quality-runner 0.2.0

Standalone audit-and-plan quality orchestrator with CLI and MCP surfaces.

Quality Runner

Quality Runner is a local-first audit-and-plan quality orchestrator for code repositories.

It inspects a target repo, compiles standards, detects available quality gates, normalizes evidence-backed findings, writes .quality-runner/ artifacts, and produces an ordered remediation plan. Version 1 does not edit source files, install dependencies, create commits, call remote services, or execute remediation.

Why this exists

Agentic coding workflows need a reliable way to separate evidence from opinion. Quality Runner turns repository facts, local standards, and available quality gates into versioned artifacts that another agent or human maintainer can review before approving implementation work.

Architecture

The pipeline is intentionally small: repository discovery compiles facts and quality-command evidence, standards compilation applies a profile, capability detection identifies available and missing gates, audit generation normalizes findings, and remediation planning writes an agent handoff.

See Backend Platform Case Study for the design narrative, self-audit improvements, and release-readiness proof.

Install

From PyPI after the package has been published:

uv tool install quality-runner

Until then, install from the public repository:

uv tool install git+https://github.com/jakyeamos/quality-runner.git

For local development:

git clone https://github.com/jakyeamos/quality-runner.git
cd quality-runner
uv tool install --editable . --force

Verify the installed commands:

quality-runner --version
quality-runner-mcp --version
quality-runner doctor --json

Quickstart

Run a full audit-and-plan pass against a repository:

quality-runner run /path/to/repo --run-id baseline-001 --json

Quality Runner writes artifacts under the target repo:

/path/to/repo/.quality-runner/runs/baseline-001/
  repo-scan.json
  code-quality-scan.json
  standards.json
  capability-matrix.json
  run-manifest.json
  quality-audit.json
  remediation-plan.json
  resolution-ledger.json
  resolution-ledger.md
  agent-handoff.json
  agent-handoff.md

The normal workflow is:

1. Read agent-handoff.md.
2. Review quality-audit.json for evidence-backed findings.
3. Review code-quality-scan.json for structural warnings and line evidence.
4. Review remediation-plan.json for ordered actions and verification gates.
5. Give an approved remediation slice to a coding agent.
6. Rerun Quality Runner to confirm findings clear and update the resolution ledger.

Commands

quality-runner doctor
quality-runner init /path/to/repo --json
quality-runner status /path/to/repo --json
quality-runner inspect /path/to/repo --json
quality-runner run /path/to/repo --json
quality-runner export-handoff /path/to/repo
quality-runner-mcp

See CLI Reference for command details.

MCP

The MCP server exposes:

• quality_runner_doctor
• quality_runner_inspect_repo
• quality_runner_run
• quality_runner_status
• quality_runner_export_handoff

See MCP Integration for JSON-RPC examples and tool payloads.

Artifacts

Quality Runner writes versioned JSON and Markdown artifacts. See Artifact Contract for the current v1 artifact set and field-level guarantees.

Standards Profiles

The built-in profile is default. Repos can also save custom profiles in .quality-runner.toml:

quality-runner init /path/to/repo --json

[quality_runner]
default_profile = "team"

[quality_runner.profiles.team]
extends = "default"
required_capabilities = ["lint", "typecheck", "tests", "dead_code"]
allowed_package_managers = ["pnpm", "bun"]

After saving the config, the custom profile is selected automatically by default_profile, or explicitly with:

quality-runner run /path/to/repo --profile team --json

See Standards Profiles for the full profile and repo-policy reference.

Scan Exclusions

Discovery skips fixture corpora, docs, vendored trees, generated corpora, and tool output directories by default so embedded samples are not reported as product workspaces. Add repo-specific exclusions in .quality-runner.toml:

[quality_runner]
scan_exclusions = ["samples", "generated-reports/**"]

v1 Safety Boundary

Quality Runner v1 may create or update files under .quality-runner/runs/<run-id>/ in the target repository. It must not edit source files, install dependencies, create commits, call remote services, or execute remediation.

Every generated remediation slice includes verification guidance, but a separate coding agent must receive user approval before implementation.

Development

Run the full local ladder:

python3.14 -m pytest -q
ruff check .
ruff format --check .
basedpyright
vulture . --min-confidence 70
uv run --with pytest pytest -q
python3.14 scripts/run_pytest_with_lcov.py
pre-cr run --workspace . --json  # changed-line readiness; expects changed files

See Troubleshooting for common install and runtime issues.

See Release Checklist for PyPI and Homebrew packaging notes.