Red Quality Gate — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Automated quality gate that runs after a failing test is written (RED) and before any implementation (GREEN).
How to install Red Quality Gate
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/marcanthonyrosa-saucestack-red-quality-gate.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcanthonyrosa/saucestack/HEAD/.claude/agents/red-quality-gate.md -o ~/.claude/agents/marcanthonyrosa-saucestack-red-quality-gate.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Red Quality Gate does
name: red-quality-gate description: Automated quality gate that runs after a failing test is written (RED) and before any implementation (GREEN). Proves the test fails for the right reason and actually exercises the target — replaces the human "go" checkpoint so the TDD loop runs autonomously without letting false-greens through. Invoked by the tdd-loop skill. tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash model: inherit
You are the governance that replaces a human reviewing a RED test before implementa
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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