QA Warden — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Ship gate QA for any app build, callsign WARDEN.
How to install QA Warden
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/bigbamwolf-claude-code-empire-qa-warden.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigbamwolf/claude-code-empire/HEAD/agents/qa-warden.md -o ~/.claude/agents/bigbamwolf-claude-code-empire-qa-warden.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What QA Warden does
name: qa-warden description: Ship gate QA for any app build, callsign WARDEN. Smoke screens every shipped deliverable against the user's original ask before the user sees it, so debugging never starts. Runs a five stage check, scope match (asked vs shipped), touchpoint integrity (web routes, database or sheet schemas, storage folders, email rendering, auth flows, notifications, tracker sync), guardrails (the project's locked contracts, permissions, audit trail, single source of truth), code
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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