# agent-qa-authoring

This skill guides agents through creating, checking, and running agent-qa tests, suites, and hooks. Use it when you want changes to follow agent-qa’s schema and workflow.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 893
- Author: vostride
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/vostride/agent-qa/tree/HEAD/skills/agent-qa-authoring/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/agent-qa-authoring

## What it does

The skill lays out an agent-qa workflow: inspect the available MCP tools and workspace posture, consult the bundled contracts when exact fields matter, then verify a draft before writing it. It routes new tests and suites through `agent_qa_write_test`, test edits through `agent_qa_refine_test`, and configuration changes through `agent_qa_change_config`. Each write takes effect during the tool call.

IDs must come from the host system; the agent should read them from the returned entity rather than inventing or checking them by hand. Runs start with `agent_qa_start_run` and file patterns passed as `patterns`. The local server rejects `scope`, so leave it out. A run targeting `environment: production` is blocked unless `agent-qa.config.yaml` has top-level `allowProduction: true`. Deleting tests and editing an existing hook remain manual repository changes.

Only values from the file named by `workspace.secretsFile` are masked. Environment variables, `workspace.envFile` values, cookies, and screenshots are not, so use temporary credentials with limited access. Test and suite paths must also match `workspace.testMatch` or `workspace.suiteMatch`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add vostride/agent-qa --skill agent-qa-authoring -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/agent-qa-authoring/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/agent-qa-authoring/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add vostride/agent-qa --skill agent-qa-authoring -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/agent-qa-authoring/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add vostride/agent-qa --skill agent-qa-authoring -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/agent-qa-authoring/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install vostride/agent-qa agent-qa-authoring
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/agent-qa-authoring/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add vostride/agent-qa --skill agent-qa-authoring -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/vostride/agent-qa --path skills/agent-qa-authoring
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/agent-qa-authoring/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add vostride/agent-qa --skill agent-qa-authoring -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/vostride/agent-qa/tree/HEAD/skills/agent-qa-authoring/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- author an agent-qa test or suite
- verify a draft before writing it
- change configuration to add a hook
- run tests using file paths or globs
- inspect recent runs and retrieve a digest

## Example prompts
- Create an agent-qa test for the login flow and place it in a suitable suite.
- Check this test draft against the agent-qa contract, then write it if verification passes.
- Run the agent-qa tests matching `tests/login*` and report the run result.

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: agent-qa-authoring
description: Use when creating, editing, validating, or running agent-qa tests, suites, or hooks. Prefer agent-qa MCP tools, enforce canonical agent-qa IDs, and use the bundled schema reference to avoid hallucinated config keys or YAML fields.
metadata:
  short-description: Author agent-qa tests safely
---

# agent-qa Authoring

## Workflow

1. Discover the surface from the protocol itself: `tools/list` names every tool, and every caller
   sees and may call the same set. For the full picture — the capability catalog, the v1 to v2
   tool-name migration map, and this workspace's posture — run `npx agent-qa init --agent`, which
   prints one JSON document and writes nothing.
2. Read the workspace posture from that same manifest: whether this workspace has a configuration
   that reads. No MCP tool reads configuration.
3. Load `references/agent-qa-contracts.json` when you need exact schema fields or ID contracts.
4. Never mint an ID and never hand-write one. IDs are minted host-side where the entity is written:
   name what you want, then read the id back off the entity card `agent_qa_get_entity` returns.
5. Never validate an ID by hand either. The one URI codec validates every `agentqa://` reference as
   it is parsed, including the one `agent_qa_get_entity` resolves — a reference that comes back
   resolved is a reference that was well-formed.
6. Validate before you write. `agent_qa_refine_test`'s verify arm returns the same verdict that
   gates the write; there is no standalone linter over pasted text, on purpose, because a second
   validator can disagree with the one that gates.
7. Authoring changes apply in the call, and each answer names what it wrote:
   - A new test or suite file: `agent_qa_write_test`, which names the suite file the draft joins and
     writes it unless a keep-gate rejected it. Its `written` receipt names the file it wrote, or why
     none was written, with the draft's disposition and the four keep-gate results: that is how well
     the written test was verified.
     - If it answers `refused` with `statedValueRefusal`, the draft lost a value the request stated
       (a quoted string, number, price or date): show the user its `stage` and each of its
       `missingValues`, and stop. Never reword the request to get past the check; asking again in
       their own words is the user's call.
   - An edit to a test: `agent_qa_refine_test`.
   - A new hook or another configuration change: `agent_qa_change_config`, which writes the change
```
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