qa

qa is a command for coding agents from vinnie357/claude-skills. It costs 20 tokens per session (718 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that validates a running application against a Gherkin user story, a plain-text specification of user behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps parse stories, test web or backend behavior, coordinate QA workers, and create issue records for failures.
Why use it?
It turns scattered scenario checks into one run that reports passing scenarios and files observed problems.

Command

Part of the qa plugin — 1 skill, 2 commands, 7 agents 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 commands/vinnie357/claude-skills/qa
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinnie357/claude-skills

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 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 718 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 5.1 $0.00020 $0.00718
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00359
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00072

Measured yesterday against content hash f49be86ab420, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa 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.

plugins/tools/qa/commands/qa.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Validate the application against the Gherkin user story at the given path. Spawns the qa-lead agent, which parses the story, detects the application stack, decomposes scenarios into parallel workers (Playwright for UI, Tidewave for Phoenix backends, generic backend probes otherwise), aggregates the workers' delta reports, and routes filed issues through the bees-manager agent into the target repo's .bees/ database.

What it does:

  1. Parse the user storyqa-lead reads <path-to-user-story> and validates the Gherkin format. Rejects on bad format.
  2. Detect the stack — Probes the repo for Phoenix (mix.exs), web UI (package.json + playwright.config.*), or generic backends. Verifies the app is reachable at the URL declared in Background:.
  3. Spawn workers — One worker per Scenario:, dispatched by assertion shape (UI → qa-playwright, Phoenix runtime → qa-tidewave, generic → qa-backend, mixed → both, correlated by scenario name).
  4. Aggregate deltas — Each worker emits a BEES REQUESTS: block in its report. The lead deduplicates across workers and routes ONE batch to bees-manager per run.
  5. Report — Lists filed bees issue IDs, scenarios that passed, scenarios that failed, and the next-step guidance.
  6. (With --fix) — Per filed issue, spawns an adversarial TDD pair: qa-test-writer (sonnet, may only edit tests) writes ONE failing test; qa-implementer (sonnet, may only edit production code) writes the smallest fix to make it pass. The lead inspects git diff between phases to enforce the boundary — neither agent can touch the other's files. Runs mise run ci / mise run test after the fix, re-runs the originating validator. Three rounds max. Reports the diff and halts; the user decides whether to commit.

Arguments:

  • <path-to-user-story> — path to a Gherkin file under docs/user-stories/<slug>.md in the target repo. Required.
  • --fix — opt-in to the post-validation fix loop.

Examples:

/qa docs/user-stories/checkout.md
/qa docs/user-stories/checkout.md --fix

Skills the lead loads (no globs — explicit names):

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

Task instructions:

Use the qa-lead subagent. Pass it the absolute path of the user-story file (resolve `` against the current working directory), the repo root (current working directory unless the path is in a subrepo — in that case, walk up to find the nearest .git/), and the --fix flag if present. Reject before spawning if the file does not exist or sits outside docs/user-stories/.

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 · 42 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A f49be86ab420

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qa is a command published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (24 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 718 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 2026-09-04.