qa-engineer 0.9.1 → 0.10.0

package/skills/qa-api/SKILL.md

@@ -53,15 +53,15 @@ Do not use it to generate API tests (`/qa-generate`) or to run a suite (`/qa-run
 
 ## Tooling
 
-Invoke the bundled engine through its launcher, as documented in [references/deterministic-tooling.md](references/deterministic-tooling.md). `SKILL_DIR` below is this skill's own directory — `.agents/skills/qa-api` or `.claude/skills/qa-api`, whichever exists. The command shape is the same in bash, zsh, PowerShell, and cmd.exe; on Windows use `python` if `python3` is not on PATH.
+Invoke the bundled engine through its launcher, as documented in [references/deterministic-tooling.md](references/deterministic-tooling.md). `SKILL_DIR` below is this skill's own directory — `.agents/skills/qa-api` or `.claude/skills/qa-api`, whichever exists. The command shape is the same in bash, zsh, PowerShell, and cmd.exe, and it runs under the same Node that installed the pack — there is no second runtime to find.
 
 | Tool | Invocation | Output | Fallback |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| HAR analyzer | `python3 <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis har <file.har> [--slow-ms N]` | Redacted request/response summary, failures, slow calls | Assess the tests without traffic and say so |
-| Error classifier | `python3 <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis classify "<message>" --http-status <N>` | Taxonomy classification for a failing call | Classify from the REST/GraphQL modules and lower confidence |
-| Redaction | `python3 <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis redact <file>` | The file's text with credentials masked, before anything is quoted | Do not quote captured traffic at all |
+| HAR analyzer | `node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis har <file.har> [--slow-ms N]` | Redacted request/response summary, failures, slow calls | Assess the tests without traffic and say so |
+| Error classifier | `node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis classify "<message>" --http-status <N>` | Taxonomy classification for a failing call | Classify from the REST/GraphQL modules and lower confidence |
+| Redaction | `node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis redact <file>` | The file's text with credentials masked, before anything is quoted | Do not quote captured traffic at all |
 
-A missing `qa_tool.py` means the engine is not installed. Never paste raw captured traffic into a report — redaction is deterministic and must not be undone.
+A missing `qa-tool.mjs` means the engine is not installed. Never paste raw captured traffic into a report — redaction is deterministic and must not be undone.
 
 ## Output
 

package/skills/qa-api/references/deterministic-tooling.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ resolves its own location. There is nothing to set up and no shell features are
 involved:
 
 ```bash
-python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py <tool> <subcommand> [args]
+node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs <tool> <subcommand> [args]
 ```
 
 `<skill-dir>` is wherever the host installed this skill — usually
@@ -25,19 +25,21 @@ python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py <tool> <subcommand> [args]
 whichever exists.
 
 ```bash
-python3 .agents/skills/qa-run/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis junit test-results/results.xml
+node .agents/skills/qa-run/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis junit test-results/results.xml
 ```
 
-That line is identical in bash, zsh, PowerShell, and cmd.exe. **On Windows, use
-`python` if `python3` is not on PATH** — that is the only platform difference.
+That line is identical in bash, zsh, PowerShell, and cmd.exe, with no platform
+difference at all: it runs under the same Node the user already had to install the
+pack.
 
-An earlier version of this contract used a shell recipe
-(`QA_LIB="$(ls -d … | head -1)"` with a `PYTHONPATH=` prefix). It was POSIX-only,
-so on Windows every deterministic call failed, each skill fell back to its manual
-path, and the user silently got guesswork while believing the tooling had run.
-Never reintroduce a shell-dependent invocation.
+Two earlier versions of this contract failed the same way. The first was a shell
+recipe (`QA_LIB="$(ls -d … | head -1)"` with a `PYTHONPATH=` prefix), POSIX-only, so
+on Windows every deterministic call failed and each skill fell back to guesswork
+while appearing to have run its tooling. The second was portable but needed a Python
+interpreter the user never agreed to install. Never reintroduce a shell-dependent
+invocation, and never add a runtime the install did not already require.
 
-If `qa_tool.py` is missing, the engine is not installed: say so, recommend
+If `qa-tool.mjs` is missing, the engine is not installed: say so, recommend
 `qa repair`, use the skill's documented fallback, and mark the result degraded.
 
 Every tool writes JSON to stdout. Exit `0` means success; exit `1` means an
@@ -45,33 +47,35 @@ invalid contract; exit `2` means unreadable input, a malformed artifact, or a
 payload that failed its seam contract, and the JSON body carries `error` and
 `detail`. Treat a non-zero exit as missing evidence, never as a value to guess.
 
-Standard-library Python 3.8+ only — nothing to install.
+Dependency-free Node — nothing to install beyond the Node that ran `npx`.
 
-## 2. Analysis core — `qa_tool.py analysis`
+## 2. Analysis core — `qa-tool.mjs analysis`
 
 Framework-agnostic parsing, redaction, and validation.
 
 | Subcommand | Invocation | Returns |
 | --- | --- | --- |
-| `junit` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis junit <report.xml>` | `{tests: {...}, executed: [...]}` normalized counts and per-test outcomes |
-| `har` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis har <file.har> [--slow-ms N]` | Redacted request/response summary, failures, slow calls |
-| `discover` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis discover [--root DIR] [--path P]` | Artifacts found, by type, with presence flags |
-| `diff-guard` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis diff-guard <diff-file>` | `{issues: [...], safe: bool}` — `safe:false` blocks the change |
-| `redact` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis redact <file>` | The file's text with credentials masked |
-| `validate` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis validate <instance.json> <schema.json>` | `{valid: bool, errors: [...]}`; exit 1 when invalid |
-| `classify` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis classify "<error message>" [--http-status N]` | `{classification, confidence, reason}` from the shared taxonomy |
-| `context` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis context [--root DIR] [--path .qa/context.md]` | The parsed, schema-validated project context as JSON |
-
-## 3. Diagnostic engine — `qa_tool.py diagnostics`
+| `junit` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis junit <report.xml>` | `{tests: {...}, executed: [...]}` normalized counts and per-test outcomes |
+| `har` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis har <file.har> [--slow-ms N]` | Redacted request/response summary, failures, slow calls |
+| `discover` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis discover [--root DIR] [--path P]` | Artifacts found, by type, with presence flags |
+| `diff-guard` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis diff-guard <diff-file>` | `{issues: [...], safe: bool}` — `safe:false` blocks the change |
+| `redact` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis redact <file>` | The file's text with credentials masked |
+| `validate` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis validate <instance.json> <schema.json>` | `{valid: bool, errors: [...]}`; exit 1 when invalid |
+| `classify` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis classify "<error message>" [--http-status N]` | `{classification, confidence, reason}` from the shared taxonomy |
+| `context` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis context [--root DIR] [--path .qa/context.md]` | The parsed, schema-validated project context as JSON |
+| `report-html` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis report-html <result.json> [--out report.html]` | The result rendered as one self-contained HTML report — every required field, footer included. Run it instead of writing HTML |
+| `branding` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis branding --format markdown\|html\|text` | The exact attribution footer bytes for a **rendered** report (never for a JSON artifact) |
+
+## 3. Diagnostic engine — `qa-tool.mjs diagnostics`
 
 One engine, consumed by the diagnostic skills. Reasoning lives here once.
 
 | Subcommand | Invocation | Returns |
 | --- | --- | --- |
-| `diagnose` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py diagnostics diagnose --execution-result <path> [--analysis-result <path>]` | `{entries: [...], timeline: [...], recommendations: [...]}` |
-| `plan-repairs` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py diagnostics plan-repairs --diagnosis <path>` | `{plans: [...]}` — one plan per entry, escalations included |
-| `summarize` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py diagnostics summarize --execution-result <path> --diagnosis <path>` | `{totals, byClassification, topPriority, releaseReadiness}` |
-| `report` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py diagnostics report --execution-result <path> [--analysis-result <path>]` | `{diagnosis, plans, summary}` — all three in one call |
+| `diagnose` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs diagnostics diagnose --execution-result <path> [--analysis-result <path>]` | `{entries: [...], timeline: [...], recommendations: [...]}` |
+| `plan-repairs` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs diagnostics plan-repairs --diagnosis <path>` | `{plans: [...]}` — one plan per entry, escalations included |
+| `summarize` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs diagnostics summarize --execution-result <path> --diagnosis <path>` | `{totals, byClassification, topPriority, releaseReadiness}` |
+| `report` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs diagnostics report --execution-result <path> [--analysis-result <path>]` | `{diagnosis, plans, summary}` — all three in one call |
 
 **Inputs.** `--execution-result` takes a `qa-run` execution result, or the minimal
 subset (`tests` counts plus `executed[]` entries carrying `status`).
@@ -99,7 +103,7 @@ contract names:
 
 This mapping is not busywork: the strictness is what stops a skill from shipping a
 result whose shape nobody checked. Validate before completion —
-`python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis validate <result.json> <schema.json>` — and fix the
+`node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis validate <result.json> <schema.json>` — and fix the
 result, never the claim.
 
 ## 4. Framework adapters
@@ -109,11 +113,11 @@ a `--framework` flag.
 
 | Adapter | Invocation | Returns |
 | --- | --- | --- |
-| Playwright report | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py playwright report <results.json>` | The same `{tests, executed}` shape as `junit` |
-| Playwright trace | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py playwright trace <trace.zip>` | Actions, console/network counts, errors, classification |
+| Playwright report | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs playwright report <results.json>` | The same `{tests, executed}` shape as `junit` |
+| Playwright trace | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs playwright trace <trace.zip>` | Actions, console/network counts, errors, classification |
 
 For Selenium, Cypress, and WebdriverIO, normalize through
-`qa_tool.py analysis junit` — those adapters have no richer artifact than JUnit, and
+`qa-tool.mjs analysis junit` — those adapters have no richer artifact than JUnit, and
 the skill says so rather than implying trace-grade depth.
 
 ## 5. Reporting what ran

package/skills/qa-api/references/evidence-and-reporting.md

@@ -27,17 +27,42 @@ Any skill that reaches a conclusion — a detected fact, a chosen strategy, a cl
 | Confidence | Calibrated per rule 4; omitted rather than invented when the skill did not weigh alternatives |
 | Recommendations | The next action, named concretely — often the next command and the artifact to feed it |
 
+## Rendering the HTML report
+
+**Never type the HTML.** When a skill's result conforms to a contract the renderer
+supports, the HTML report is generated from that artifact:
+
+```bash
+node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis report-html <result.json> --out <report.html>
+```
+
+The reason is not tidiness. A hand-written report is a second, lossy copy of the
+artifact, and it loses exactly what the reader needs: the first live `/qa-explore`
+run wrote findings whose `actual`, `expected`, and `fixDirection` were all required,
+all present in the JSON, and all absent from the page — collapsed into one sentence
+that left the reader to guess what correct behaviour would have been. The renderer
+cannot make that mistake, because the fields are in its template.
+
+What the renderer guarantees per finding: severity, the defect, **what happens
+now**, **what should happen instead**, how to reproduce it, the fix direction, and
+every evidence entry — plus the attribution footer, in one self-contained file with
+no external assets.
+
+Run `qa-tool.mjs analysis report-html --help` for the supported contracts. For an
+artifact it does not support, write the HTML by hand from the contract's fields —
+and render **every** field a reader needs, in that order.
+
 ## Attribution on rendered reports
 
 A report a person opens carries a product attribution footer, the way a Lighthouse
 or Allure report does. It is rendered, never typed: the exact bytes come from the
 bundled analysis toolkit, so every report is identical and a wording change is a
-one-file edit.
+one-file edit. `report-html` already embeds it; for any other rendering, ask for it:
 
 ```bash
-PYTHONPATH="$QA_LIB" python3 -m qa_analysis.cli branding --format html
-PYTHONPATH="$QA_LIB" python3 -m qa_analysis.cli branding --format markdown
-PYTHONPATH="$QA_LIB" python3 -m qa_analysis.cli branding --format text
+node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis branding --format markdown
+node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis branding --format html
+node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis branding --format text
 ```
 
 Append the output as the last element of the rendered document: `html` inside

package/skills/qa-api/scripts/qa-tool.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+// synced-from: shared/tooling/qa-tool.mjs — do not edit; edit the source and run: node scripts/sync-shared.mjs --write
+// The launcher every skill invokes to reach the deterministic engine.
+//
+// A skill's SKILL.md documents exactly one command shape:
+//
+//     node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs <tool> <subcommand> [args]
+//
+// and this file finds the engine, wherever it happens to be. That indirection
+// exists because the pack is installed three different ways and the engine lands in
+// a different place each time:
+//
+//   1. `qa install` bundles the engine into the skill, at ./lib/. Offline, fastest,
+//      and pinned to the version that was installed.
+//   2. `npx skills add <owner>/<repo>` — or any generic file copier — copies the
+//      skill directory out of git and bundles nothing. The engine is then resolved
+//      from node_modules if the project happens to depend on the pack.
+//   3. Neither: fall back to `npx qa-engineer`, which fetches the published package
+//      on first use and is served from the npm cache afterwards.
+//
+// Because this file is committed rather than generated, path 2 works at all — which
+// is what makes the pack installable by the wider Agent Skills ecosystem. The
+// command a skill runs never changes; only where the engine came from does.
+//
+// Exit codes pass through unchanged: 0 success, 1 an invalid contract, 2 unreadable
+// input or bad usage.
+//
+// No shebang: the synced copies carry a provenance marker on line one, which would
+// sit above it and stop the kernel seeing it anyway. Every documented invocation is
+// `node qa-tool.mjs …`, which needs none.
+
+import fs from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+
+const here = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+
+const USAGE = `usage: node qa-tool.mjs <tool> <subcommand> [args]
+
+  analysis     parse artifacts, classify errors, validate contracts, diff-guard,
+               read .qa/context.md, render an HTML report, print the footer
+  diagnostics  root cause, timeline, priority, repair plans, release readiness
+  playwright   normalize a Playwright report or summarize a trace
+
+  --where      print how the engine was resolved, and stop
+
+examples:
+  node qa-tool.mjs analysis junit test-results/results.xml
+  node qa-tool.mjs analysis report-html qa-artifacts/explore-result.json --out report.html
+  node qa-tool.mjs diagnostics report --execution-result qa-artifacts/run.json
+`;
+
+/**
+ * Where the engine is, and how we found it.
+ *
+ * Ordered by cost: a bundled copy needs no resolution and no network, a
+ * node_modules copy needs no network, and npx needs both on first use. Reporting
+ * *which* one answered matters when a skill degrades — "the engine is missing" and
+ * "the engine is being fetched" are different problems.
+ */
+function resolveEngine() {
+  const bundled = path.join(here, 'lib', 'bin', 'qa-engine.mjs');
+  if (fs.existsSync(bundled)) return { kind: 'bundled', command: [process.execPath, bundled] };
+
+  for (const base of candidateModuleRoots()) {
+    const installed = path.join(base, 'qa-engineer', 'packages', 'engine', 'bin', 'qa-engine.mjs');
+    if (fs.existsSync(installed)) {
+      return { kind: 'node_modules', command: [process.execPath, installed] };
+    }
+  }
+
+  return {
+    kind: 'npx',
+    command: [npxCommand(), '--yes', 'qa-engineer', 'engine'],
+  };
+}
+
+/** node_modules directories worth checking, nearest first. */
+function candidateModuleRoots() {
+  const roots = [];
+  let dir = here;
+  for (let depth = 0; depth < 12; depth += 1) {
+    roots.push(path.join(dir, 'node_modules'));
+    const parent = path.dirname(dir);
+    if (parent === dir) break;
+    dir = parent;
+  }
+  if (process.cwd() !== here) roots.push(path.join(process.cwd(), 'node_modules'));
+  return roots;
+}
+
+// `npx` is a shell script on POSIX and a .cmd shim on Windows; spawnSync needs the
+// exact name, and `shell: true` would put user-supplied arguments through a shell.
+function npxCommand() {
+  return process.platform === 'win32' ? 'npx.cmd' : 'npx';
+}
+
+function main(argv) {
+  if (argv.length === 0 || argv[0] === '--help' || argv[0] === '-h') {
+    process.stdout.write(USAGE);
+    return argv.length === 0 ? 2 : 0;
+  }
+
+  const engine = resolveEngine();
+
+  if (argv[0] === '--where') {
+    process.stdout.write(`${JSON.stringify({ resolved: engine.kind, command: engine.command }, null, 2)}\n`);
+    return 0;
+  }
+
+  const [program, ...prefix] = engine.command;
+  const run = spawnSync(program, [...prefix, ...argv], { stdio: 'inherit' });
+
+  if (run.error) {
+    // Say which path was tried and what to do, because a skill's fallback prose
+    // cannot diagnose this and the user is the one who has to fix it.
+    const advice = engine.kind === 'npx'
+      ? 'the engine is not bundled and npx is unavailable — run `npx qa-engineer install` in this project, or install Node 18+'
+      : `could not execute ${program}`;
+    process.stderr.write(`qa-tool: ${advice}\n${run.error.message}\n`);
+    return 2;
+  }
+  return run.status ?? 2;
+}
+
+process.exitCode = main(process.argv.slice(2));

package/skills/qa-audit/SKILL.md

@@ -55,15 +55,15 @@ Do not use it to run functional tests (`/qa-run`) or review test code (`/qa-revi
 
 ## Tooling
 
-Invoke the bundled engine through its launcher, as documented in [references/deterministic-tooling.md](references/deterministic-tooling.md). `SKILL_DIR` below is this skill's own directory — `.agents/skills/qa-audit` or `.claude/skills/qa-audit`, whichever exists. The command shape is the same in bash, zsh, PowerShell, and cmd.exe; on Windows use `python` if `python3` is not on PATH.
+Invoke the bundled engine through its launcher, as documented in [references/deterministic-tooling.md](references/deterministic-tooling.md). `SKILL_DIR` below is this skill's own directory — `.agents/skills/qa-audit` or `.claude/skills/qa-audit`, whichever exists. The command shape is the same in bash, zsh, PowerShell, and cmd.exe, and it runs under the same Node that installed the pack — there is no second runtime to find.
 
 | Tool | Invocation | Output | Fallback |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| HAR analyzer | `python3 <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis har <file.har> [--slow-ms N]` | Redacted headers and timings for performance and security checks | Audit from other available signals and note the gap |
-| Artifact discovery | `python3 <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis discover --root <dir>` | Which audit inputs exist, by type, with presence flags | Ask for artifact paths rather than assuming any |
-| Redaction | `python3 <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis redact <file>` | The file's text with credentials masked, before anything is quoted | Do not quote captured headers at all |
+| HAR analyzer | `node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis har <file.har> [--slow-ms N]` | Redacted headers and timings for performance and security checks | Audit from other available signals and note the gap |
+| Artifact discovery | `node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis discover --root <dir>` | Which audit inputs exist, by type, with presence flags | Ask for artifact paths rather than assuming any |
+| Redaction | `node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis redact <file>` | The file's text with credentials masked, before anything is quoted | Do not quote captured headers at all |
 
-A missing `qa_tool.py` means the engine is not installed. Live in-page scans (axe, Lighthouse) run through the project's browser tooling and are consumed as evidence; findings from a scan that did not run are never inferred.
+A missing `qa-tool.mjs` means the engine is not installed. Live in-page scans (axe, Lighthouse) run through the project's browser tooling and are consumed as evidence; findings from a scan that did not run are never inferred.
 
 ## Output
 

package/skills/qa-audit/references/deterministic-tooling.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ resolves its own location. There is nothing to set up and no shell features are
 involved:
 
 ```bash
-python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py <tool> <subcommand> [args]
+node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs <tool> <subcommand> [args]
 ```
 
 `<skill-dir>` is wherever the host installed this skill — usually
@@ -25,19 +25,21 @@ python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py <tool> <subcommand> [args]
 whichever exists.
 
 ```bash
-python3 .agents/skills/qa-run/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis junit test-results/results.xml
+node .agents/skills/qa-run/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis junit test-results/results.xml
 ```
 
-That line is identical in bash, zsh, PowerShell, and cmd.exe. **On Windows, use
-`python` if `python3` is not on PATH** — that is the only platform difference.
+That line is identical in bash, zsh, PowerShell, and cmd.exe, with no platform
+difference at all: it runs under the same Node the user already had to install the
+pack.
 
-An earlier version of this contract used a shell recipe
-(`QA_LIB="$(ls -d … | head -1)"` with a `PYTHONPATH=` prefix). It was POSIX-only,
-so on Windows every deterministic call failed, each skill fell back to its manual
-path, and the user silently got guesswork while believing the tooling had run.
-Never reintroduce a shell-dependent invocation.
+Two earlier versions of this contract failed the same way. The first was a shell
+recipe (`QA_LIB="$(ls -d … | head -1)"` with a `PYTHONPATH=` prefix), POSIX-only, so
+on Windows every deterministic call failed and each skill fell back to guesswork
+while appearing to have run its tooling. The second was portable but needed a Python
+interpreter the user never agreed to install. Never reintroduce a shell-dependent
+invocation, and never add a runtime the install did not already require.
 
-If `qa_tool.py` is missing, the engine is not installed: say so, recommend
+If `qa-tool.mjs` is missing, the engine is not installed: say so, recommend
 `qa repair`, use the skill's documented fallback, and mark the result degraded.
 
 Every tool writes JSON to stdout. Exit `0` means success; exit `1` means an
@@ -45,33 +47,35 @@ invalid contract; exit `2` means unreadable input, a malformed artifact, or a
 payload that failed its seam contract, and the JSON body carries `error` and
 `detail`. Treat a non-zero exit as missing evidence, never as a value to guess.
 
-Standard-library Python 3.8+ only — nothing to install.
+Dependency-free Node — nothing to install beyond the Node that ran `npx`.
 
-## 2. Analysis core — `qa_tool.py analysis`
+## 2. Analysis core — `qa-tool.mjs analysis`
 
 Framework-agnostic parsing, redaction, and validation.
 
 | Subcommand | Invocation | Returns |
 | --- | --- | --- |
-| `junit` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis junit <report.xml>` | `{tests: {...}, executed: [...]}` normalized counts and per-test outcomes |
-| `har` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis har <file.har> [--slow-ms N]` | Redacted request/response summary, failures, slow calls |
-| `discover` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis discover [--root DIR] [--path P]` | Artifacts found, by type, with presence flags |
-| `diff-guard` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis diff-guard <diff-file>` | `{issues: [...], safe: bool}` — `safe:false` blocks the change |
-| `redact` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis redact <file>` | The file's text with credentials masked |
-| `validate` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis validate <instance.json> <schema.json>` | `{valid: bool, errors: [...]}`; exit 1 when invalid |
-| `classify` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis classify "<error message>" [--http-status N]` | `{classification, confidence, reason}` from the shared taxonomy |
-| `context` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis context [--root DIR] [--path .qa/context.md]` | The parsed, schema-validated project context as JSON |
-
-## 3. Diagnostic engine — `qa_tool.py diagnostics`
+| `junit` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis junit <report.xml>` | `{tests: {...}, executed: [...]}` normalized counts and per-test outcomes |
+| `har` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis har <file.har> [--slow-ms N]` | Redacted request/response summary, failures, slow calls |
+| `discover` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis discover [--root DIR] [--path P]` | Artifacts found, by type, with presence flags |
+| `diff-guard` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis diff-guard <diff-file>` | `{issues: [...], safe: bool}` — `safe:false` blocks the change |
+| `redact` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis redact <file>` | The file's text with credentials masked |
+| `validate` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis validate <instance.json> <schema.json>` | `{valid: bool, errors: [...]}`; exit 1 when invalid |
+| `classify` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis classify "<error message>" [--http-status N]` | `{classification, confidence, reason}` from the shared taxonomy |
+| `context` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis context [--root DIR] [--path .qa/context.md]` | The parsed, schema-validated project context as JSON |
+| `report-html` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis report-html <result.json> [--out report.html]` | The result rendered as one self-contained HTML report — every required field, footer included. Run it instead of writing HTML |
+| `branding` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis branding --format markdown\|html\|text` | The exact attribution footer bytes for a **rendered** report (never for a JSON artifact) |
+
+## 3. Diagnostic engine — `qa-tool.mjs diagnostics`
 
 One engine, consumed by the diagnostic skills. Reasoning lives here once.
 
 | Subcommand | Invocation | Returns |
 | --- | --- | --- |
-| `diagnose` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py diagnostics diagnose --execution-result <path> [--analysis-result <path>]` | `{entries: [...], timeline: [...], recommendations: [...]}` |
-| `plan-repairs` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py diagnostics plan-repairs --diagnosis <path>` | `{plans: [...]}` — one plan per entry, escalations included |
-| `summarize` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py diagnostics summarize --execution-result <path> --diagnosis <path>` | `{totals, byClassification, topPriority, releaseReadiness}` |
-| `report` | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py diagnostics report --execution-result <path> [--analysis-result <path>]` | `{diagnosis, plans, summary}` — all three in one call |
+| `diagnose` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs diagnostics diagnose --execution-result <path> [--analysis-result <path>]` | `{entries: [...], timeline: [...], recommendations: [...]}` |
+| `plan-repairs` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs diagnostics plan-repairs --diagnosis <path>` | `{plans: [...]}` — one plan per entry, escalations included |
+| `summarize` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs diagnostics summarize --execution-result <path> --diagnosis <path>` | `{totals, byClassification, topPriority, releaseReadiness}` |
+| `report` | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs diagnostics report --execution-result <path> [--analysis-result <path>]` | `{diagnosis, plans, summary}` — all three in one call |
 
 **Inputs.** `--execution-result` takes a `qa-run` execution result, or the minimal
 subset (`tests` counts plus `executed[]` entries carrying `status`).
@@ -99,7 +103,7 @@ contract names:
 
 This mapping is not busywork: the strictness is what stops a skill from shipping a
 result whose shape nobody checked. Validate before completion —
-`python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py analysis validate <result.json> <schema.json>` — and fix the
+`node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis validate <result.json> <schema.json>` — and fix the
 result, never the claim.
 
 ## 4. Framework adapters
@@ -109,11 +113,11 @@ a `--framework` flag.
 
 | Adapter | Invocation | Returns |
 | --- | --- | --- |
-| Playwright report | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py playwright report <results.json>` | The same `{tests, executed}` shape as `junit` |
-| Playwright trace | `python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/qa_tool.py playwright trace <trace.zip>` | Actions, console/network counts, errors, classification |
+| Playwright report | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs playwright report <results.json>` | The same `{tests, executed}` shape as `junit` |
+| Playwright trace | `node <skill-dir>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs playwright trace <trace.zip>` | Actions, console/network counts, errors, classification |
 
 For Selenium, Cypress, and WebdriverIO, normalize through
-`qa_tool.py analysis junit` — those adapters have no richer artifact than JUnit, and
+`qa-tool.mjs analysis junit` — those adapters have no richer artifact than JUnit, and
 the skill says so rather than implying trace-grade depth.
 
 ## 5. Reporting what ran

package/skills/qa-audit/references/evidence-and-reporting.md

@@ -27,17 +27,42 @@ Any skill that reaches a conclusion — a detected fact, a chosen strategy, a cl
 | Confidence | Calibrated per rule 4; omitted rather than invented when the skill did not weigh alternatives |
 | Recommendations | The next action, named concretely — often the next command and the artifact to feed it |
 
+## Rendering the HTML report
+
+**Never type the HTML.** When a skill's result conforms to a contract the renderer
+supports, the HTML report is generated from that artifact:
+
+```bash
+node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis report-html <result.json> --out <report.html>
+```
+
+The reason is not tidiness. A hand-written report is a second, lossy copy of the
+artifact, and it loses exactly what the reader needs: the first live `/qa-explore`
+run wrote findings whose `actual`, `expected`, and `fixDirection` were all required,
+all present in the JSON, and all absent from the page — collapsed into one sentence
+that left the reader to guess what correct behaviour would have been. The renderer
+cannot make that mistake, because the fields are in its template.
+
+What the renderer guarantees per finding: severity, the defect, **what happens
+now**, **what should happen instead**, how to reproduce it, the fix direction, and
+every evidence entry — plus the attribution footer, in one self-contained file with
+no external assets.
+
+Run `qa-tool.mjs analysis report-html --help` for the supported contracts. For an
+artifact it does not support, write the HTML by hand from the contract's fields —
+and render **every** field a reader needs, in that order.
+
 ## Attribution on rendered reports
 
 A report a person opens carries a product attribution footer, the way a Lighthouse
 or Allure report does. It is rendered, never typed: the exact bytes come from the
 bundled analysis toolkit, so every report is identical and a wording change is a
-one-file edit.
+one-file edit. `report-html` already embeds it; for any other rendering, ask for it:
 
 ```bash
-PYTHONPATH="$QA_LIB" python3 -m qa_analysis.cli branding --format html
-PYTHONPATH="$QA_LIB" python3 -m qa_analysis.cli branding --format markdown
-PYTHONPATH="$QA_LIB" python3 -m qa_analysis.cli branding --format text
+node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis branding --format markdown
+node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis branding --format html
+node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs analysis branding --format text
 ```
 
 Append the output as the last element of the rendered document: `html` inside

package/skills/qa-audit/scripts/qa-tool.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+// synced-from: shared/tooling/qa-tool.mjs — do not edit; edit the source and run: node scripts/sync-shared.mjs --write
+// The launcher every skill invokes to reach the deterministic engine.
+//
+// A skill's SKILL.md documents exactly one command shape:
+//
+//     node <SKILL_DIR>/scripts/qa-tool.mjs <tool> <subcommand> [args]
+//
+// and this file finds the engine, wherever it happens to be. That indirection
+// exists because the pack is installed three different ways and the engine lands in
+// a different place each time:
+//
+//   1. `qa install` bundles the engine into the skill, at ./lib/. Offline, fastest,
+//      and pinned to the version that was installed.
+//   2. `npx skills add <owner>/<repo>` — or any generic file copier — copies the
+//      skill directory out of git and bundles nothing. The engine is then resolved
+//      from node_modules if the project happens to depend on the pack.
+//   3. Neither: fall back to `npx qa-engineer`, which fetches the published package
+//      on first use and is served from the npm cache afterwards.
+//
+// Because this file is committed rather than generated, path 2 works at all — which
+// is what makes the pack installable by the wider Agent Skills ecosystem. The
+// command a skill runs never changes; only where the engine came from does.
+//
+// Exit codes pass through unchanged: 0 success, 1 an invalid contract, 2 unreadable
+// input or bad usage.
+//
+// No shebang: the synced copies carry a provenance marker on line one, which would
+// sit above it and stop the kernel seeing it anyway. Every documented invocation is
+// `node qa-tool.mjs …`, which needs none.
+
+import fs from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+
+const here = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+
+const USAGE = `usage: node qa-tool.mjs <tool> <subcommand> [args]
+
+  analysis     parse artifacts, classify errors, validate contracts, diff-guard,
+               read .qa/context.md, render an HTML report, print the footer
+  diagnostics  root cause, timeline, priority, repair plans, release readiness
+  playwright   normalize a Playwright report or summarize a trace
+
+  --where      print how the engine was resolved, and stop
+
+examples:
+  node qa-tool.mjs analysis junit test-results/results.xml
+  node qa-tool.mjs analysis report-html qa-artifacts/explore-result.json --out report.html
+  node qa-tool.mjs diagnostics report --execution-result qa-artifacts/run.json
+`;
+
+/**
+ * Where the engine is, and how we found it.
+ *
+ * Ordered by cost: a bundled copy needs no resolution and no network, a
+ * node_modules copy needs no network, and npx needs both on first use. Reporting
+ * *which* one answered matters when a skill degrades — "the engine is missing" and
+ * "the engine is being fetched" are different problems.
+ */
+function resolveEngine() {
+  const bundled = path.join(here, 'lib', 'bin', 'qa-engine.mjs');
+  if (fs.existsSync(bundled)) return { kind: 'bundled', command: [process.execPath, bundled] };
+
+  for (const base of candidateModuleRoots()) {
+    const installed = path.join(base, 'qa-engineer', 'packages', 'engine', 'bin', 'qa-engine.mjs');
+    if (fs.existsSync(installed)) {
+      return { kind: 'node_modules', command: [process.execPath, installed] };
+    }
+  }
+
+  return {
+    kind: 'npx',
+    command: [npxCommand(), '--yes', 'qa-engineer', 'engine'],
+  };
+}
+
+/** node_modules directories worth checking, nearest first. */
+function candidateModuleRoots() {
+  const roots = [];
+  let dir = here;
+  for (let depth = 0; depth < 12; depth += 1) {
+    roots.push(path.join(dir, 'node_modules'));
+    const parent = path.dirname(dir);
+    if (parent === dir) break;
+    dir = parent;
+  }
+  if (process.cwd() !== here) roots.push(path.join(process.cwd(), 'node_modules'));
+  return roots;
+}
+
+// `npx` is a shell script on POSIX and a .cmd shim on Windows; spawnSync needs the
+// exact name, and `shell: true` would put user-supplied arguments through a shell.
+function npxCommand() {
+  return process.platform === 'win32' ? 'npx.cmd' : 'npx';
+}
+
+function main(argv) {
+  if (argv.length === 0 || argv[0] === '--help' || argv[0] === '-h') {
+    process.stdout.write(USAGE);
+    return argv.length === 0 ? 2 : 0;
+  }
+
+  const engine = resolveEngine();
+
+  if (argv[0] === '--where') {
+    process.stdout.write(`${JSON.stringify({ resolved: engine.kind, command: engine.command }, null, 2)}\n`);
+    return 0;
+  }
+
+  const [program, ...prefix] = engine.command;
+  const run = spawnSync(program, [...prefix, ...argv], { stdio: 'inherit' });
+
+  if (run.error) {
+    // Say which path was tried and what to do, because a skill's fallback prose
+    // cannot diagnose this and the user is the one who has to fix it.
+    const advice = engine.kind === 'npx'
+      ? 'the engine is not bundled and npx is unavailable — run `npx qa-engineer install` in this project, or install Node 18+'
+      : `could not execute ${program}`;
+    process.stderr.write(`qa-tool: ${advice}\n${run.error.message}\n`);
+    return 2;
+  }
+  return run.status ?? 2;
+}
+
+process.exitCode = main(process.argv.slice(2));