qa-gate

qa-gate is a skill for Claude Code from ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo. It costs 139 tokens per session (1,136 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-delivery quality check for a website or software build. It reviews the build in nine phases and returns a verdict, risk level, grouped findings, estimated fix time, and a client-ready yes or no.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check forms, links, JavaScript errors, responsive layouts, accessibility, performance, and completeness against a brief before delivery.
Why use it?
It helps find broken features, layout problems, missing requirements, and other release risks before the build reaches a client. It reports problems but does not fix them.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the designer-pro-and-seo plugin — 41 skills, 14 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to check forms, links, JavaScript errors, responsive layouts, accessibility, performance, and completeness against a brief before delivery.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zacharticulatev/designer-pro-and-seo/qa-gate
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 ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo --skill qa-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install designer-pro-and-seo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 14 agents, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Your own site
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Per session 139 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,136 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.
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 $0.00139 $0.01136
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.00568
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00114

Measured 11d ago against content hash f22402b6f13d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-gate 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.

skills/qa-gate/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

qa-gate

Family: build-and-qa Status: Stable

Purpose

The mandatory pre-delivery gate for any client-bound build. Walks the build through 9 phases and produces a structured pass/fail report with a risk rating and an explicit YES/NO client-ready verdict. This is the gate, not the fix — it reports; remediation happens in the appropriate skills.

Triggers

  • "qa check" / "qa gate"
  • "is this ready to ship" / "client-ready check"
  • "pre-delivery review"
  • "stress test the site"

Inputs

  • Build URL or local path
  • Target client/audience
  • Deployment target (Vercel, WordPress, GHL, etc.)
  • Brief or original spec (for the completeness check)

Steps

  1. Load the report template templates/qa-report-template.md.
  2. Detect tooling. Check whether the Playwright extension is available (see extensions/playwright/). If yes, use it for live phases; if no, run the static path and mark live-only checks N/A — needs Playwright.
  3. Run the 9 phases, recording PASS / WARN / FAIL / N/A for each:
    1. Functional — forms submit, links resolve, no console JS errors.
    2. Visual fidelity — matches the design system; responsive at 375/768/1280; no broken layouts. (Playwright deepens this; design-visual-qa for diffs.)
    3. Accessibility — dispatch the design-accessibility agent (axe + WCAG AA when Playwright is connected; else its bundled a11y_static.py structural checks — contrast, alt text, heading order, labels, focus visibility).
    4. Performance — Core Web Vitals (LCP < 2.5s, CLS < 0.1, INP < 200ms). Dispatch the seo-google agent for PSI/CrUX field data when a key/MCP is connected (the free PSI/CrUX key is preferred; any paid call routes through cost_guard.py, which fails open to the free path); else flag CWV for field verification.
    5. Security — HTTPS, security headers, no exposed secrets in source, audit third-party scripts.
    6. Content completeness — no lorem ipsum, no broken images, no placeholder copy; compare against the brief for missing pieces.
    7. SEO baseline — dispatch the seo-page agent (title, meta, OG, schema, canonical, images, internal links) as a real fan-out, not a prose handoff.
    8. Cross-device / browser — sanity at key breakpoints/browsers.
    9. Deployment readiness — env vars set, redirects, analytics installed, DNS.
  4. Apply the verdict rule. Any unresolved CRITICAL ⇒ OVERALL = FAIL and CLIENT-READY = NO. CONDITIONAL PASS only when remaining items are WARN or lower.
  5. Estimate fix time and bucket findings into Critical / Warnings / Recommendations / Nice-to-haves.
  6. Render the filled qa-report-template.md. Never declare client-ready with an open critical issue.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 11d ago First seen · 85 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A f22402b6f13d

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qa-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 139 tokens to every session and 1,136 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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