qa-project-bootstrap

qa-project-bootstrap is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from petrkindlmann/qa-skills. It costs 124 tokens per session (4,515 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for bringing a QA engineer or developer up to speed on an existing codebase and its testing setup. QA means quality assurance: the work of checking that software behaves correctly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a 30-day onboarding plan, audit test architecture, document how the framework works, pair with a mentor, and choose a first test.
Why use it?
It turns unfamiliar systems, test frameworks, and inherited test suites into a structured learning and review process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

not rated 114repo +7 3mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: warn 124 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to create a 30-day onboarding plan, audit test architecture, document how the framework works, pair with a mentor, and choose a first test.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/petrkindlmann/qa-skills/qa-project-bootstrap
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 petrkindlmann/qa-skills --skill qa-project-bootstrap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/petrkindlmann/qa-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,515 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
  • Socket pass 23 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 23 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, 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 MCP Rug Pull · line 110
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 308
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00124 $0.04515
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.02257
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00903
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00451

Measured 9d ago against content hash b4ee1e0bf460, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-project-bootstrap 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.

skills/qa-project-bootstrap/SKILL.md · 332 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 332 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Before starting: Check for .agents/qa-project-context.md in the project root. If it exists, it answers most discovery questions and provides the technical context for onboarding. If it does not, creating it is the first action item.

Quick Route

This skill serves three distinct jobs. Identify yours, jump to the section, skip the rest.

Situation Jump to Output
Onboarding a new person to an existing team First 30 Days Checklist → Mentorship Patterns A 30-day ramp plan with owners and dates
Inherited an existing suite with no onboarding/docs Test Architecture Audit (scope by team_maturity) A 1-2 page findings doc, five dimensions
Need the reference doc for anyone writing tests Framework Walkthrough Template A project-specific walkthrough.md

A real onboarding usually needs all three; a quick health check needs only the audit.


Discovery Questions

Who Is Being Onboarded?

  1. New QA engineer or developer contributing to tests? QA engineers need test strategy context and codebase orientation. Developers contributing tests need framework patterns and conventions. The ramp-up path differs significantly.

  2. Experience level with the test framework? First time with Playwright/Cypress/pytest? Experienced but new to this codebase? Advanced and just needs conventions? This determines how much framework walkthrough to include.

  3. Solo QA or joining an existing QA team? Solo QA needs to establish conventions from scratch. Joining a team means learning existing patterns and contributing within established norms.

Read the full file on GitHub · 332 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. 9d ago First seen · 332 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A b4ee1e0bf460

Subscribe to this mod's changes

qa-project-bootstrap is a skill published in the GitHub repository petrkindlmann/qa-skills (114 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 4,515 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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