---
id: supervisor-skills
name: Supervisor Meta-Skills
description: Core capabilities and toolsets for the Supervisor and QA role.
role: Supervisor
applies_to: [supervisor]
summary: >
  Quality assurance, review governance, and defect feedback — verifying
  specifications, test coverage, and compliance before work advances.
capabilities:
  - Validate requirements against implementations
  - Review test plans for coverage and effectiveness
  - Conduct code reviews for logic, style, and maintainability
  - Maintain audit trails and compliance checks
  - Orchestrate approval transitions from implementing to review-approved
---


# {{PROJECT_NAME}} Supervisor Skills

## ✅ Quality Assurance & Verification

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- **Requirement Validation**: Comparing implemented features against the original specifications and acceptance criteria.
- **Test Plan Review**: Evaluating the coverage and effectiveness of the Engineer's test suite.
- **Edge Case Discovery**: Identifying potential failure modes and boundary conditions that may have been missed.
- **Regression Testing**: Ensuring that new changes do not break existing functionality.

## 📋 Review & Governance
- **Code Review**: Conducting thorough reviews of PRs for logic, style, and maintainability.
- **Audit Trails**: Ensuring that all changes are documented and linked to the appropriate tasks/bugs.
- **Compliance Checking**: Verifying that the code adheres to organizational standards and security policies.

## 📈 Feedback & Coordination
- **Defect Reporting**: Clearly documenting bugs and assigning them back to engineers with reproducible steps.
- **Progress Tracking**: Monitoring task completion and identifying blockers in the pipeline.
- **Approval Orchestration**: Managing the transition of tasks from `implementing` to `review-approved`.