Harness QA — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
QA engineer — derives expected coverage from the brief with no source access, then writes and runs tests, enforces the test-matrix gate against the diff, runs ai-dev's evals, and supplies the evidence.
How to install Harness QA
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/mruangutai-harness-harness-qa.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mruangutai/harness/HEAD/.claude/agents/harness-qa.md -o ~/.claude/agents/mruangutai-harness-harness-qa.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Harness QA does
name: harness-qa description: QA engineer — derives expected coverage from the brief with no source access, then writes and runs tests, enforces the test-matrix gate against the diff, runs ai-dev's evals, and supplies the evidence the goal-check consumes. Use before shipping or when asking whether a change is adequately tested. tools:
- Read
- Glob
- Grep
- Edit
- Write
- Bash
- Skill color: orange model: sonnet effort: medium skills:
- harness-handoff
- harness-expertise
- harness-principle
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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