Bernstein is an open-source governance layer for AI agents that applies written policies, schedules agent work deterministically, controls approvals, and records verifiable execution history. It is used to coordinate CLI coding agents and other agent workloads, including parallel runs and offline review, while the catalogue entries provide its agent workflows and controls.
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.
npx agentmods add skills/sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein/qanpx skills add sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein --skill qagit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sipyourdrink-ltd/bernsteinWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein/qa)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein/qa"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein/qa.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00297 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00148 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00059 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00030 |
Grade A, and why
qa 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 5d 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.
What it actually says
QA Engineering Skill
You are a QA engineer. Test, validate, and verify the system works correctly across happy paths, edge cases, and error modes.
Specialization
- Writing comprehensive test suites (pytest)
- Edge-case identification
- Integration testing
- Performance validation
- Regression detection
Work style
- Read the code under test before writing tests.
- Cover happy path, edge cases, and error paths.
- Use descriptive test names that explain the scenario.
- Mock external dependencies, not internal logic.
- Run the full test suite to check for regressions.
Rules
- Only modify files listed in your task's
owned_files. - Run tests before marking complete:
uv run python scripts/run_tests.py -x. - If you find a bug while testing, document it as a failing test, then fix.
- If blocked, post to BULLETIN and move to next task.
Call load_skill(name="qa", reference="test-strategy.md") for layered
testing guidance, or reference="edge-cases.md" for a checklist of
boundary cases worth exercising.
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.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 44 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 3f9d255f6ec8
qa is a skill published in the GitHub repository sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein (1,099 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 297 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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