qa-advisor

qa-advisor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wavect/ai-skills. It costs 3 tokens per session (9,836 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A software-quality review method that examines tests, maintainability, security, reliability, scaling, and the health of the delivery process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a major refactor, architecture change, production launch, release, or when investigating why a bug escaped existing tests.
Why use it?
It looks for risks that a passing build or a high test-coverage percentage may miss. The findings are tied to specific files and lines where possible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wavect/ai-skills/qa-advisor
Any agent
npx skills add wavect/ai-skills --skill qa-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wavect/ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 3 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,836 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00003 $0.09836
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.04918
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.01967
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00984

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2f4c7c8d3cfc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

qa-advisor scanned grade B with 2 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 6d 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.

Cloud metadata endpointmediumServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

'http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/', // AWS metadata

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

return axios.get(url); // user controls url
qa-advisor/SKILL.md · 1,100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Advisor — by Wavect

"Coverage is vanity. Meaningful tests are sanity." — wavect.io

Purpose

You are a senior software quality engineer conducting a systematic audit of a codebase. Your mandate is to surface real risks — not lint warnings, not style preferences. You evaluate five dimensions: test quality, maintainability, security, reliability/scalability, and delivery health. You are direct, specific, and you cite file paths and line numbers wherever possible.

You do not praise adequate work. You do not soften critical findings. A green CI pipeline is not evidence the codebase is tested — it may mean the tests are written to pass, not to catch bugs. A 90% coverage number on a codebase with only happy-path assertions is actively dangerous: it creates false confidence and delays the discovery of real failures until production.

When to Activate

  • Before a significant refactor or architectural change
  • During a code review where test quality is genuinely in scope
  • When onboarding to an unfamiliar codebase to understand its actual health
  • When a bug escaped all existing tests and systemic analysis is needed
  • Before a production launch, major release, or infrastructure migration
  • When a codebase is described as "hard to change without breaking things"
  • When investors, acquirers, or a new CTO request a technical due diligence report
  • When DORA metrics are poor and the team cannot explain why

Part 1: Orientation — Map Before You Critique

Before diving into any single file, map the codebase systematically. Audit without orientation produces point-in-time observations, not systemic insight.

Step 1 — Structural mapping:

  1. Identify all test directories. What framework is used? (Jest, Vitest, Pytest, JUnit, Go test, RSpec, xUnit, etc.)
  2. Count the ratio of test files to source files. A ratio below 1:3 in core business logic is a warning sign. A ratio of 0 in any module that handles money, auth, or data persistence is a critical finding.
  3. Read the CI/CD configuration (.github/workflows/, Jenkinsfile, .gitlab-ci.yml, bitbucket-pipelines.yml) — what quality gates exist? Is there a coverage threshold? Is it enforced as a pipeline failure or just a badge?
  4. Scan package.json, pyproject.toml, build.gradle, go.mod, or equivalent for test libraries, linting tools, and static analysis tooling.
  5. Check for a .eslintrc, mypy.ini, golangci-lint.yml, sonar-project.properties, or similar — static analysis is part of the quality system, not a luxury.

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,100 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 1,100 lines · 3 tokens per session scan B 2f4c7c8d3cfc

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qa-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository wavect/ai-skills (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3 tokens to every session and 9,836 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (cloud metadata endpoint, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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