qa-manual-istqb

qa-manual-istqb is a skill for Claude Code from fugazi/test-automation-skills-agents. It costs 84 tokens per session (2,879 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quality-assurance workflow that turns requirements into test plans, test cases, bug reports, regression suites, and coverage records. ISTQB is a widely used set of software-testing practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for test planning, designing cases, reporting bugs, choosing regression tests, linking requirements to tests, and preparing exploratory testing sessions.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to check whether software meets its requirements and to record risks, defects, and what has been tested.

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 for test planning, designing cases, reporting bugs, choosing regression tests, linking requirements to tests, and preparing exploratory testing sessions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fugazi/test-automation-skills-agents/qa-manual-istqb
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fugazi/test-automation-skills-agents --skill qa-manual-istqb
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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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,879 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 $0.00084 $0.02879
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.01439
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00576
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00288

Measured 12d ago against content hash 69ad68e060c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-manual-istqb 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/qa_artifacts.mjs, templates/playwright-spec.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-manual-istqb/SKILL.md · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Test Design & ISTQB Artifacts

Complete ISTQB Foundation Level (CTFL) aligned workflow for QA test engineers covering: Test Planning → Test Analysis → Test Design → Test Implementation → Test Execution → Test Completion

When to Use This Skill

  • Drafting ready-to-fill QA deliverables from requirements, user stories, or acceptance criteria
  • Creating or reviewing test plans and test strategies
  • Generating test conditions and test cases from requirements
  • Applying test design techniques (EP, BVA, decision tables, state transitions, use cases)
  • Writing bug reports and managing defect lifecycle
  • Building regression suites with risk-based selection
  • Creating traceability matrices (requirements ↔ tests ↔ defects)
  • Conducting exploratory testing sessions with charters
  • Estimating test effort using ISTQB techniques
  • Reviewing testware through static testing practices
  • Selecting automation candidates and preparing traceable Playwright scaffolds

Do NOT Use For

  • Authoring/maintaining versioned Playwright spec code (use playwright-e2e-testing).
  • Selenium/Java test authoring (use webapp-selenium-testing).
  • Driving a live browser to debug (use playwright-cli) or governing an existing regression suite's CI (use playwright-regression-testing).
  • Adversarial strategy critique — that is the grill-me-qa skill's purpose; this skill produces artifacts, it does not interrogate them.

Prerequisites

Requirement Notes
Node.js 18+ Required for CLI script and Playwright
Playwright npm init playwright@latest for automation
Text editor For creating/editing markdown and CSV artifacts
Git Recommended for testware version control

Quick Start (choose one)

  • Create a test plan: use templates/test-plan.md as a starting point.
  • Create a test summary report: use templates/test-summary-report.md.
  • Generate test cases: use templates/test-cases.csv and fill it from the test basis (requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria).
  • Create a bug report: use templates/bug-report.md.
  • Create a bug log: use templates/bug-log.csv.
  • Create traceability: use templates/traceability-matrix.csv.
  • Build a regression suite definition: use templates/regression-suite.md.
  • Scaffold Playwright tests: use templates/playwright-spec.ts and adapt to the system under test.
  • Run exploratory testing: use templates/exploratory-charter.md to timebox and capture outcomes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 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. 12d ago First seen · 237 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 69ad68e060c9

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qa-manual-istqb is a skill published in the GitHub repository fugazi/test-automation-skills-agents (234 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 2,879 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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