What is agentic-qa-core?

A shared reference library for a software-testing framework's other workflow skills.

It supplies references for testing, test automation, project discovery, and related workflows; by itself, it does not create files or run those workflows.

It keeps common testing rules and orchestration guidance in one place and prevents this library from being mistaken for a workflow that changes files.

agentic-qa-core — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by upex-galaxy

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 upex-galaxy/agentic-qa-boilerplate --skill agentic-qa-core

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/upex-galaxy/agentic-qa-boilerplate

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,732 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00115	$0.02732
Opus 5	$0.00057	$0.01366
Sonnet 5	$0.00023	$0.00546
Haiku 4.5	$0.00012	$0.00273

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8fcc89349322, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agentic-qa-core scanned grade A 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| `references/api-testing-doctrine.md` | `sprint-testing`, `test-automation`, `test-documentation` | **Canonical API-testing maneuver** (agentic level, not KATA code): the three-tool split — OpenAPI MCP = schema READ-ONL

.agents/skills/agentic-qa-core/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agentic QA Core — Foundation reference host

agentic-qa-core is the shared reference library that every workflow skill in this repo cites. It exists so doctrine (briefing template, dispatch patterns, orchestration rules, skill composition tiers) lives in one place instead of being duplicated across every SKILL.md.

Loading a workflow skill (e.g. shift-left-testing, sprint-testing, test-automation) implies loading the relevant agentic-qa-core/references/*.md on demand — workflow skills declare a ## Dependencies block at the top so the AI knows what to pull in.

This skill does NOT orchestrate workflows, does NOT generate files, and does NOT bootstrap a target repo. The entire framework (skills, foundation files, scripts) ships together as one repo; à la carte adoption is not supported — see "Install model" below.

Compact Rules

DO NOT create, modify, or delete ANY file while acting as agentic-qa-core. It is a passive reference library with no write path of its own.
DO NOT write .context/ artifacts here (that is /project-discovery), scaffold tests / fixtures / KATA components (that is /adapt-framework and /test-automation), adapt the framework to a stack (/adapt-framework), sync AI-critical docs (/sync-ai-context), or sync OpenAPI schemas (bun run api:sync).
DO NOT orchestrate a workflow or bootstrap a target repo from this skill. It hosts doctrine; the workflow skills execute it.
WHEN a workflow skill cites agentic-qa-core/references/*.md: load ONLY the files that skill's ## Dependencies block names. Never preload the whole reference set.
WHEN deriving test cases or coverage from acceptance criteria in ANY testing skill: references/test-design-doctrine.md is mandatory reading first.
WHEN filing any bug / defect / improvement: references/defect-management-doctrine.md is mandatory reading first.
WHEN dispatching a subagent: use the 7-component briefing in references/briefing-template.md and pick the pattern via references/dispatch-patterns.md. A subagent that must answer the user directly also loads references/behavioral-layer.md — it inherits no register from the orchestrator.
WHEN closing a workflow stage: verify that stage's Definition of Done in references/stage-gates.md BEFORE advancing.
DO edit the owning skill's references/*.md when a rule changes, then run bun run skills:registry, then refresh the deck under packages/decks/agentic-qa-core/. That order keeps prose, registry, and decks from drifting.
DO treat this boilerplate as clone-in-full. Copying a single skill directory in isolation leaves it without the foundation files it depends on, and it will not function.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Files

What ships with it

18 files 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.

9d ago First seen · 115 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 8fcc89349322

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agentic-qa-core is a skill published in the GitHub repository upex-galaxy/agentic-qa-boilerplate (21 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 2,732 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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