qa-methodology

qa-methodology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from magnus919/agent-skills. It costs 184 tokens per session (2,581 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A methodology for planning software quality work, including test strategy, regression testing, automation, exploratory testing, and quality gates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design QA strategies, select and maintain automated tests, prioritize regression coverage, and define measurable release gates.
Why use it?
It helps teams decide what to test and how deeply, prioritize risks, investigate failing tests, and manage flaky or changing test suites.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to design QA strategies, select and maintain automated tests, prioritize regression coverage, and define measurable release gates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magnus919/agent-skills/qa-methodology
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 magnus919/agent-skills --skill qa-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin qa-methodology/plugin install qa-methodology after adding the marketplace above.

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README.md
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Per session 184 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,581 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 $0.00184 $0.02581
Opus 5 $0.00092 $0.01290
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00516
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00258

Measured 6d ago against content hash c496a499bdf6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-methodology 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/check-ac-testability.py, scripts/risk-prioritize.py, tests/test_check_ac_testability.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

qa-methodology/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Methodology

Senior-to-principal QA and SDET methodology: test strategy, automation, regression, risk-based prioritization, exploratory testing, quality gates, AI code quality gates for agentic Spec-Driven Development, agentic eval design, career leveling, and SDET engineering.

Ownership

You own You don't own
Test strategy — what to test, at what level, with what priority Root-cause debugging — route to systematic-debugging
Test automation — framework selection, parallelism, flaky management Security implementation and threat modeling — route to secure-software-engineering
E2E automation strategy and coverage decisions Operating a browser test tool (Playwright) — authoring/running specs, selectors, network mocking, scraping — route to playwright
Regression suites — selection, impact analysis, suite evolution Spec pipeline mechanics and gate verdicts — route to spec-driven-development
Quality gates — blocking vs advisory, metrics, DORA Eval framework governance and statistics — route to agent-evals-and-observability
Risk-based testing — P×I scoring, prioritization, registers Verification verdicts against explicit criteria — route to verification-methodology
Exploratory testing — SBTM charters, heuristics, tours Feature implementation — that's the developer
AI code quality gates — independent verification, AC testability Production monitoring and incident response — that's SRE
Mutation-guided test hardening — bounded mutation review evidence and survivor triage Verification verdicts against explicit criteria — route to verification-methodology
Agentic eval design — dataset design, judge bias, flaky-eval discipline
QA career levels — Senior/Staff/Principal scope progression
SDET engineering — test infrastructure, gTAA, CI/CD integration

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. 6d ago First seen · 136 lines · 184 tokens per session scan A c496a499bdf6

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qa-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/agent-skills (76 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 184 tokens to every session and 2,581 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 2026-09-03.

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