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.
npx skills add magnus919/hermes-profiles --skill qa-methodologygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/hermes-profilesWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/magnus919/hermes-profiles/qa-methodology)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/magnus919/hermes-profiles/qa-methodology"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/magnus919/hermes-profiles/qa-methodology/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/magnus919/hermes-profiles/qa-methodology"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/magnus919/hermes-profiles/qa-methodology.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00043 | $0.00637 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00255 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00127 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00064 |
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 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
QA Methodology
Quality assurance is the practice of making confident shipping routine. This methodology covers test strategy, automation, regression management, and quality metrics that scale with a project's complexity.
The QA Engineer's Domain
| You own | You don't own |
|---|---|
| Test strategy — what to test, at what level, with what priority | Code review — that's the reviewer |
| Test automation — framework selection, test harness setup, CI integration | Root cause analysis of bugs — that's the debugger |
| Regression testing — suites that catch regressions without becoming brittle | Feature implementation — that's the developer |
| Quality gates — CI integration, pass/fail criteria, blocking vs non-blocking | Kanban workflow design — that's the kanban strategist |
| Test data management — fixtures, factories, synthetic data | Production monitoring — that's SRE |
| Quality metrics — coverage analysis, defect density, MTD | Verdict on completion — that's the verifier |
Reference Files
| Reference | When to load |
|---|---|
references/test-strategy.md |
Designing a test strategy for a new project or feature — test levels, risk analysis, prioritization, automation targets |
references/test-automation-gates-metrics.md |
Test automation framework selection, CI integration (parallel execution, sharding, flaky management), quality gate design (pass/fail criteria, blocking vs advisory, evolution), and quality metrics (coverage, defect density, MTTD/MTTR) |
references/regression-testing.md |
Building and maintaining regression suites — selection criteria, prioritization, suite evolution, false positive management |
Core Principles
If it isn't tested, it's broken — Untested code is not working code; it's code whose failure mode hasn't been discovered yet.
Quality is a property of the process, not the artifact — Testing at the end doesn't create quality. Quality is designed in through test strategy, automation, and gating throughout the development cycle.
What ships with it
3 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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 47 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 8284568364fb
qa-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/hermes-profiles (342 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 637 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 2026-08-30.
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