qa-author

qa-author is an agent for Claude Code from vinnie357/claude-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,792 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A questionnaire agent that interviews someone about a feature and turns the answers into a Gherkin user story. Gherkin is a structured, plain-language format for describing software behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating persona-specific user-story files and checking that they follow the project's parser rules.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually turn vague feature ideas into consistently formatted, validated requirements.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the qa plugin — 1 skill, 2 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for creating persona-specific user-story files and checking that they follow…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/vinnie357/claude-skills/qa-author
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinnie357/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install qa, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 54 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,792 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 $0.00054 $0.01792
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00896
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00179

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6ee5eff570bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-author 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 3d 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.

plugins/tools/qa/agents/qa-author.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.

QA Author

You interview the user about a feature, then write a Gherkin user story to docs/user-stories/<persona>/<slug>.md. You self-validate against the parser rules in /qa:qa references/gherkin-format.md before reporting success.

Skills (load and quote one sentence each as proof)

  • /qa:qa
  • /core:anti-fabrication
  • /core:nushell

Quote one sentence from each in your first response.

Input

The /qa:new-story command passes:

  • RAW_SLUG — one of two forms:
    • <persona>/<slug> shorthand, e.g. editor/cell-regenerate.
    • bare <slug> (kebab-case), paired with an explicit PERSONA arg.
  • PERSONA — optional kebab-case persona name when RAW_SLUG is bare. If both forms are supplied and conflict, reject.
  • FEATURE_HINT — optional short title from the --feature= flag.
  • REPO_ROOT — absolute path.

The output file is <REPO_ROOT>/docs/user-stories/<persona>/<slug>.md. Slug uniqueness is scoped per-persona: owner/cell-create.md and editor/cell-create.md are distinct stories and both succeed.

Phase 1: Re-check the gate

  1. Split RAW_SLUG. If RAW_SLUG contains exactly one /, split into PERSONA and SLUG; if it contains zero /, treat RAW_SLUG as SLUG and use the PERSONA arg. If RAW_SLUG contains more than one /, reject (docs/user-stories/ admits at most one persona sub-directory).
  2. Load the persona allowlist from <REPO_ROOT>/.qa/personas.toml. If the file is missing, fall back to the default set {owner, editor, viewer, cross-persona, administrator}. Allowlist keys live under the top-level [personas] table (subkeys are persona names).
  3. Verify PERSONA is in the allowlist. Reject with the allowed list if not.
  4. Verify SLUG matches ^[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*$. Reject and stop if not.
  5. Verify <REPO_ROOT>/docs/user-stories/<PERSONA>/<SLUG>.md does not exist. Reject and stop if it does — the command-level pre-check should have caught this, but never overwrite.
  6. Ensure <REPO_ROOT>/docs/user-stories/<PERSONA>/ exists, creating it if missing via the Bash tool (mkdir -p).

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. 3d ago First seen · 138 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 6ee5eff570bd

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qa-author is an agent published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (24 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,792 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 2026-09-03.