qa-shift-left

qa-shift-left is a skill for Claude Code from Kokxi/qa-test-skills. It costs 134 tokens per session (2,289 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing approach that brings test review into requirements, design, and development instead of waiting until the software is finished. It checks whether requirements, interfaces, data, and architecture can be tested.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review requirements, define acceptance criteria, assess testability, plan mocks and test data, review technical designs, and support unit or interface testing.
Why use it?
Finding unclear requirements and design problems early usually requires less rework than finding them after release. It also makes expected behavior and acceptance checks more specific.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the qa-test-skills plugin — 49 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review requirements, define acceptance criteria, assess testability, plan mocks and test data, review technical designs, and support unit or interface testing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kokxi/qa-test-skills/qa-shift-left
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 Kokxi/qa-test-skills --skill qa-shift-left
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kokxi/qa-test-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install qa-test-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 49 skills.

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Per session 134 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,289 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00134 $0.02289
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.01144
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00458
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00229

Measured 3d ago against content hash 10f476a047cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-shift-left 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 3d 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-shift-left/SKILL.md · 255 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 255 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

测试左移实践

核心原则

测试左移——越早发现缺陷,修复成本越低。

左移阶段

阶段1:需求阶段

测试活动:
├─ 需求评审
│   ├─ 参与需求评审会议
│   ├─ 从测试角度提出问题
│   ├─ 识别需求不清晰/矛盾点
│   └─ 评估需求可测试性
│
├─ 验收标准
│   ├─ 协助定义验收标准(AC)
│   ├─ 确保AC可测试、可自动化
│   ├─ 明确输入/输出/边界
│   └─ 识别隐含需求
│
└─ 可测试性评估
    ├─ 评估接口是否可Mock
    ├─ 评估日志是否可追踪
    ├─ 评估配置是否可动态
    └─ 评估数据是否可构造

阶段2:设计阶段

测试活动:
├─ 架构评审
│   ├─ 评估系统架构可测试性
│   ├─ 识别测试难点
│   ├─ 建议可测试设计
│   └─ 评估依赖服务Mock方案
│
├─ 接口设计评审
│   ├─ 评估接口设计合理性
│   ├─ 确认接口文档完整性
│   ├─ 评估错误码设计
│   └─ 评估版本兼容性
│
└─ 数据库设计评审
    ├─ 评估表结构设计
    ├─ 评估索引设计
    ├─ 评估数据迁移方案
    └─ 评估数据一致性

阶段3:开发阶段

测试活动:
├─ 代码评审
│   ├─ 从测试角度Review代码
│   ├─ 识别潜在Bug模式
│   ├─ 评估异常处理
│   └─ 评估日志记录
│
├─ 单元测试支持
│   ├─ 协助开发设计测试用例
│   ├─ 提供测试数据建议
│   ├─ 验证单元测试覆盖
│   └─ 评审单元测试质量
│
└─ 接口测试
    ├─ 编写接口测试用例
    ├─ 验证接口契约
    ├─ 测试接口边界条件
    └─ 执行接口自动化测试

需求可测试性

验收标准模板

## 验收标准(AC)

### 功能描述
[功能的简要描述]

### 验收条件
- [ ] 条件1:[具体条件]
- [ ] 条件2:[具体条件]
- [ ] 条件3:[具体条件]

### 输入
- 正常输入:[示例]
- 异常输入:[示例]
- 边界输入:[示例]

### 输出
- 正常输出:[预期结果]
- 异常输出:[错误信息]
- 边界输出:[边界处理]

### 验证方法
- [ ] 手动测试
- [ ] 自动化测试
- [ ] 接口测试

可测试性检查清单

接口层:
├─ [ ] 接口是否可Mock?
├─ [ ] 接口是否有测试接口?
├─ [ ] 接口文档是否完整?
└─ [ ] 接口版本是否管理?

数据层:
├─ [ ] 数据是否可构造?
├─ [ ] 数据是否可清理?
├─ [ ] 数据是否可查询?
└─ [ ] 数据是否可隔离?

日志层:
├─ [ ] 关键路径是否有日志?
├─ [ ] 日志级别是否合理?
├─ [ ] 是否有TraceId?
└─ [ ] 日志是否可查询?

配置层:
├─ [ ] 功能开关是否支持?
├─ [ ] 配置是否可动态修改?
├─ [ ] 测试配置是否独立?
└─ [ ] 配置变更是否有记录?

代码评审检查点

测试视角的CR

检查点:
├─ 业务逻辑
│   ├─ 条件判断是否正确?
│   ├─ 边界条件是否处理?
│   ├─ 异常情况是否考虑?
│   └─ 数据校验是否完整?
│
├─ 异常处理
│   ├─ 异常是否捕获?
│   ├─ 异常信息是否明确?
│   ├─ 异常恢复是否实现?
│   └─ 异常日志是否记录?
│
├─ 日志记录
│   ├─ 关键操作是否有日志?
│   ├─ 日志级别是否合理?
│   ├─ 敏感信息是否脱敏?
│   └─ TraceId是否传递?
│
└─ 性能影响
    ├─ 是否有N+1查询?
    ├─ 是否有内存泄漏风险?
    ├─ 是否有并发问题?
    └─ 是否有性能瓶颈?

单元测试支持

单元测试检查清单

覆盖率:
├─ [ ] 核心逻辑覆盖?
├─ [ ] 分支覆盖?
├─ [ ] 边界覆盖?
└─ [ ] 异常覆盖?

质量:
├─ [ ] 测试命名清晰?
├─ [ ] 测试职责单一?
├─ [ ] 测试独立运行?
├─ [ ] 测试快速执行?
└─ [ ] 测试可维护?

输出示例

团队在需求评审阶段参与不足,导致上线后频繁需求变更 → 左移实践:

  • 需求阶段:参与需求评审,定义验收标准(AC),推动可测试性检查
  • 设计阶段:测试视角参与技术方案评审,识别设计缺陷
  • 开发阶段:推动单元测试覆盖率,执行测试视角代码评审

Read the full file on GitHub · 255 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. 3d ago Changed 10f476a047cb
  2. 9d ago First seen · 255 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A 887ae13a6a9d

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qa-shift-left is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kokxi/qa-test-skills (24 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 2,289 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.

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