Show HN: QUALITY.md – open format/specification, agent skill, and CLI
QUALITY.md is an open format/specification, agent skill, and CLI tool designed to establish a holistic quality evaluation process for software projects. It aims to shift the approach from reactive review and repair to proactive quality care, and is positioned as useful for loop engineering workflows.
Background
- QUALITY.md is an open-source spec and CLI tool that defines a Markdown format for tracking software quality across dimensions like performance, accessibility, security, and maintainability. It is designed for both humans and AI agents to read and act on.
- It sits at the intersection of "quality-as-code" (formalizing quality checks the way infrastructure-as-code formalized deployments) and "agentic AI" (LLM agents that autonomously read specs and execute tasks). The creator frames it as useful for "loop engineering" — iterative AI cycles of build, measure, and refine.
- The project aims to shift from a reactive "break-fix" mindset (find bugs, patch them) to "proactive care" — defining quality criteria upfront so issues are prevented.
- "Show HN" is a Hacker News category where developers present new projects. The audience would recognize QUALITY.md as aspiring to become a conventional repo file like CODEOWNERS or CONTRIBUTING.md.