qa-process-improvement

qa-process-improvement is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from javalenciacai/QASkills. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,941 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for improving software quality-assurance processes, the work used to check that software behaves correctly. It uses measurements, retrospectives, root-cause analysis, and process changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine test coverage, defect rates, test speed, escaped bugs, maintenance effort, feedback time, and team workflows, then plan improvements.
Why use it?
It helps teams find slow, repetitive, unclear, or unreliable testing practices and measure whether changes improve them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to examine test coverage, defect rates, test speed, escaped bugs, maintenance effort, feedback time, and team workflows, then plan improvements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/javalenciacai/qaskills/qa-process-improvement
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add javalenciacai/QASkills --skill qa-process-improvement
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/javalenciacai/QASkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,941 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.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00037 $0.01941
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00971
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00194

Measured 10d ago against content hash 81b0977705b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-process-improvement 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 10d ago.

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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.

.agents/skills/qa-process-improvement/SKILL.md · 389 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 389 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Process Improvement

Expert skill for analyzing QA effectiveness and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

When to Use

Use this skill when you need to:

  • Analyze QA process effectiveness
  • Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies
  • Implement process improvements
  • Adopt new tools and techniques
  • Reduce test maintenance burden
  • Improve team productivity
  • Enhance quality outcomes

Improvement Framework

1. Measure Current State

Collect baseline metrics:

  • Test coverage
  • Defect detection rate
  • Test execution time
  • Automation coverage
  • Defect escape rate
  • Time to feedback
  • Team velocity

2. Identify Problems

Common pain points:

  • Tests take too long to run
  • High maintenance burden
  • Too many escaped defects
  • Late defect discovery
  • Manual repetitive work
  • Unstable test environment
  • Unclear requirements

3. Analyze Root Causes

Use techniques:

  • 5 Whys
  • Fishbone diagram
  • Pareto analysis
  • Process mapping
  • Team retrospectives

4. Design Solutions

Improvement categories:

  • Process changes
  • Tool adoption
  • Automation expansion
  • Skill development
  • Communication improvements

5. Implement & Measure

Track impact:

  • Before/after metrics
  • ROI calculation
  • Team feedback
  • Stakeholder satisfaction

Key Metrics for Improvement

Quality Metrics

Defect Detection Efficiency (DDE)

DDE = (Defects in QA) / (Defects in QA + Production) × 100%
Goal: > 90%

Escaped Defect Rate

Rate = (Production defects) / (Total defects found)
Goal: < 5%

Defect Removal Efficiency

Efficiency = (Defects removed in phase) / (Total defects) × 100%

Efficiency Metrics

Test Automation Coverage

Coverage = (Automated tests) / (Total tests) × 100%
Goal: 70-80% for regression suite

Test Execution Time

Time = Total duration for test suite run
Track: Trend over time
Goal: Decreasing or stable

Read the full file on GitHub · 389 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. 10d ago First seen · 389 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 81b0977705b7

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qa-process-improvement is a skill published in the GitHub repository javalenciacai/QASkills (5 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,941 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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