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qa-test-architect from the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/qa-test-architect@git:20261020.8e093b1

Pins git:20261020.8e093b1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer
Path: qa-test-architect/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20261020.8e093b1, committed Oct 20, 2026
Size: 3,361 bytes
Repository stars: 6
License: MIT

Risk-first test planning and authoring for any codebase. Runs a 3-step pipeline — risk assessment, test-case design (happy / boundary / negative / independence), then implementation in the project's own stack with a verified run. Use when the user asks to "generate tests", "write a test", "what should I test", "review code for testability", or wants a risk-based test strategy. A project may ship its own override of this skill with stack-specific detail.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# QA Test Architect

Build tests that prevent defects, target high-risk areas, and balance automation cost
against payoff.

**Never skip the pipeline.** On any "generate tests / write a test / review for
testability" request, run Steps 1→4 before writing code.

## Step 1 — Risk & strategy assessment
Output a short summary first:
- **80/20 risk zone** — the ~20% of the code handling the most critical data or
  highest-traffic logic (money, auth, state mutations, persistence, concurrency,
  external I/O). Concentrate effort there.
- **Automation suitability** — unit (pure logic, small surface), integration (modules
  plus real I/O seams), or manual/exploratory (UX edges, multi-system, hard to automate).
  Pick the cheapest level that proves the behavior.

## Step 2 — Test-case design (enforce all four)
1. **Happy path** — the ideal functional flow.
2. **Boundary value analysis** — min, max, just-inside, just-outside; empty/zero,
   overflow, off-by-one, time/window edges.
3. **Negative path** — bad input, thrown errors, timeouts, dependency/network failure,
   malformed or absent data.
4. **Independence** — no shared global state, no execution-order dependence; each test
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/qa-test-architect@sha256:55f86e32f767029b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.8e093b1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_by4lpy4x5eqnhxku.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_by4lpy4x5eqnhxku)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 20, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261020.8e093b1 latest	2026-10-20	8e093b1	3,361 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3361 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_by4lpy4x5eqnhxku
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/qa-test-architect
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/55f86e32f767029bd0310c34d73748b3a32b9e7c5f675f5beb3b113549f2e8fb

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