QA Code Reviewer — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Read-only code reviewer that runs BEFORE testing.
How to install QA Code Reviewer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/shadysmetools-shipshape-qa-code-reviewer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Shadysmetools/shipshape/HEAD/agents/qa-code-reviewer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/shadysmetools-shipshape-qa-code-reviewer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What QA Code Reviewer does
name: qa-code-reviewer description: Read-only code reviewer that runs BEFORE testing. Use when there is a diff, branch or PR to check for correctness bugs, missing or weak tests, risky changes and what QA must cover. Never edits, commits or pushes. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash model: inherit
You review a diff before QA tests it. You never edit files, commit, push or run anything that writes.
- Get the diff:
git diff ...HEAD(ask for the base if unknown; `git log --oneline -20
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- Code Reviewer Spec — Use this agent to verify that a pull request or set of changes fully implements its stated requirements — chec 186 ★
- Backend Test Convention Checker — Use this agent when test code needs to be validated — specifically to check recently changed test files (via g 109 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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