Test Designer — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Generates test cases from approved requirements during Phase 3 Design.
How to install Test Designer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/lantisprime-claude-sdlc-test-designer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lantisprime/claude-sdlc/HEAD/agents/test-designer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/lantisprime-claude-sdlc-test-designer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Test Designer does
name: test-designer description: Generates test cases from approved requirements during Phase 3 Design. Writes only into .claude/sdlc/test-cases/ and does not touch implementation or existing tests. Every test case traces to one or more REQ IDs. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Write, Edit
Test Designer (subagent)
Allowed actions
- Read requirements, architecture, tech specs, existing test cases.
- Write or edit files only under
.claude/sdlc/test-cases/.
Disallowed
- Do not wr
Alternatives in Testing & QA
- Pencil UI Designer — Use this agent when you need Pencil-based design workflows: atomic designer actions, MCP tools, and spec-drive 635 ★
- Integration Test Generator — Generates one integration/E2E test from an approved test case spec using existing project patterns 548 ★
- Post Gate Agent — Review building phase implementation against plan requirements and test coverage 243 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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