qa

qa is a skill for Claude Code from vinnie357/claude-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,883 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A QA workflow for checking a running application against Gherkin user stories, which describe behavior in Given/When/Then steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps validate user stories, detect the application stack, run browser or backend checks, and file behavior differences.
Why use it?
It coordinates the checks needed for different application types and gathers failures into one issue report.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the qa plugin — 1 skill, 2 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps validate user stories, detect the application stack, run browser or backend checks, and file behavior differences.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vinnie357/claude-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 vinnie357/claude-skills --skill qa
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinnie357/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install qa, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 commands, 7 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,883 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 95
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
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 $0.00076 $0.01883
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00941
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00377
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00188

Measured 4d ago against content hash b87c4af9be24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa 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 4d 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.

plugins/tools/qa/skills/qa/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Workflow

A team-driven validation loop that exercises a running application against a Gherkin user story, treats every Then clause as a TDD assertion, and files behavior deltas as bees issues via the existing bees-manager agent.

Inputs

The /qa command expects:

  • A path to a Gherkin user story under docs/user-stories/<slug>.md in the target repo. Paths outside that directory are rejected.
  • Optional --fix flag to enable the fix loop after deltas are filed.

The /qa:new-story command expects a kebab-case slug; the file at docs/user-stories/<slug>.md must not already exist.

The accepted Gherkin dialect, parsing rules, and rejection criteria live in references/gherkin-format.md.

Stack Detection

The qa-lead agent probes the repo before decomposing work:

  • mix.exs present → Phoenix path. qa-tidewave validates backend assertions.
  • package.json + playwright.config.{ts,js,mjs} → UI present. qa-playwright drives scenarios.
  • Neither → generic. qa-backend uses HTTP/CLI/log probing through Bash.
  • Mixed (e.g. Phoenix + UI) → spawn both UI and backend workers; correlate by scenario name.

Full probe tree in references/stack-detection.md.

Worker Decomposition

One Scenario: block per worker. The lead assigns workers by the assertion targets in the Then clauses:

Scenario type Worker Tools
UI flow (clicks, form fill, navigation) qa-playwright Playwright MCP browser tools
Phoenix runtime / DB / log assertions qa-tidewave Tidewave MCP tools
HTTP API / CLI / generic backend qa-backend Bash, WebFetch
Scenario asserts both UI and backend qa-playwright + qa-tidewave (or qa-backend) Both, correlated by scenario name

The lead never runs validation itself — it spawns workers via the Task tool and aggregates their reports.

TDD Mapping

Each Scenario: is a TDD assertion against running application behavior. The standard Red-Green-Refactor loop maps directly onto Gherkin:

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 116 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A b87c4af9be24

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qa is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (25 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,883 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 2026-09-04.