Engineer loops to improve project quality, aligning your team and agents on what quality means for what matters most.
QUALITY.md is anopen file formatfor declaring a project quality model: a holistic rubric of the desired quality characteristics (security, maintainability, code quality, test/spec quality, etc.), their quality requirements (guides, sensors, principles, standards, rules, specs), and the context (mission/purpose, user/stakeholder needs, risks, etc.) for why they matter.
The QUALITY.md formatspecificationis designed to be agent, tool, and vendor agnostic. The companion /qualityagent skilland qualitymdCLIserve as both a reference implementation and starter kit for working with
QUALITY.md files, including the ability to create a comprehensivequality evaluation reportwith prioritizedimprovement recommendationsready for handoff or further review, useful for engineering quality loops or
augmenting your existing workflow.
Maintaining the quality of a thing is caring for it. When a thing exists for the benefit of another, caring for it well is caring for the other well.
The aim of QUALITY.md is to help others care well by making the practice of maintenance accessible to humans and agents.