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git:20260817.151bbe1 to git:20260827.51fb967
3 added, 3 removed. Audit A to A.
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name: qa-sweep
description: >
Run a multi-lens agent QA sweep of the RUNNING product: spawn `qa` agents (one per lens —
user-flow · edge-state · honesty · contract · ux-critique), collect their structured
findings, integrator-verify the load-bearing ones, and land verified findings as backlog
- tickets + a run record in docs/qa/. Use whenever the user asks to QA, test, or probe the
+ tickets + a run record in the project's qa/ folder. Use whenever the user asks to QA, test, or probe the
product from the user's side — "qa sweep", "test the UI", "walk the flows", "find
inconsistencies", "check how this looks to a client" — and proactively after integrating any
large UI slice, before a milestone, or when a manual walk found one bug and siblings are
likely. Trigger even when the user names only one angle (e.g. "check the API errors") — pick
the matching lens subset. NOT for unit testing (your test suite does that) and NOT a
replacement for the integrator's own acceptance walk.
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# QA Sweep — multi-lens agent QA of the live product
- Read `docs/qa/README.md` FIRST (the protocol SSOT: environment rules · the five lens briefs ·
+ Read `projects/<name>/qa/README.md` FIRST (the protocol SSOT: environment rules · the five lens briefs ·
findings format · triage) — the lens briefs in agent prompts come verbatim from there, and the
account/mutation policy it sets is a hard rail, not advice. If that file doesn't exist yet,
create it from the layer's protocol template (`${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/reference/qa-PROTOCOL-TEMPLATE.md` in
the kit repo — copy it from there if this project only adopted the layer's `.claude/` files)
and fill the placeholders before sweeping.
## Steps
1. **Preflight (integrator, by hand):** bring up the stack the protocol names (app · API ·
store) · pick the account per the protocol's policy (the demo/real account = OBSERVE-ONLY
always; the seeded sacrificial account = mutation QA only when the run brief grants it) ·
make sure nothing else is writing to the shared store during the sweep (no integration test
suites, no live jobs).
2. **Pick lenses** for this run (default: user-flow + contract in parallel, then edge-state,
then honesty + ux-critique). Browser lenses run CONCURRENTLY via the isolated Playwright MCP
servers the protocol lists (one server per concurrent browser agent — mechanism + logged-in
seed recipe in the protocol § Parallel lenses). Browser lenses: user-flow · edge-state ·
ux-critique. Non-browser: contract (curl) · honesty (curl + read-only store queries).
3. **Spawn `qa` agents** with the lens brief from the protocol § Lens briefs + the run scope
(which screens/flows changed recently — QA the delta first, then one broad pass).
4. **Verify before ticketing (the fact-check rule):** reproduce every P1/P2 finding yourself
(the named repro steps) before it becomes a ticket. Unreproducible → back to the agent or
drop with a note. «Impressions» never become tickets directly.
5. **Land the results:** verified findings → backlog tickets (P1/P2) or a minors batch (P3) ·
- one run record `docs/qa/qa-run-YYYYMMDD.md` (lenses run · coverage · findings table with
+ one run record `projects/<name>/qa/qa-run-YYYYMMDD.md` (lenses run · coverage · findings table with
verified/dropped status · pointers to tickets) · a row in the protocol's § Runs index.
6. **Cleanup:** stop dev servers, remove stray screenshots from the repo root, re-seed the
sacrificial account if a mutation run dirtied it.