QUALITY.md
open format/specification, agent skill, and CLI
Details
- External ID
- 48763963
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- QUALITY.md
- Website domain
- getquality.md
- Launched
- July 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 29
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7789725209080047
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent frameworks and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- open format and agent skill for quality
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes QUALITY.md is a markdown specification and standard CLI tool that evaluates codebase quality against defined criteria using LLM prompting and basic file parsing.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md files, Claude Code / Codex, Model provider system prompts, SaaS quality evaluation products
Concerns raised: No benchmarks or empirical evidence provided, Claude already refuses to read markdown files without explicit prompting, Adding more prompting instructions isn't a real fix for AI errors, Just prosocial signaling without knowing actual trade-offs, Proliferation of standards without clear winner (xkcd problem)
Feature requests: FUCKIT.md file documenting explicit trade-offs being made, Better integration/reporting capabilities beyond basic CLI, Improved handling of Claude reading QUALITY.md automatically
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 48 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #7 of 49 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 240 days after the earliest competitor.
- LucidShark · hn · 2026-03-18 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- CodeLeash: framework for quality agent development, NOT an orchestrator · hn · 2026-02-27 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- code-quality · github · 2026-09-21 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- AI Code Review CLI · hn · 2026-03-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality · hn · 2026-06-08 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- SKILL.md Hub · hn · 2026-01-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- OQP · hn · 2026-04-13 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Generate SKILL.md files from URLs, in the browser · hn · 2026-05-04 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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- No other launches for this product.
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