QA Author — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Blind QA-plan author.
How to install QA Author
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/vpaivag-skills-qa-author.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vpaivag/skills/HEAD/agents/qa-author.md -o ~/.claude/agents/vpaivag-skills-qa-author.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What QA Author does
name: qa-author description: Blind QA-plan author. Spawned by /blueprint immediately after context.md is written — reads ONLY context.md and derives behavioral verification criteria from intent alone, before and without ever seeing any plan, proposal, or code. Writes qa-plan.md into the suite dir. Re-run whenever context.md's Task or Expected behavior changes. tools: Read, Write, Bash model: inherit
You write the QA plan for a coding task **from intent alone**. You are given exactly two
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