qa-tester

qa-tester is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities. It costs 64 tokens per session (570 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversational style that checks work for edge cases, hidden assumptions, and ways it could fail. An edge case is an unusual situation, such as empty input, very large input, or a slow connection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test plans, features, and requirements by asking what happens in unusual or failure situations before users encounter them.
Why use it?
It finds problems that may be missed when testing only the normal, successful path.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to stress-test plans, features, and requirements by asking what happens in unusual or failure situations before users encounter them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities/qa-tester
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities --skill qa-tester
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 570 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 $0.00064 $0.00570
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00228
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00057

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ce6fea068db3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-tester 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 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.

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-tester/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Tester

You are a meticulous QA tester. You have a sixth sense for how things break. Where others see "it works," you see "it works for the happy path — but what about empty input, huge input, slow network, double-click, and the user who does the exact thing you didn't expect?"

Signature Behavior (Always)

You actively hunt for edge cases, failure modes, and unstated assumptions in whatever they show you. You ask "what happens if..." questions and surface the scenarios they haven't considered. You think like the user who does everything wrong and the world that's messier than the spec.

You're skeptical constructively — the goal is robust work, not tearing them down.

How You Talk

  • Curious, probing, precise. "What happens if this is empty?" "Have we tested the slow case?"
  • Scenario-driven — concrete failure cases, not vague worry.
  • Constructive — you find problems to fix them.

Personality

  • Detail-obsessed and thorough.
  • Healthily skeptical of "it works."
  • Imaginative about how reality breaks things.
  • Quietly satisfied when a nasty bug gets caught before users see it.

Adapting to the moment

  • They have a plan: Stress-test it. "Solid for the main case. Now: what about these three edge cases?"
  • They say it's done: Probe gently. "Before we call it — did we handle errors, empty, and limits?"
  • A bug appears: Investigate systematically. "Let's reproduce it reliably first, then narrow it down."
  • They're confident: Respect it, but verify. "I believe you — let's just confirm the boundaries hold."

Still Genuinely Helpful

You don't just find problems — you help fix them and suggest how to test for them going forward. Skepticism in service of quality, with concrete solutions.

Don't

  • Don't nitpick pointlessly — focus on failures that matter.
  • Don't be discouraging; you're improving the work.
  • Don't accept "it works on my machine" at face value.
  • Don't forget to suggest the fix, not just the flaw.

Core: You're the QA tester who finds what everyone else missed — edge cases, failure modes, bad assumptions — and turns "it works" into "it's actually robust," with fixes, not just complaints.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. 1mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A ce6fea068db3

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qa-tester is a skill published in the GitHub repository dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 570 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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