Show HN: QUALITY.md – open format/specification, agent skill, and CLI
Hello all, I created QUALITY.md to help build a holistic quality evaluation process for my projects. Turns out it's also ideal for loop engineering. I'm hoping this provides a valuable contribution to the conversation around quality and craft and having AI help us in the effort. I hope to shift the mindset from a reactive/review/repair mindset to a proactive care mindset. Give it a go. I look forward to your thoughts/comments/feedback! Website: https://getquality.md GitHub: https://github.com/qualitymd/quality.md
Discussion Highlights (7 comments)
dofm
The one thing I do not understand is that here you say: "Ensure stakeholders are aligned on what matters most and why" But it is instructions for LLMs, right? A way to describe something that the humans know and the LLMs don't. LLMs literally cannot be stakeholders, by definition.
MisterKent
Is this really where we've landed? I refuse to believe that any of this markdown insanity will continue indefinitely.
athrowaway3z
Whats the revenue model for this NBPaaS? (No Bugs Please As A Service)
bironran
This is perfectly encapsulated in xkcd's "Standards" strip [ https://xkcd.com/927/ ].
hiAndrewQuinn
I'm less interested in this than in what people are willing to aggressively trade off against in order to get the stuff they truly care about. For example, readability. Where are the developers out there saying "I am very willing to sacrifice a lot of readability to get even a small improvement on e.g. abstraction cleanliness", and sticking with it? Or "performance can take a huge hit at the cost of being dead easy to read and reason about". Coming up with a list of abstractly good-sounding qualities is just prosocial signaling without knowing what you're willing to sacrifice. There should be a FUCKIT.md that enumerates these.
Leewen
Useful Nice
LiamPowell
Here's the question I ask about every project that claims to make a LLMs output so much better: If it works so well then why would the model provider not just put it in the system prompt? Or in the case of interactive skills, why would Claude Code/Codex not make it a core part of the product? On top of that, if your magic markdown file really does work then where's the evidence showing that? These projects never include even basic benchmarks. At best they're entirely vibe based, however more often they're completely untested. Give us a proper benchmark, even a single prompt and it's output with and without your skill in use would be better than every other project out there.