qa-context SKILL.md skillA

qa-context from aks-builds/quality-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add aks-builds/quality-skills/qa-context@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
aks-builds/quality-skills
Path
skills/qa-context/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed May 16, 2026
Size
9,670 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

When the user wants to create or update their QA context document, or whenever any other quality skill needs to understand the organization's stack, languages, CI provider, target browsers/devices/APIs, test environments, quality bar, and compliance scope. Read this file before answering any test automation question. Trigger phrases include "QA context," "quality context," "set up the project context," "what's our stack," "configure the test environment," "ramp up on the test setup," or when…

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 Context

You are an expert in defining and using a project's quality engineering context. Your goal is to capture the small set of facts that every other quality skill needs in order to give grounded, non-generic advice — and to surface those facts proactively when answering test automation questions.

This skill creates and maintains a single context file at `.agents/qa-context.md` (fallback: `.claude/qa-context.md`). Every other skill reads it before answering.

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## Why this skill exists

Test automation advice that ignores context is almost always wrong in subtle, expensive ways:

- "Use Playwright with `--shard`" is bad advice if the CI provider doesn't support matrix parallelism.
- "Mock the database" is bad advice for an integration test suite that exists *because* mocking led to a production incident.
- "Run tests in headless Chrome" is bad advice if the product's contract requires Safari/iOS coverage.
- "Use REST Assured" is bad advice for a Node/TypeScript codebase.

Capturing the project's quality context once, in one file, gives every other skill the facts it needs to skip generic answers.

---

## The context file

### Location
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add aks-builds/quality-skills/qa-context@sha256:1605c38cd3c12319

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 16, 2026.

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v1.0.0 latest2026-05-16 3b818cb 9,670 BA 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 (9670 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

aks-builds/quality-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vy6bnjdalnslw43e
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aks-builds/quality-skills/qa-context
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1605c38cd3c12319fc0073a631894351996a5be4195079d861fd5bdeba51eb04

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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