qa-investigation

qa-investigation is a skill for Claude Code from fugazi/test-automation-skills-agents. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,540 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A file-backed investigation log for finding the root cause of one failing test. It helps determine whether the failure is intermittent (flaky) or caused by a repeatable bug.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reproduce a failing test, compare intermittent and repeatable failures, and document why the test fails.
Why use it?
It keeps evidence, goals, and decisions in a durable record during a long investigation, so context is not lost between runs or sessions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the test-automation-skills-agents plugin — 10 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to reproduce a failing test, compare intermittent and repeatable failures, and document why the test fails.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fugazi/test-automation-skills-agents/qa-investigation
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 fugazi/test-automation-skills-agents --skill qa-investigation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fugazi/test-automation-skills-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install test-automation-skills-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 7 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,540 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00094 $0.01540
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00770
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00154

Measured 9d ago against content hash e923ef302869, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-investigation 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-investigation/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Investigation

A persistent, file-backed investigation journal for a specific failing test. This is the execution layer: it resolves a concrete failure. It does not validate strategy or architecture (grill-me-qa) nor generate QA deliverables (qa-manual-istqb).

The core idea: your context window is volatile RAM; the filesystem is persistent disk. Writing goals, evidence, and decisions to markdown prevents context drift during a long investigation.

When to Use This Skill

  • A test fails intermittently (flaky) or deterministically (bug), and you need the root cause.
  • The investigation spans many tool calls, multiple runs, or more than one session.
  • You want a durable record of what you found, decided, and why.

When NOT to Use This Skill

  • Authoring a test from scratch — use the relevant automation/framework skill.
  • Designing a framework or coverage strategy — strategy validation (grill-me-qa) or artifact generation (qa-manual-istqb).
  • Simple questions or quick lookups (fewer than ~5 tool calls).
  • General review of non-test production code.

The boundary is not "is it a selector / browser issue / timeout" — any of those can be worth investigating. The boundary is whether the request needs a persistent, multi-step root-cause investigation or is a one-shot tactical task. If uncovering the why takes evidence, runs, and iteration, use this skill.

Tool Agnosticism

This method is independent of any test framework — web, API, mobile, embedded, unit, load. Terms like "browser", "selector", "network requests", or "CI vs local" are illustrative, not requirements; substitute the equivalent in your stack.

Core Process

The phases are the same whether the failure is flaky or a deterministic bug. The skill discovers the classification during triage — it does not assume it up front.

Phase 1: Reproduction & Triage

  • Reproduce reliably; isolate variables (parallelism, repeat count, environment, data/state).
  • Determine: intermittent (flaky), deterministic (bug), or non-reproducible? This is a finding, not an input.
  • Record the classification and the evidence that supports it.
  • Goal: a confirmed reproduction or a documented non-reproducible failure.

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 99 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A e923ef302869

Subscribe to this mod's changes

qa-investigation is a skill published in the GitHub repository fugazi/test-automation-skills-agents (234 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,540 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 2026-09-03.

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