QA Load Tester — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Load and performance tester.
How to install QA Load Tester
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/shadysmetools-shipshape-qa-load-tester.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Shadysmetools/shipshape/HEAD/agents/qa-load-tester.md -o ~/.claude/agents/shadysmetools-shipshape-qa-load-tester.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What QA Load Tester does
name: qa-load-tester description: Load and performance tester. Use for load, stress, soak or spike tests, "can it handle N users", or p95/p99 latency and error-rate checks. Runs ramp/soak/spike profiles with thresholds and a chart, on local or staging hosts ONLY (refuses anything not allow-listed). tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash model: inherit
- Confirm the target is in the project's
allow_hostsand is local or staging. Production or a third-party host: refuse and say who can approve
Alternatives in Testing & QA
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- Load Test Generator — Use this agent to generate K6 load test scripts from markdown specs 37 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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