sumo-qa-preparing-for-work

sumo-qa-preparing-for-work is a skill for Claude Code from sumithr/sumo-qa. It costs 73 tokens per session (3,224 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A lightweight QA planning guide for a story, ticket, or other piece of work before coding begins. It identifies risks in the proposed change and links each risk to a small set of tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare QA for a new change, list likely breakages, and choose the smallest useful tests before implementation.
Why use it?
It helps avoid guessing what to test or creating a large test plan too early. Each test is connected to a specific way the change could fail.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

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

Good fit Use it to prepare QA for a new change, list likely breakages…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sumithr/sumo-qa/sumo-qa-preparing-for-work
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-preparing-for-work
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 3,224 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 $0.03224
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01612
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00645
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00322

Measured 6d ago against content hash 753c1965c909, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sumo-qa-preparing-for-work 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 6d 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-preparing-for-work/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Preparing for QA work

Announce at start: "Naming risks and the smallest test set."

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 question per turn; no closing pleasantries), knowledge authority hierarchy, internal scaffolding stays internal, and specialty-tool fit.

The Iron Law

NO TEST IDEA WITHOUT A NAMED RISK. Every test you propose ties to a specific risk you identified.

When to Use

User intents that trigger this skill:

  • "plan QA for this story"
  • "I'm starting work on X — what should I test?"
  • "what could break with this change?"
  • "QA prep for ticket ABC-123"

Distinct from sumo-qa-creating-test-plan (formal entry/exit criteria, phases, deliverables) and from sumo-qa-deciding-approach (which only picks the approach). This skill produces a risk-shaped prep brief: named risks + smallest useful test set + named techniques + specialty fits if relevant.

Checklist

Track these as an ordered work list (use the host's task primitive if available, otherwise a numbered inline tracker) and complete in order:

  1. Read the user's intent and target paths.
  2. Call sumo_qa_load_standards(classification=...) and sumo_qa_load_rules(classification=...) using the classification the previous sumo-qa-deciding-approach step settled on.
  3. Read the actual files in scope using the host's file tools. Do NOT ask the user for file content the host can read directly. When .sumo-qa/repo-map.json is present, sumo_qa_query_repo_map locates candidate tests and files for the area by path / tag / type (e.g. test_file) — a fast way to find what already exists, sharpening the named risks (step 4) and test set (step 7). Absent or stale → read the files directly; it's an accelerator, never a substitute for reading the code.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 6d ago First seen · 102 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 753c1965c909

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sumo-qa-preparing-for-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository sumithr/sumo-qa (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 3,224 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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