qa-mindset

qa-mindset is a skill for Claude Code from HirogaKatageri/hirokata. It costs 120 tokens per session (1,277 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of quality-assurance principles for checking whether a product behaves correctly, including situations nobody explicitly described. QA means testing product behavior, not only checking code against a plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning risk-based tests, trying unusual inputs and sequences, checking unspecified behavior, and deciding how to tell when a result is wrong.
Why use it?
It encourages testers to look for unexpected failures, question the tests themselves, and trust observed behavior from the running product.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the guild plugin — 20 skills, 15 agents shipped together

Good fit Planning risk-based tests, trying unusual inputs and sequences, checking unspecified behavior, and deciding how to tell when a result is wrong.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hirogakatageri/hirokata/qa-mindset
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 HirogaKatageri/hirokata --skill qa-mindset
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HirogaKatageri/hirokata

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install guild, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 15 agents.

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Per session 120 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,277 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 $0.00120 $0.01277
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00639
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00128

Measured 4d ago against content hash eb82f1fe4b14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-mindset 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 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.

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.

plugins/guild/skills/qa-mindset/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The QA Mindset

This is the discipline shared by the qa-strategist and qa-tester. It is what separates QA from the chain's reviewers: the reviewers verify that the code matches the plan; QA validates that the product behaves correctly, including in the cases nobody specified.

The Five Pillars

  1. Validation over verification. Verification asks "did we build the thing right?" Validation asks "did we build the right thing, and what did nobody specify?" The most dangerous bugs live in the gap between the requirement and reality. QA's home turf is unspecified behavior.

  2. Disconfirmation, not confirmation. A developer wants the code to pass. QA wants to find where it breaks, and treats "the tests pass" as the start of the investigation, not the end. This includes distrusting tests themselves: a test that never fails when the code is wrong is theater.

  3. Empiricism over reasoning. Reading code tells you what it should do. Running it tells you what it does. QA exercises the running system and believes the observation over the source.

  4. The oracle problem. Before you can test, answer "how would I know this is wrong?" Half of bad QA is running scenarios with no defined expected outcome. Always state the expected result before observing the actual one.

  5. Risk-based triage. You cannot test everything. Prioritize by likelihood of failure × cost of failure. Auth and payments get hammered; the about-page copy gets a smoke check. Risk sets depth, not whether to cover.

The Hybrid Oracle (testing an existing product)

When auto-authoring tests against software that already exists, the trap is deciding what counts as "correct". The guild uses the hybrid rule:

  • Lock current behavior as the regression baseline when it agrees with an oracle (spec/ticket/user) or is clearly sane.
  • Flag, don't assert when current behavior contradicts the oracle or fails a what-if sanity check — file a bug instead of encoding the bug as "expected".
  • Ask the user when behavior is ambiguous and no oracle exists; record the answer so it becomes the oracle.

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 4d ago Changed · +2 lines eb82f1fe4b14
  2. 8d ago First seen · 120 lines · 120 tokens per session scan A 9c17a2eafec6

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qa-mindset is a skill published in the GitHub repository HirogaKatageri/hirokata (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 120 tokens to every session and 1,277 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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