qa-baseline

qa-baseline is a skill for Claude Code from Jarroslav/agentic-os. It costs 174 tokens per session (2,105 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A setup procedure for creating a lasting quality-assurance guide for a code repository. Quality assurance means organizing how software is tested and checked for problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up QA for the first time, discovering existing test practices, or connecting the repository to outside QA systems; it does not write or run tests.
Why use it?
It gathers scattered test files, coverage reports, continuous-integration checks, and QA documentation into two reference guides for later work.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the agentic-sdlc plugin — 27 skills, 5 agents 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/jarroslav/agentic-os/qa-baseline
Any agent
npx skills add Jarroslav/agentic-os --skill qa-baseline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jarroslav/agentic-os

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-sdlc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 5 agents.

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-baseline

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jarroslav/agentic-os/qa-baseline.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jarroslav/agentic-os/qa-baseline)
Your own site
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Per session 174 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,105 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 5.1 $0.00174 $0.02105
Opus 5 $0.00087 $0.01052
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00421
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00211

Measured 5d ago against content hash ac7d7c70c53f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-baseline 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 5d 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/agentic-sdlc/skills/qa-baseline/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

qa-baseline

Build a durable QA knowledge base by inspecting the current repo and (optionally) external QA systems, then persisting what you learn as two guide files. Downstream, qa-scoping reads both files on every feature run — this skill is the one-time seed that makes that possible.

Blast radius: R2 (writes repo guide files). No file is written until the user approves at the Phase 4 gate. Phase 1 is strictly read-only.

Methodology owner. How qa knowledge is gathered, structured and kept current is defined by the qa-knowledge-base blueprint in agentic-qe (skills/qe-blueprints/references/catalog/analyze/qa-knowledge-base.md). This skill executes; the blueprint is the authority on method. If the two ever disagree, the blueprint wins and this file is what gets corrected — one source of truth, so two agents cannot follow two different sets of practices.

When to use

  • First-time QA setup in a repo, before any pipeline run.
  • Trigger phrases: qa init, qa foundation, set up qa.
  • Slash command: /sdlc:qa-init.

Do not use this to run or author tests — it discovers and configures only.

Outputs (path contract)

File Purpose
.agentic/guides/testing/qa-strategy.md How this repo tests: frameworks, types, coverage targets, conventions, anti-patterns, external sources.
.agentic/guides/testing/qa-health.md Current QA state: coverage summary, risky untested areas, test debt, recent activity.

Both artifacts overwrite on re-run. The skill is idempotent and safe to re-run.

Flow

Five phases, in order. Nothing is written to disk before Phase 5, and Phase 5 is gated on explicit user approval in Phase 4.

Phase 1 — Discovery (read-only)

Scan the current repo for QA signals. For each signal record: absolute path, type, and detected framework. Write nothing.

Signal catalog:

Type Paths / patterns
Test directories tests/, __tests__/, spec/, e2e/, cypress/, playwright/
Coverage reports coverage/, .nyc_output/, htmlcov/, coverage.xml, lcov.info
Test config jest.config.{js,ts,mjs,cjs}, pytest.ini, setup.cfg, playwright.config.{ts,js}, .nycrc, vitest.config.{ts,js}
CI test gates .github/workflows/*.yml, .gitlab-ci.yml, Jenkinsfile — extract steps matching: test, coverage, e2e, playwright, cypress, pytest, jest, vitest
Local QA docs files matching *test-plan*, *test_plan*, *strategy*, *test-cases*, *testcases*

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 5d ago First seen · 186 lines · 174 tokens per session scan A ac7d7c70c53f

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qa-baseline is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jarroslav/agentic-os (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 174 tokens to every session and 2,105 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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