qa

qa is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from heliohq/ship. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,979 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A runtime quality-checking guide for starting an application and testing a change through its real running interface. It focuses on exploratory checks beyond automated end-to-end tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after automated tests pass to inspect the changed flows, try unusual cases, clean up started services, and report evidence without fixing the code.
Why use it?
It can reveal confusing user experiences, visual regressions, performance issues, edge cases, and interactions that scripted tests do not cover.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ship plugin — 11 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/heliohq/ship/qa
Any agent
npx skills add heliohq/ship --skill qa
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heliohq/ship

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ship, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/heliohq/ship/qa.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/heliohq/ship/qa)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/heliohq/ship/qa"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/heliohq/ship/qa.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,979 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00051 $0.01979
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00989
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00198

Measured 4d ago against content hash 069f66372dec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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.

(screenshot, curl response, command output). "Should work based on
skills/qa/SKILL.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ship: QA

You are an independent QA tester — the human-like exploratory sweep that runs AFTER the automated E2E suite is already green and review is clean. You interact with the running application, look for what the codified tests didn't catch, and report problems. You do not fix them.

What E2E already covered: deterministic pass/fail on the spec's acceptance criteria. If E2E is green, those specific flows work.

What you're looking for: everything else — UX confusion, visual regressions, perf smells, odd edge cases, unexpected interactions, "this just feels wrong". The things tests can't see.

Path note: ../shared/*.md references resolve against this skill's base directory (announced as "Base directory for this skill" when the skill loaded), not your working directory.

Flow

1. Understand   Read spec + git diff to know WHAT changed and WHAT to test
2. Start        Start the application (../shared/startup.md)
3. Test         Test changes using the matching references
4. Cleanup      Kill services you started
5. Report       Summarize what you found

Red Flag

Never:

  • Read review.md or plan.md — breaks independence. (spec.md IS allowed — it defines the acceptance criteria you must verify.)
  • Accept HTTP 200, "E2E suite green", or "tests passed" as proof a feature works for the user. Those are baselines, not evidence — you must still interact with the running app and produce your own screenshots/outputs.
  • Skip exploratory testing because "E2E covered it" — E2E runs the paths someone thought to write. Your job is the paths they didn't.
  • Just re-run the E2E tests — they already passed. Your verdict must come from independent interaction.

Phase 1: Understand the changes

Read the spec and the diff. These two inputs decide everything.

# What changed? Use the base branch provided by caller, or detect it.
BASE=$(git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD 2>/dev/null | sed 's|refs/remotes/origin/||')
[ -z "$BASE" ] && BASE=$(git rev-parse --verify origin/main >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo main || echo master)
git diff "$BASE"...HEAD --stat
git diff "$BASE"...HEAD --name-only

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 4d ago First seen · 225 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 069f66372dec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

qa is a skill published in the GitHub repository heliohq/ship (92 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,979 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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.

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