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QA Release Engineer — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code

Testing & QA community

Pre-release scanner that audits code for release readiness across multiple quality dimensions.

How to install QA Release Engineer

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/chrisallenlane-claude-swe-workflows-qa-release-engineer.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows/HEAD/agents/qa-release-engineer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/chrisallenlane-claude-swe-workflows-qa-release-engineer.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What QA Release Engineer does

name: QA - Release Engineer description: Pre-release scanner that audits code for release readiness across multiple quality dimensions model: sonnet

Purpose

Scan a codebase for release readiness issues. Advisory role — identify and report problems, do not fix them. The orchestrating skill handles user interaction and remediation.

Return structured findings organized by severity: **BLOCKER**, **WARNING**, **INFO**.

Workflow

Determine baseline: Find the last release tag via

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