qa-acceptance

qa-acceptance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paperclipai/paperclip. It costs 38 tokens per session (833 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for writing QA acceptance criteria and a manual validation plan. QA, or quality assurance, is the checking stage where someone verifies that a feature works as expected, including normal use, edge cases, errors, and limits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare feature testing, review a pull request with user-facing changes, check a release candidate, or verify a fix after an incident.
Why use it?
It gives reviewers specific pass-or-fail checks instead of relying on vague descriptions or only automated tests. This makes user-visible behaviour easier to verify before release.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to prepare feature testing, review a pull request with user-facing changes, check a release candidate, or verify a fix after an incident.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paperclipai/paperclip/qa-acceptance
About the project

Paperclip is a Node.js server and React application for coordinating AI agents as a business team, with goals, organizational roles, budgets, governance, and work tracking in one interface. It is used by people managing multiple agents or autonomous agent organizations across tools such as OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. The catalogue includes skills, agents, an MCP add-on, and an instruction for working with Paperclip.

paperclipai/paperclip · 80,206 stars · on GitHub · paperclip.ing

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 paperclipai/paperclip --skill qa-acceptance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 833 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • 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 18
    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 $0.00038 $0.00833
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00417
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00083

Measured 9d ago against content hash c631b437ab26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-acceptance 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 9d 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.

packages/skills-catalog/catalog/bundled/quality/qa-acceptance/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Acceptance

Write acceptance criteria that a reviewer can run against the running app and decide pass or fail without asking the author. The criteria are the contract — automated tests cover correctness, QA covers feature-level behavior.

When to use

  • A feature change is heading to QA and needs a written validation plan.
  • A reviewer is asked to verify a PR that touches user-visible behavior.
  • An incident postmortem requires a regression check before reopen-prevention.
  • A release candidate needs a pre-cut smoke pass.

When not to use

  • The change is unit-test-only (utility refactor, internal naming). Acceptance criteria are unnecessary churn.
  • You are asked to write tests against API contracts. Use contract testing, not feature QA.

Acceptance criteria format

Each criterion is a single, independently-verifiable statement:

- **Given** <starting state>, **when** <action>, **then** <observable outcome>.

Example:

- **Given** a CSV export with 0 rows, **when** the user clicks Export, **then** the file downloads with only the header row and the UI shows "Exported 0 rows".

Avoid criteria that combine multiple whens or thens. Split them.

What every plan must cover

  1. Golden path. The most common successful flow, end to end.
  2. Empty and minimum states. Zero items, one item, missing optional inputs.
  3. Boundary inputs. Max length strings, max numeric values, unicode, RTL text where applicable.
  4. Error states. Network failure, permission denied, validation failures, conflict (409), not found (404).
  5. Concurrency and ordering. Two users acting at once, race against background jobs, refresh during mutation.
  6. Performance envelope. The largest realistic input the change must handle without UI hangs or timeouts.
  7. Backward compatibility. Existing data, existing URLs, persisted user preferences continue to work.
  8. Telemetry and audit. Events, logs, or activity entries the change is supposed to emit.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 9d ago First seen · 94 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A c631b437ab26

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qa-acceptance is a skill published in the GitHub repository paperclipai/paperclip (80,206 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 833 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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