qa-preflight

qa-preflight is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dayvisonassis/sdd-skills. It costs 101 tokens per session (3,654 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A final quality check for a completed software feature. It compares the feature with its specification and the running screen, performs checks that can be automated, and records defects that still need a person.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after implementation to investigate the delivered feature, run available checks, send objective defects to existing fixers, and produce a QA report.
Why use it?
It reduces the amount of testing left for human QA and leaves safeguards so confirmed defects are less likely to return unnoticed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is used to give (`../../docs/`) resolved to nothing outside the source repository. Everything.

Good fit Use it after implementation to investigate the delivered feature, run available checks, send objective defects to existing fixers, and produce a QA report.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dayvisonassis/sdd-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dayvisonassis/sdd-skills/qa-preflight

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,654 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 $0.00101 $0.03654
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01827
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00731
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00365

Measured 9d ago against content hash ae9509ec97d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-preflight 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 9d 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.

skills/qa-preflight/SKILL.md · 304 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 304 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Preflight

A gate, not a plan generator. A plan generator moves work onto the human; this removes work from the human and uses what remains as the definition of what actually needs a person.

References, loaded on demand: references/qa-practices.md (how cases are derived) and references/report-template.md (the exact output skeletons). Both travel with this skill, so both resolve wherever it is installed.

The rationale — why each rule exists and what this skill deliberately does NOT do — is in docs/Skill_QA_Preflight.md of the sdd-skills repository, which is where the skill is maintained. That file is not part of an installed copy, and the relative path this note used to give (../../docs/) resolved to nothing outside the source repository. Everything needed to RUN the skill is in the folder you are reading; go to the rationale only to change a rule, and change it there.

Standalone by decision. No other skill invokes this one. It runs when the feature is done, on explicit human request. Running it mid-implementation produces noise about code that is still moving.

It owns no correction logic. Defects are fixed by dispatching the correctors that already exist, with the discipline they already have.

One carve-out, and only one: the permanent guard. No test-writer covers a browser-level assertion suite, so when the visual gate is enabled the skill writes that assertion itself. This is guard code, not product behaviour — it changes what is checked, never what the application does. Production code stays off-limits under every circumstance, and the guard still goes through the checkpoint like any other change.

INPUT

  • Target feature (ID, e.g. F08).
  • Auto-discovers: the feature's spec.md / plan.md / contract.md, its PRD section, progress.json, the routes and permission blocks it added, and its diff against the integration branch.
  • Reads the project's design-system skill when one exists (for the numeric values the accessibility axis asserts). Without it, the accessibility axis falls back to the generic WCAG floors in references/qa-practices.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 304 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 304 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A ae9509ec97d2

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qa-preflight is a skill published in the GitHub repository dayvisonassis/sdd-skills (1 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 3,654 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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