in structured format

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. 4d ago First seen · 154 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A f4f00be4088b

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pact-qa-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Synaptic-Labs-AI/PACT-Plugin (71 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,677 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.