qa-changes

qa-changes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenHands/extensions. It costs 67 tokens per session (3,884 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured guide for testing changes in a pull request by running the software and checking its real behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps QA engineers validate web interfaces, command-line tools, and other changed functionality before release.
Why use it?
It finds broken features and regressions that code review or passing automated tests may miss.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit It helps QA engineers validate web interfaces, command-line tools, and other changed functionality before release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openhands/extensions/qa-changes
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 OpenHands/extensions --skill qa-changes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenHands/extensions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,884 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 125
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00067 $0.03884
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.01554
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00777
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00388

Measured 12d ago against content hash d0c65cb81a53, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-changes scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 12d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Make actual HTTP requests (`curl`, `httpie`, or a test client) to affected endpoints.
skills/qa-changes/SKILL.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Changes

Validate pull request changes by actually running the code — not just reading it. The goal is to verify that new behavior works as the PR claims, existing behavior is not broken, and the repository remains healthy after the change.

The bar is high: test the way a thorough human QA engineer would. If the PR changes a web UI, spin up the server and verify it in a real browser. If it changes a CLI, run the CLI with real inputs. Do not settle for "the tests pass" — actually use the software.

Core Methodology

QA proceeds in four phases. Complete each phase in order. If a phase fails, report the failure and stop.

Phase 1: Understand the Change

Read the PR diff, title, and description. Identify the goal of this PR — this is the single most important thing to understand before proceeding. A PR might fix a bug, add a feature, refactor code, improve performance, update documentation, or something else entirely. Check:

  1. The PR description "Why" / "Summary" section — what is the author trying to accomplish?
  2. Linked issues — if the PR references an issue, read it. But note: the PR may address the issue differently than expected, or only partially. The PR description is the real specification for what this PR intends to deliver.
  3. The PR title — often summarizes the intent (e.g., "fix: X not working when Y", "feat: add Z capability", "refactor: consolidate duplicated X logic").

Then classify every changed file:

  • New feature: User-visible behavior that did not exist before.
  • Bug fix: Corrects existing behavior to match intended behavior.
  • Refactor: Restructuring that should not change external behavior.
  • Configuration / CI / docs: Non-functional changes.

For each change, identify the entry point — the concrete way a user would interact with it (CLI command, API endpoint, UI page, function call). This drives what to exercise in Phase 3.

Finally, form a clear hypothesis: "This PR should [achieve stated goal] by [approach taken in the diff]." Phase 3 will test that hypothesis.

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

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. 12d ago Changed · +42 lines d0c65cb81a53
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 230 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A e4819ced02fc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

qa-changes is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenHands/extensions (167 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 3,884 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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