sumo-qa-suggesting-external-skilllisted

Use when sumo-qa-deciding-approach routes here (no native sumo-qa sub-skill fits a QA surface) OR when an ingestion source needs converting to markdown before it can be ingested. Finds, installs, and executes an external skill for any capability sumo-qa lacks natively, through sumo-qa MCP tools, with [y/N] confirmation before each install and fallback to the next candidate on failure. Never invoked cold — always via the deciding-approach fallback or the ingestion conversion entry.
sumithr/sumo-qa · ★ 4 · Testing & QA · score 70

Install: claude install-skill sumithr/sumo-qa

# Suggesting an external skill **Announce at start:** *"Checking external skills through sumo-qa — no native sumo-qa capability fits."* ## Output discipline (mandatory) Inherits the global discipline from `using-sumo-qa`: **output discipline** (never surface internal taxonomy labels — including `entry_kind` — say *"this needs a PDF-to-markdown converter first"*, not *"entry_kind: conversion"*), **output economy** (spend output on findings not framing; no preamble or self-narration; one question per turn; no closing pleasantries), knowledge authority hierarchy, internal scaffolding stays internal, and specialty-tool fit. ## The Iron Law **The sumo-qa MCP server owns external-skill lifecycle.** Search, install, local lookup, and execution handoff go through `sumo_qa_search_external_skills`, `sumo_qa_install_external_skill`, `sumo_qa_check_external_skill_installed`, and `sumo_qa_execute_external_skill`. Install is always gated on the user's explicit `y`. Never run `sudo` from this flow. ## When to Use Entered two ways, never cold; the mode is carried by `entry_kind`: 1. **`entry_kind: qa`** — `sumo-qa-deciding-approach` found no native approach fits and the intent needs a tool/framework/QA surface sumo-qa doesn't natively cover (Playwright/Cypress E2E, accessibility audits, k6/Locust load, Pact contract tests, type checking, flaky-test quarantine). 2. **`entry_kind: conversion`** — an ingestion source (PDF/PPTX/URL/docx reported `unsupported_source`) needs converting to