qa

qa is a skill for Claude Code from SethGammon/Citadel. It costs 56 tokens per session (2,002 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A browser-based check for web apps that opens a real browser and tests actions such as clicking buttons, filling forms, and moving through user flows. It uses Playwright, an optional tool for controlling browsers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after building a web feature or as a completion check for a user flow. It can test apps built with React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, or plain HTML.
Why use it?
It checks whether a feature works through the interface, not only whether the code runs. Without Playwright, it can offer a screenshot-based fallback.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node scripts/codex-app-artifacts.js record --workflow qa --kind screenshot --path ".planning/screenshots/qa-flow-1.png" --status pass.

Part of the citadel plugin — 48 skills, 7 agents, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it after building a web feature or as a completion check…

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SethGammon/Citadel
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sethgammon/citadel/qa

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install citadel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills, 7 agents, 2 MCP servers.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for qa

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sethgammon/citadel/qa.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sethgammon/citadel/qa)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sethgammon/citadel/qa"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sethgammon/citadel/qa.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,002 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.
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 $0.00056 $0.02002
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01001
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00200

Measured 7d ago against content hash af87e204d608, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa 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 7d 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.

1. Check if a dev server is already running (try curl localhost:3000, 5173, 8080)
skills/qa/SKILL.md · 249 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 249 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/qa — Browser QA Verification

Dependency: Playwright

/qa requires Playwright. It's an optional dependency.

If Playwright is installed: full browser QA works. If Playwright is NOT installed: the skill offers to install it, or falls back to /live-preview (screenshot-only verification).

Detection:

npx playwright --version 2>/dev/null

Installation (if user agrees):

npm install -D playwright
npx playwright install chromium

Only installs Chromium (smallest download, ~150MB). Not Firefox or WebKit unless the user asks for cross-browser testing.

/do setup integration: During setup, if the project is a web app (has React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, or HTML files), offer to install Playwright: "I see this is a web project. Want to enable browser QA testing? This installs Playwright (~150MB) for interaction testing. (y/n)"

If they say no, /qa falls back to /live-preview. No pressure.

When to Use

  • After building a feature (verify it actually works in a browser)
  • As a phase end condition: "QA verification passes for [flow]"
  • When /do routes "qa", "test the app", "does it work", "click through it"
  • When /create-app campaigns reach the verification phase
  • After /live-preview shows something renders but you need to verify interactions

Protocol

Step 1: DISCOVER

Before testing, understand what to test:

  1. Read the project's routes/pages (from file tree, router config, or package.json scripts)
  2. Read the PRD or campaign file (if exists) for expected user flows
  3. Identify testable flows:
    • Page loads and renders (baseline)
    • Navigation between pages
    • Form submissions
    • Button click handlers
    • Auth flows (login, logout, protected routes)
    • CRUD operations (create, read, update, delete)
    • Error states (invalid input, network errors)

If no PRD or campaign exists, ask: "What should I test? Give me 1-3 user flows."

Step 2: START THE APP

Before testing, the app needs to be running:

  1. Check if a dev server is already running (try curl localhost:3000, 5173, 8080)
  2. If not running, check package.json for start/dev scripts
  3. Start it: npm run dev or equivalent, in background
  4. Wait for the server to be ready (poll the health endpoint or main URL)
  5. If the app won't start, report the error and stop. Don't test a broken app.

Read the full file on GitHub · 249 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. 7d ago First seen · 249 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A af87e204d608

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qa is a skill published in the GitHub repository SethGammon/Citadel (916 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,002 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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