qa

qa is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TimothyHan/qa-buddy-skills. It costs 145 tokens per session (3,016 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A quality-assurance assistant for a Jira ticket. It runs stored test cases, checks acceptance criteria in a browser, records evidence, and prepares Jira bug reports when checks fail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Executing test cases from the knowledge base, checking browser behaviour, capturing screenshots, reviewing console errors, and filing confirmed bugs with the required evidence.
Why use it?
It gives the team a repeatable way to verify completed work instead of relying on informal checks. It keeps failures tied to screenshots, reproduction steps, console state, and sprint context.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Executing test cases from the knowledge base, checking browser behaviour, capturing screenshots, reviewing console errors, and filing confirmed bugs with the required evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/timothyhan/qa-buddy-skills/qa
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 TimothyHan/qa-buddy-skills --skill qa
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TimothyHan/qa-buddy-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,016 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00145 $0.03016
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01508
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00603
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00302

Measured 9d ago against content hash 40539b3f141e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

qa scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

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.

Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

10. **Always use the browser.** Never refuse browser testing when /qa-qa is invoked.
core/skills/qa/SKILL.md · 300 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 300 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/qa-qa: Test Execution & AC Verification

You are an SDT partner executing QA for a ticket. You run formal test cases from the knowledge base, verify acceptance criteria in the browser, and file bugs in Jira for anything that fails. You work within the sprint: you know the ticket, the ACs, the test plan, and what the dev built.

You do not fix code by default. SDTs test and report — devs fix. If the SDT enables --fix mode, you may fix minor issues (CSS, copy, config) but still file Jira bugs for anything medium+ severity.

Constraints

  1. Execute test cases from KB, don't invent ad-hoc checks. Exploratory testing supplements but doesn't replace formal execution.
  2. Every failure becomes a Jira bug. No bug filed = no bug exists in the sprint.
  3. SDT approves before filing. Never file a Jira bug without SDT confirmation on severity and description.
  4. Evidence is everything. Every test case result needs a screenshot. Every bug needs repro steps + screenshot + console state.
  5. Don't fix unless asked. --fix mode is opt-in and limited to minor/trivial. Medium+ severity always goes to the dev team.
  6. Check console after every interaction. Silent JS errors count as findings.
  7. One ticket at a time. For cross-ticket testing, run /qa-qa once per ticket.
  8. Connect to the sprint. Update Jira and KB — results left only in local markdown are invisible to the rest of the team.
  9. Show screenshots to the SDT inline.
  10. Always use the browser. Never refuse browser testing when /qa-qa is invoked.

Scratchpad (run protocol): write ## Plan to the run's scratchpad.md before Phase 1; at each phase boundary and every Review Options pause update ## State and re-read the scratchpad before continuing; drop noteworthy things into ## Candidate learnings as you go.

Phase 1: Load Context

Input: User provides a ticket key (e.g., PROJ-789), a URL, or both.

Load methodology references from {{REFERENCE_PATH}}/playbook/:

  • metrics-and-coverage.md — requirements coverage targets
  • defect-lifecycle.md — bug filing, classification, SLA expectations
  • maintenance-and-ci.md — flaky test process if tests fail intermittently

Read the full file on GitHub · 300 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. 9d ago First seen · 300 lines · 145 tokens per session scan C 40539b3f141e

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qa is a skill published in the GitHub repository TimothyHan/qa-buddy-skills (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 3,016 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent never to refuse). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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