sumo-qa-answering-testing-question

sumo-qa-answering-testing-question is a skill for Claude Code from sumithr/sumo-qa. It costs 73 tokens per session (2,707 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for answering broad software-testing questions using a testing principle or technique from its catalogue. It redirects specific requests, such as writing a bug test or reviewing a pull request, to more suitable QA guides.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for general questions like how to test something or how boundary testing works, when the request does not fit a more specific QA task.
Why use it?
It helps avoid generic testing advice when a more focused workflow is needed, such as planning QA, writing a test first, or checking mutation-test results.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the sumo-qa plugin — 20 skills, 2 agents, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it for general questions like how to test something or how boundary testing works, when the request does not fit a more specific QA task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sumithr/sumo-qa/sumo-qa-answering-testing-question
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 sumithr/sumo-qa --skill sumo-qa-answering-testing-question
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sumithr/sumo-qa

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sumo-qa, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 2 agents, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,707 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.
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 $0.00073 $0.02707
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.01083
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00541
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00271

Measured 27d ago against content hash db431c3eaf64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sumo-qa-answering-testing-question 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 27d 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/sumo-qa-answering-testing-question/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Answering a testing question

Before answering — check fit (Redirect discipline)

FIRST step. Redirect — don't answer with catalogue principles — when the question is really:

  • "Are my PR tests good enough / safe to merge / review my changes" → sumo-qa-reviewing-before-merge (it inspects the diff, names risks, runs the suite, delivers a gated verdict — the right tool here, not catalogue citation).
  • "plan QA for [story/ticket]" → sumo-qa-preparing-for-work (lightweight) or sumo-qa-creating-test-plan (formal).
  • "write me a failing test for [bug]" → sumo-qa-implementing-with-tdd.
  • "mutation flagged survivors / kill these mutants" → sumo-qa-strengthening-tests.
  • "where is the test data for X / validate this record" → sumo-qa-finding-test-data.

ONLY answer directly when the question is genuinely generic ("what is the ISTQB principle for X?", "how do boundary tests work?") and fits none of those. Anti-pattern: answering a PR-review / plan-QA / write-a-test / mutation-survivor / test-data question with catalogue principles instead of redirecting.

Output discipline (mandatory)

Inherits the global discipline from using-sumo-qa: output discipline (never surface internal taxonomy labels — say "behaviour change in pricing", not "Classification: business_logic_change"), output economy (spend output on findings not framing; no preamble or self-narration; one clarifying question only when blocked; no closing pleasantries), knowledge authority hierarchy, internal scaffolding stays internal, and specialty-tool fit.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 27d ago Changed · -2 lines db431c3eaf64
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +13 tokens per session fb4218cf55e8
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 102 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A e0a7a0f326af

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sumo-qa-answering-testing-question is a skill published in the GitHub repository sumithr/sumo-qa (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 2,707 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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