qa-context-personas

name	qa-context-personas
description	Builds the context an AI needs to test an app well - product/area notes and user personas - and writes them into a reusable reference file. Use to turn a thin, generic AI run into a grounded one. Day 1 context live-build of the QA Foundational training.
argument-hint	[app area to build context for]

QA Context & Personas

Core principle: Context compounds. Garbage context, garbage tests. AI with no context guesses; AI with the right context tests like someone who knows the product. The lift comes from relevant context, not more context.

This skill builds two things into a reference file the other QA skills read:

1. Area context - what this part of the app does, what it is not, key terms, rules, conventions.
2. Personas - who uses it (and one anti-persona), reused later to rank risk by "who is hurt if this breaks."

Workflow

Pre-flight checks

Run these before starting any work:

# 1. Verify playwright-cli is installed
playwright-cli --version

# 2. Ensure playwright-cli skills are installed
playwright-cli install --skills

# 3. Session name — use -s=<output> for all playwright-cli calls this run
node -e "console.log('personas-' + Date.now())"

If playwright-cli is not found, install it by running these two commands separately (chaining with && can fail on Windows):

npm install -g @playwright/cli@latest
playwright-cli install --skills