agent-qa-authoring

agent-qa-authoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,078 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating, editing, checking, and running Agent QA tests, suites, and hooks. Agent QA is a system for defining and running automated checks of AI agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to author or update QA tests and suites, validate YAML and IDs, inspect workspace settings, and run new definitions.
Why use it?
It helps keep test definitions consistent with the expected fields and identifiers. It also adds checks before saving or running definitions that may affect external systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to author or update QA tests and suites, validate YAML and IDs, inspect workspace settings, and run new definitions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/agent-qa-authoring
About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · 46,230 stars · on GitHub · sickn33.github.io

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill agent-qa-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,078 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00034 $0.01078
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00539
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00108

Measured 10d ago against content hash 018c5d1168cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-qa-authoring 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 10d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/agent-qa-authoring/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent QA Authoring

Overview

Author Agent QA tests, suites, and hooks without inventing schema fields or identifiers. Prefer Agent QA's MCP tools, use the bundled contract reference for exact fields, and validate every definition before saving or running it.

When to Use

  • Creating or editing an Agent QA test, suite, or hook.
  • Validating Agent QA YAML or canonical IDs.
  • Running a newly authored Agent QA definition through MCP or CLI.
  • Investigating which Agent QA configuration fields or workspace patterns apply.

Preconditions and Approval Boundary

  • Work only in a configured Agent QA workspace that the user has authorized.
  • Inspect the requested scope before any create, update, delete, or test-run operation.
  • Obtain explicit confirmation before deleting a definition or running a test that can change external application state.
  • Keep credentials out of definitions and output; use the workspace's configured secret handling.

Workflow

  1. Discover the local surface with agent_qa_discover.
  2. Inspect active config with agent_qa_get_config, especially targets, devices, providers, and services.mcp.
  3. Load references/agent-qa-contracts.json when exact schema fields or ID contracts are needed.
  4. Generate every new ID with Agent QA tooling:
    • MCP: agent_qa_generate_id
    • CLI fallback: agent-qa ids generate <test|suite|hook|run|observation>
    • If neither surface is already installed, stop and ask the user to approve an exact Agent QA installation. Do not fetch and execute the package at runtime through npx or another moving package reference.
  5. Never hand-write IDs. Validate existing IDs with agent_qa_validate_id or agent-qa ids validate <type> <id> --json.
  6. Validate definitions before saving:
    • Tests: agent_qa_validate_test or agent_qa_validate_definition with kind: "test"
    • Suites: agent_qa_validate_suite or agent_qa_validate_definition with kind: "suite"
    • Hooks: agent_qa_validate_definition with kind: "hooks"
  7. Prefer MCP authoring mutations:
    • Tests: agent_qa_create_test, agent_qa_update_test, agent_qa_delete_test
    • Suites: agent_qa_create_suite, agent_qa_update_suite, agent_qa_delete_suite
    • Hooks: agent_qa_create_hook, agent_qa_update_hook, agent_qa_delete_hook
  8. Use CLI or YAML fallback only when MCP is unavailable. Keep file paths matched by workspace.testMatch or workspace.suiteMatch.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago Changed · +2 lines 018c5d1168cb
  2. 11d ago First seen · 94 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 879727bb6d3e

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agent-qa-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,230 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,078 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.