qa

qa is a skill for Codex from arcee-ai/nac. It costs 100 tokens per session (5,575 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A quality-assurance workflow for testing a live nac development server with multiple isolated workers and evidence-backed reports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test a specific committed revision, run parallel QA workers, preserve their reports, and produce an aggregate summary without changing the source.
Why use it?
It finds problems through real use and keeps each tester's findings separate, rather than relying only on unit tests.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to test a specific committed revision, run parallel QA workers, preserve their reports, and produce an aggregate summary without changing the source.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arcee-ai/nac/qa
View source ↗ arcee-ai/nac
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.

Any agent
npx skills add arcee-ai/nac --skill qa
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arcee-ai/nac

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for qa

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for qa

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,575 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 56
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00100 $0.05575
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.02230
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.01115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00558

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e7d05b99696f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa 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 1mo 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.

compatibility: Requires a local unsandboxed Git checkout, Rust and web build tools, curl, and rootless Podman.
.agents/skills/qa/SKILL.md · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NAC quality assurance

Run adversarial, evidence-backed QA against one requested committed revision. Exercise the live branch-built server, not only unit tests. Preserve every worker's findings in independent ignored reports, then summarize the complete pass.

This workflow tests; it does not fix. Never edit source, dependency files, generated assets, repository configuration, issues, or pull requests during a QA pass.

Input and roles

n is the number of QA test workers. Accept one positive integer and default to 4. A caller-supplied value means exactly that many test workers, not a maximum or aspiration. Reject zero, negative, non-integer, or locally unsupportable values with concrete capacity evidence; never reduce n silently.

Caller requests about focus or duration are ordinary test context, not additional formal parameters.

The process's starting directory is only a place from which to resolve the requested revision. Its branch, staged files, unstaged files, and untracked files are never infrastructure failures by themselves. Setup must select an existing clean worktree at the target commit or create one, change its working directory to that root, and run the pass there. Workers and aggregate must likewise change to the setup-defined root before inspecting Git or running commands.

The top-level controller is not a QA test worker. In nac it sees this catalog description but cannot read or write files; it must use this exact choreography:

  1. Dispatch qa/setup with skills: ["qa"] and mode=setup, n, the caller's requested revision or PR, and the caller's complete scope/focus context.
  2. Read the retained setup episode. It must contain the absolute execution-worktree root, pass root, source SHA, binary, and n distinct assignment contracts.
  3. Dispatch exactly those n test workers together in one parallel wave. Copy every setup contract verbatim—especially repo_root, slot, scope, report, and evidence—then add skills: ["qa"], qa/setup as a source thread, the setup-proven podman_mode, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR only for local mode, and ephemeral connection fields only for remote mode. Never rename, repartition, or “improve” assignments after RUN.json exists.
  4. After all n finish, dispatch qa/aggregate with skills: ["qa"], mode=aggregate, the setup-defined repo_root, exact slots, qa/setup, every test worker that produced a retained episode, and explicit dispatch outcomes for workers without episodes. A failed or timed-out worker cannot be named as a source thread.
  5. Return the aggregate conclusion. Never substitute one all-purpose QA worker for this topology.

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 289 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A e7d05b99696f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

qa is a skill published in the GitHub repository arcee-ai/nac (283 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 5,575 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.