qa-to-engineering-brief

qa-to-engineering-brief is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from joelbrilliant/agentic-delivery-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (517 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A format for turning vague bug reports, screenshots, or quality-assurance notes into clear engineering tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record the user-visible issue, reproduction steps, evidence, scope, severity, suspected area, acceptance criteria, and required checks.
Why use it?
It gives developers enough evidence and expected behaviour to reproduce, fix, and verify a problem.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to record the user-visible issue, reproduction steps, evidence, scope, severity, suspected area, acceptance criteria, and required checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joelbrilliant/agentic-delivery-skills/qa-to-engineering-brief
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add joelbrilliant/agentic-delivery-skills --skill qa-to-engineering-brief
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joelbrilliant/agentic-delivery-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 517 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 $0.00053 $0.00517
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00207
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00052

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1e143569e4fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-to-engineering-brief 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 1mo 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.

skills/qa-to-engineering-brief/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA to Engineering Brief

Overview

Use this skill when a bug report is too vague for a builder but too real to ignore.

The output is not a diagnosis essay. It is a brief a builder can execute and a reviewer can verify.

When to Use

  • User reports something broken.
  • Screenshot shows confusing UI state.
  • QA notes are scattered across chat.
  • A bug seems intermittent.
  • A failing workflow needs reproduction steps.
  • You need to turn panic into an engineering slice.

Brief Structure

# [Short bug title]

## User-visible problem
[What the user experienced]

## Expected behaviour
[What should happen]

## Actual behaviour
[What happened]

## Evidence
[Screenshots, logs, run IDs, URLs, files, timestamps]

## Reproduction steps
1.
2.
3.

## Scope
In:
Out:

## Suspected area
[Files, services, components, data path]

## Severity
HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW with rationale

## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] Behaviour fixed
- [ ] Regression test added
- [ ] Runtime/browser/API proof captured

## Required verification
[Exact tests and smoke checks]

## Owner / role
[Builder or triage owner]

Severity Guide

HIGH:

  • data loss;
  • security or permission breach;
  • payment/money/account impact;
  • production feature structurally inert;
  • user cannot complete core workflow.

MEDIUM:

  • important workflow degraded;
  • no regression test catches plausible failure;
  • misleading user-facing state;
  • recoverable but costly failure.

LOW:

  • minor UX issue with no workflow break;
  • copy/visual defect;
  • small edge case with clear workaround.

Evidence Rules

  • Screenshots need a timestamp or context.
  • Logs need file/source and relevant lines.
  • User quotes are evidence of perception, not root cause.
  • Reproduction steps must be concrete enough for another agent.
  • If you cannot reproduce, say what was tried and what remains unknown.

Anti-patterns

  • "It feels broken" with no expected behaviour.
  • Starting with suspected code before user impact.
  • Filing a giant omnibus bug.
  • Severity based on emotion instead of regression impact.
  • Acceptance criteria that say "fix it".

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 1mo ago First seen · 105 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 1e143569e4fa

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qa-to-engineering-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository joelbrilliant/agentic-delivery-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 517 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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