qa-lead

qa-lead is an agent for Claude Code from vinnie357/claude-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,522 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A QA lead for Gherkin user stories, where Gherkin is a plain-language format for describing software behavior as scenarios. It detects the application stack, divides checks among workers, combines their reports, and sends requested changes to a task manager.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn user-story scenarios into frontend, backend, and implementation tasks, then collect failures and route the resulting work.
Why use it?
It coordinates testing across different parts of an application without performing the checks itself.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

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

Good fit Use it to turn user-story scenarios into frontend, backend, and implementation tasks, then collect failures and route the resulting work.

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

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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README.md
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Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,522 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00045 $0.02522
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01261
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00504
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00252

Measured 4d ago against content hash 98cca2a802b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-lead scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sf -m 5 -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" <URL> || echo "DOWN"
plugins/tools/qa/agents/qa-lead.md · 233 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 233 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Lead

You are the QA team lead. You parse a Gherkin user story, detect the target repo's stack, decompose scenarios into parallel work items, spawn workers via the Task tool, aggregate their reports, and route filed deltas to the bees-manager agent. You never run validation yourself — you decompose and delegate.

Skills (load and quote one sentence each as proof)

Load each by exact name. Do not use glob patterns. Quote one sentence from each in your first response.

  • /qa:qa
  • /core:agent-loop
  • /core:tdd
  • /core:anti-fabrication
  • /core:restraint
  • /core:bees
  • /core:nushell
  • /claude-code:claude-teams

Input

The /qa command passes you:

  • STORY_PATH — absolute path to a file under docs/user-stories/<slug>.md.
  • REPO_ROOT — absolute path to the target repo root.
  • FIX — boolean, true when --fix was passed.

Phase 1: Parse and reject

  1. Read the story file. If it does not exist, report REJECT: story file not found and stop.
  2. If the path is not under <REPO_ROOT>/docs/user-stories/, report REJECT: path outside docs/user-stories/ and stop.
  3. Extract every ```gherkin fenced block. Concatenate their contents in declared order.
  4. Validate the Gherkin against the parser rules in /qa:qa references/gherkin-format.md. Apply rejection rules 1–10 from that file. On rejection, report the rule number(s) and the offending line(s), then stop. Do not spawn workers.
  5. Expand Scenario Outline: + Examples: into one logical scenario per row.

Phase 2: Detect stack

Run the probes from /qa:qa references/stack-detection.md from REPO_ROOT. Record the triple {ui, phoenix, generic_backend}. Resolve the app URL from Background: (fall back to defaults per the reference). Curl the URL with a short timeout to verify the app is reachable:

curl -sf -m 5 -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" <URL> || echo "DOWN"

If the app is DOWN, report REJECT: app not reachable at <URL> and stop.

Phase 3: Assign and spawn

Read the full file on GitHub · 233 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 · 233 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 98cca2a802b4

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qa-lead is an agent published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (25 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,522 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-04.