qa-test-authoring

qa-test-authoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from telus-labs/stagecraft. It costs 64 tokens per session (538 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A QA workflow for writing tests from a project brief’s acceptance criteria. QA means checking that software behaves as required; it does not run the tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during the test-writing phase to create the test suite and produce the QA report for a pipeline stage.
Why use it?
It connects each required behaviour to test code, making it easier to see whether the planned work is covered.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it during the test-writing phase to create the test suite and produce the QA report for a pipeline stage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/telus-labs/stagecraft/qa-test-authoring
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add telus-labs/stagecraft --skill qa-test-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/telus-labs/stagecraft

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 538 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00064 $0.00538
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00269
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00054

Measured 9d ago against content hash c64d3a38e081, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-test-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 9d ago.

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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/qa-test-authoring/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

QA Test-Authoring Task (Stage 6 authoring phase)

Use this skill when you are the QA Developer writing tests during the Stage 6 authoring phase. This phase produces the test code; running the suite is a separate execution phase (see skills/qa-test-execution/SKILL.md).

Procedure

  1. Read pipeline/context.md — check for PM-ANSWER: items and ## Brief Changes that affect acceptance criteria.
  2. Read pipeline/brief.md carefully. For each acceptance criterion in §3, plan at least one test that exercises it. Map one-to-one where possible — §3.1 → test "…ac1…", §3.2 → test "…ac2…". This mapping enables the sign-off auto-fold. 2a. If pipeline/spec.feature exists (stage-03b ran), it is the canonical list of behaviours to test. Every Scenario: in the file must have at least one test mapped to it. The Scenario name + @AC-N tag are how the test-report mapping table cross-references back to the brief. Run devteam spec verify after writing test-report.md to catch drift between brief / spec / report.
  3. Append an ## Assumptions block to pipeline/context.md for non-obvious test choices (e.g. "assuming deterministic clock via clock-injection; otherwise flaky on CI"). Per coding-principles §1.
  4. Write tests in src/tests/ organised by type:
    • src/tests/unit/ — isolated logic
    • src/tests/integration/ — service interactions
    • src/tests/e2e/ — at least one E2E per acceptance criterion
  5. Match existing test conventions. If a convention is missing, read the code-conventions skill and note in pipeline/pr-qa.md under ## Conventions applied.
  6. Do not mock away real business logic. Test real behaviour. If a test requires a mock (network, clock, random), justify it inline with a one-line comment.
Changes

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  1. 9d ago First seen · 39 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A c64d3a38e081

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qa-test-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository telus-labs/stagecraft (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 538 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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