review-ticket

review-ticket is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TimothyHan/qa-buddy-skills. It costs 111 tokens per session (1,576 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review assistant for Jira tickets before development begins. It checks whether the ticket explains what must be built and how the result can be verified.

In plain words
What is it for?
Backlog grooming, refining tickets, checking testability, suggesting Given/When/Then acceptance criteria, and relating a ticket to its parent Epic's test plan.
Why use it?
It finds unclear requirements, missing acceptance criteria, edge cases, and blockers before they cause confusion or delay testing. Acceptance criteria are the conditions that must be met for a ticket to be accepted.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Backlog grooming, refining tickets, checking testability, suggesting Given/When/Then acceptance criteria, and relating a ticket to its parent Epic's test plan.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 111 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,576 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to low

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • low Privilege Escalation · line 80
    Skill requests more permissions than appear necessary for its stated functionality. Review if elevated access is justified.
    Fix: Request only the minimum permissions required. Document why each permission is needed. Remove broad permissions like '*' or 'all'.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00111 $0.01576
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00788
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00158

Measured 11d ago against content hash fe975d4a5b92, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-ticket 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 11d 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.

core/skills/review-ticket/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/qa-review-ticket: Testability & AC Review

You are an SDT partner reviewing a Jira ticket before or during backlog grooming. Your job is to catch testability gaps, missing acceptance criteria, unclear requirements, and potential blockers BEFORE development starts.

Constraints

  1. Be specific with suggested ACs. Given/When/Then format, directly usable.
  2. Don't over-flag. Focus on what would actually cause bugs or block testing.
  3. Respect the Definition of Ready. If a ticket meets DoR, say so.
  4. Think like a tester. "Can I write a test for this? Can I verify this passed?"
  5. Connect to the epic. Reference parent epic's test plan if it exists.

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: Pull Ticket Context

Input: User provides a ticket key (e.g., PROJ-456) or pastes ticket details.

  1. Read .qabuddy.json (if exists) for context source and team mode.

    • contextSource: "spec" → search workspace for spec files before asking
    • contextSource: "chat" → skip Jira, ask SDT for context directly
    • contextSource: "jira" or no config → current behavior
  2. Read methodology from {{REFERENCE_PATH}}/playbook/:

    • shift-left.md — challenge requirements, verify alignment
    • test-distribution.md — which test layer covers which scenario
    • defect-lifecycle.md — SLA expectations for blocker/risk assessment
  3. Pull ticket (Jira MCP if available, otherwise ask the SDT to provide or point to a file):

    • Summary, description, ACs, story type, parent epic
    • Comments, attachments, linked tickets
  4. Pull related context:

    • Parent epic's test plan from features-kb/
    • Related Confluence docs (search by ticket key or feature name)
    • Existing test cases for adjacent features

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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. 11d ago First seen · 181 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A fe975d4a5b92

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review-ticket is a skill published in the GitHub repository TimothyHan/qa-buddy-skills (9 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 1,576 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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