IA-QA — 152 QA & Dev Tools for AI Agents

Query the IA-QA methodology knowledge base. Returns structured testing guidelines, assertion strategies, thresholds, best practices, and relevant MCP tools for a given topic. Call without a topic to list all available topics. Topics: llm-unit-testing, rag-pipeline, prompt-stab...

Search available MCP tools by keyword or category before calling them. Returns names, descriptions and, on request, inputSchemas. Queries are logged 90 days, screened for credentials and personal data. Categories: data, dev, encoding, eval, integrations, llm, meta, qa, rag, se...

Generate a set of test cases (valid, edge, invalid, pairwise) for a given feature description. Declared constraints drive the boundaries: a length or numeric bound ("[8-64]", "min 8 chars", "at least 8 characters" — read from inputs, and from the feature prose when a sentence...

Turn a Jira ticket into a test suite: Gherkin scenarios, E2E steps, API tests, test data and the ambiguities to clarify. Pass the issue object, or Jira credentials to fetch it. It never invents: a thin ticket returns an empty suite with verdict INCOMPLETE_SPEC and the question...

Pattern-based diff linter: flags a fixed set of risky shapes in changed code — query-string interpolation (SQL/Cypher/Mongo injection shape), shell interpolation, eval/new Function, empty catch blocks, regex built from a variable, fewer catch blocks than before, and named auth...

Review triage for a pull request. Takes a unified git diff (`git diff HEAD`) and returns: diff-lint findings with the lines that produced them, regression impact areas, a risk score 0–100 with the factors that built it (churn, files touched, sensitive paths, whether any test f...

Diff a baseline page mapping against a current one and return a CI-style verdict: PASS / FIX / BLOCK, plus per-element drift (ok, renamed, healable, ambiguous, lost, added, rebound). Pure and deterministic — provide two mappings as JSON with "elements" arrays of {role, name, s...

Get a ready-made selector-drift test case with a known-correct answer, for testing this MCP server or an agent workflow end to end. Each scenario is a real DOM capture of a deliberately breakable app, taken before and after one specific UI change (a renamed label, two swapped...

Scan user input or prompts for prompt injection patterns. Pattern-based: it recognises known phrasings and structures, not intent — an uncovered paraphrase or language reads clean, so clean is not proof of safety. Instruction overrides are covered in 11 languages (EN, FR, ES,...

Lexical hallucination check: verifies an LLM answer's words, numbers and polarity against the provided source/context. Fast, deterministic, no API key needed. Each answer sentence is aligned to its best-matching source sentence, so a number only counts as support when it sits...

Run an IA-EVAL test suite (.ia-eval.yaml contract): call the model per scenario; return passed (true, false, null if undecided) and a verdict (PASS, FAIL, PARTIAL). Expectations are assertions that fail a scenario whatever its score; evaluators give the score. Hosted: pass inl...

Test an LLM response against a set of guardrail rules: must-include, must-not-include, max length, required format, language, forbidden patterns, and custom regex. Returns pass/fail per rule.

Semantic assertion primitive: compare actual vs expected text pairs using cosine similarity + ROUGE-L. Two modes: tfidf (default, free, no API key) or embeddings (OpenAI text-embedding-3-small, BYOK, true semantic similarity). Returns per-case PASS/FAIL verdicts and an overall...

Generate a ready-to-commit GitHub Actions workflow that gates a build on IA-QA: "eval_contract" runs a .ia-eval.yaml through ia-qa-com/eval-action@v1 (needs a provider key as a repo secret), "cli_checks" runs deterministic tools via npx @ia-qa/cli and fails the build on their...

Automatically detect and redact Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from text. Replaces emails, phone numbers, SSNs, IBANs, credit cards, IP addresses, and JWT tokens with [REDACTED_TYPE] placeholders. Safe to use before logging or sending to an LLM.

Scan text or code for leaked secrets: API keys (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Twilio, SendGrid, HuggingFace), Slack / Teams / Discord webhook URLs, private keys, JWTs, database connection strings, Bearer and Basic auth headers, and hard-cod...

Generate a "needle in a haystack" test: embeds a target fact into a large block of filler text at a specified position. Use this to test LLM context window retrieval accuracy. Returns the full haystack, the question to ask, and metadata. No API key needed.

Discover .ia-eval.yaml LLM test suite files in the project directory. Scans CWD and standard sub-directories (evals/, tests/, contracts/). Returns file paths ready to pass to run_eval_contract.

Convert a run_eval_contract() LLM Test Runner JSON result into a fully self-contained dark-themed HTML report with Pass/Fail badges, side-by-side Input/Output/Ground-Truth panels, evaluator score bars, and a radar chart. Returns the HTML as a string.

Generate a complete .ia-eval.yaml evaluation contract from a plain-language description of what your LLM should do. Uses Groq openai/gpt-oss-20b (server-side, no API key needed). Returns ready-to-run YAML for the LLM Test Runner (run_eval_contract). Picks appropriate evaluator...

Run declarative assertions on an agent trace (OpenAI tool calls, Anthropic tool_use, LangChain run trees, ReAct logs). Deterministic, no LLM. Assertions: order (tool A before B), must_call, must_not_call, max/min calls, no_error, recovery (a successful step after the last erro...

Reference-free stability check: does an assistant's answer stay the same when the QUESTION is transformed (case, typo, paraphrase, reorder, translation)? You bring the outputs; no model is called (tfidf mode is deterministic and free). Default thresholds: case .95, typo .90, p...

Test a SKILL.md (Agent Skills format). (1) lint: the spec's frontmatter rules, no model — an error returns BLOCK; gate on lint.valid. (2) triggering: a model sees only the names + descriptions of this skill and its neighbours and picks which to load (temperature 0); trigger_ac...

Compute a unified line-by-line diff between two text strings (LCS algorithm). Returns added/removed/unchanged line counts and formatted diff hunks with configurable context lines (0–20). Use to compare versions of prompts, configs, code snippets, or any text where you need to...

Validate that an MCP tool response conforms to expected format, schema, and content rules. Use this to QA-test any MCP server tool. Supply the tool's actual JSON result and a set of checks to perform.

Validate an LLM response against QA criteria: format checks (JSON, code, markdown), content rules (must-include, must-not-include), length constraints, language detection, and safety patterns. Essential for QA testing LLM-powered features.

Compare two ALREADY-PRODUCED outputs (e.g. model A vs model B on the same task) side by side. Returns deterministic metrics (token cosine, ROUGE-L, Jaccard, length/structure deltas, JSON diff) and a verdict. If a `reference` (ground truth) is given, scores each output against...

Semantically analyze N already-produced model outputs for the SAME task (the MCP counterpart to the LLM Sandbox). Without a reference: computes consensus — pairwise cosine agreement, the most-representative output, and the outlier. With a `reference` (ground truth): also ranks...

Define a test suite for a prompt: provide the system prompt, user prompt, and expected output criteria. Returns a test plan with scored rubric — use this as input for manual or automated LLM evaluation.

Check an MCP server's tool definitions without contacting it — for a server not deployed yet, a stdio server, or a CI gate. Paste the answer to tools/list (raw JSON-RPC or its result), a bare array of tools, one tool definition, or a manifest carrying name/description; input_s...

Check that a live MCP server over Streamable HTTP speaks the protocol, 2026-07-28 or earlier: handshake or server/discover, tools/list and its definitions, error codes, one tools/call, structuredContent against outputSchema, latency. Returns PASS/FIX/BLOCK with a 0-100 score,...

Validate that an LLM output matches an expected format: JSON, Markdown, code block, bullet list, numbered list, table, YAML, XML, or custom regex. Essential for structured output testing.

Compare multiple LLM responses to the same prompt and detect inconsistencies using Jaccard word-overlap similarity and fact drift (number comparison). Fast, deterministic, no API key needed. Limitations: relies on surface-level word matching — "Paris is the capital of France"...

Validate that an LLM JSON output matches a JSON Schema definition. Tests required fields, types, enums, nested objects, and arrays. Critical for function-calling and structured output testing.

Score an LLM response against the criteria you pass: coverage of expected_keywords and compliance with max_length. Returns a 0-100 score over the criteria actually measured — or total_score null with the reason when none is given, because relevance and correctness cannot be re...

Scan text for toxic language, hate speech, bias/stereotype framing, violence, sexual and self-harm content. Lexical + structural pattern matching (identity term + predicate), not a semantic classifier — returns per-category risk plus the named rules that fired, so every findin...

Validate an LLM function call / tool_use output: check that function name is in allowed list, arguments match expected schema (types, enums, ranges), no extra/missing args. Reads the definitions as OpenAI (`parameters`), MCP (`inputSchema`) or Anthropic (`input_schema`) write...

Analyze a multi-turn conversation for context retention, topic drift, instruction following, and repetition. Accepts messages array [{role, content}]. Essential for chatbot QA.

Lint one MCP tool definition with the same rules as mcp_server_health_check: errors break the MCP spec (FAIL), documentation_issues are what its strict mode refuses — a parameter without description or type (FIX, never an A) — and suggestions are style only (snake_case) and ch...

Analyze a Chain-of-Thought (CoT) or reasoning trace from an LLM. Detects step count, logical flow, conclusion presence, backtracking, and estimates reasoning depth. Useful for o1/o3/DeepSeek-R1 evaluation.

Generate an A/B test report comparing two prompts or model configurations. Accepts arrays of scores and returns mean, median, std deviation, improvement percentage, and a Welch t-test at 95 %: `winner` names a variant only when the difference is significant — otherwise "no_sig...

Compute text similarity between reference and hypothesis using multiple metrics: Cosine (BoW, TF-IDF), Jaccard, ROUGE-1, ROUGE-2, ROUGE-L, and BLEU. No API key needed. Ideal for LLM eval (expected vs actual), RAG quality checks, and NLG benchmarking. Supports batch mode.

Analyse a set of LLM responses generated from the same prompt template but with different demographic variants (gender, origin, age, tone). Returns a bias score (0-100), sentiment analysis per variant, pairwise Jaccard similarity, and a human-readable verdict. No API key neede...

Test a vision model (OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini) on one image: each test case asks a question and asserts on the answer (contains, not_contains, json_format, min_length, max_length, semantic_contains = TF-IDF cosine ≥ 0.4). Returns per-case PASS/FAIL, the pass rate, an overal...

Multimodal evaluation: action=guide (default) interprets a CLIP/FID/VQA score against reference thresholds; clip_score, fid_score, vqa_accuracy compute the metric (HuggingFace, or your VLM key for VQA); pipeline runs all three.

Compare several vision models on the same image and test cases, in parallel (same assertions as run_vlm_test_suite). Returns per-model PASS/FAIL, pass rates, latency and a comparison table. BYOK: one key per model.

One-call safety gate for an LLM response: grounding (with source), prompt injection on the response AND the prompt (checks.injection / checks.injection_prompt), toxicity, PII, guardrail rules, quality, plus an LLM review on Groq (server key; model "none" skips it and sends not...

Analyse the HTTP security headers of a public URL OR of raw response headers you paste in. Grades each header (A–F) for: Strict-Transport-Security, Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, X-XSS-Protection, Cross-Or...

Analyse the SSL/TLS certificate of any HTTPS host. Returns certificate subject, issuer, validity dates, days until expiry, protocol version, cipher suite, key exchange info, and an overall grade (A+, A, B, C, F). Detects expired, self-signed, and weak certificates. Use this to...

Audit a URL for CORS misconfigurations across several origins: wildcard with credentials, reflected origin, null origin, subdomain bypass, missing Vary. Returns risk level (safe/low/medium/high/critical) plus per-origin results. "unknown" means nothing was tested: every origin...

Would a browser on this origin be allowed to read this URL? Verdict allowed | blocked | unknown, the reason, and the header to add. Only GET and HEAD are really sent: other methods measure the preflight alone. To audit many origins use cors_test.

Audit the security attributes of cookies set by any URL. Fetches the URL and inspects all Set-Cookie headers for: HttpOnly, Secure, SameSite, Domain scope, Path scope, Max-Age/Expires, __Host-/__Secure- prefixes. Flags insecure patterns: missing HttpOnly on session cookies, mi...

Run a comprehensive web security audit combining headers, SSL, CORS, and cookies checks — then use an LLM to produce a prioritised remediation plan. Orchestrates security_headers_check + ssl_certificate_check + cors_test + cookie_security_audit in parallel, merges all findings...

Compute text similarity using local algorithms (Bag of Words, TF-IDF, Character N-grams). No API key needed — runs entirely in-process. NOT real embeddings: for true semantic similarity with vector embeddings, use run_semantic_tests with mode="embeddings" and your OpenAI API k...

Rank an array of text chunks by relevance to a query using TF-IDF scoring. Simulates retrieval ranking for RAG testing without needing embeddings or an API.

Compute similarity/distance between two float vectors: cosine similarity, dot product, Euclidean and Manhattan distance. Essential for vector DB relevance scoring, embedding evaluation, and nearest-neighbor testing.

L2-normalize a float vector (produce a unit vector with norm=1). Required by many vector DBs (Pinecone, Qdrant cosine). Supports batch normalization of up to 1000 vectors.

Simulate int8 or int4 quantization of float32 embedding vectors. Reduces storage by 4x (int8) or 8x (int4). Returns quantized values, scale factor, and precision loss (MSE). Useful for understanding vector DB compression trade-offs.

Compute statistics for a float vector or matrix of vectors: mean, std, L2 norm, min, max, sparsity, top-K indices. Useful for debugging embedding quality and analyzing vector distributions in a vector DB.

Compute BM25 relevance score between a query and one or more documents. BM25 is the industry-standard keyword-based ranking algorithm used in Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, and Weaviate hybrid search. Returns ranked results with normalized scores.

Assemble a complete RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) prompt from retrieved context chunks and a user query. Handles token budgeting, citation numbering, system instruction injection, and source attribution.

Fill a prompt template with variables. Supports {{variable}} syntax and {{#if key}}...{{/if}} conditional blocks. Returns the filled prompt and lists unfilled variables.

Format few-shot examples for LLM prompts. Converts example pairs into formatted blocks. Supports chat format (User/Assistant), XML tags, Markdown, or plain text.

Build a structured system prompt from components: role, task, constraints, output format, tone, language, and examples. Generates a production-ready system prompt with token estimate.

Evaluate RAG retrieval: rank passages against a query, compute Precision@k / Recall@k and a PASS/FAIL verdict from your relevance labels. Modes: (1) give every passage the `score` YOUR reranker produced — deterministic, offline, the mode to gate CI on; (2) no scores, no key —...

Estimate the token count of a text string using the cl100k_base approximation (~4 chars/token). Call this BEFORE sending any text to an LLM API to check if it fits within the model context window and to estimate cost. Returns token estimate, character count, and word count.

Truncate text to at most N tokens (cl100k_base: ~4 chars/token) to avoid exceeding an LLM context window. Optionally keeps the end of the text instead of the start (useful for keeping recent conversation history). Reports whether truncation occurred and the estimated token count.

Split text into chunks of at most N tokens (cl100k_base: ~4 chars/token) with optional overlap. Designed for RAG ingestion pipelines.

Extract the first valid JSON object or array embedded in chaotic LLM output (surrounded by markdown fences, prose, or explanatory text). Handles ```json blocks and inline JSON. Call this whenever an LLM returns structured data mixed with explanation text instead of raw JSON.

Estimate the API cost in USD for a given model and token counts, at the price read daily from the provider's own pricing page (prices_as_of, price_status). Any model from list_llm_models.

Plan token allocation across system prompt, user input, context/RAG chunks, and expected output. Warns if budget exceeds the model's context window (any model from list_llm_models).

Given an array of message objects [{role, content}], estimate total token usage and check if it fits in the target model's context window. Warns about truncation risk.

Get detailed specs for an AI model: context window, pricing per 1K tokens, knowledge cutoff, provider, multimodal support, reasoning capabilities, and feature list. Covers 30+ models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Meta, Mistral, Cohere, xAI.

Put 2-5 AI models side by side: price per 1k tokens, context window, multimodal, reasoning, provider, pricing page. Facts only: names the cheapest and the largest context, never a "best model" — run your cases on each to choose.

List all LLM models available on ia-qa.com with their provider, API endpoint, and capabilities. Filter by provider name (e.g. "Groq", "HuggingFace", "OpenAI") or return the full catalog. Use this to discover which models are available before calling an LLM API, or to compare p...

Generate text with an open-source model hosted on Groq, on the server's key — no API key needed. Models: openai/gpt-oss-20b, openai/gpt-oss-120b, qwen/qwen3.8-27b (default "openai/gpt-oss-20b"). HuggingFace models are not served on the server key. A reasoning model that spends...

Compress an LLM prompt by removing filler words, verbose phrases, duplicate sentences, and unnecessary whitespace. Returns optimized text with token savings breakdown. 100% deterministic, no API key needed.

Shortlist LLMs on facts, no ranking: cloud models with the features you need within a monthly budget, cheapest first; or local models that fit your VRAM, largest first, with the ollama command. To pick one, run your cases on the shortlist (prompt_test_suite, run_eval_contract).

Post the output of jira_to_test_suite as a formatted comment on the source Jira ticket. Converts Gherkin, E2E steps, API tests, and ambiguities into Atlassian Document Format (ADF). STATEFUL — creates a comment on the issue.

Create a new Confluence page from the output of jira_to_test_suite. Formats Gherkin, E2E steps, API tests, and test data as a properly structured Confluence page with code blocks and tables. STATEFUL — creates a new page in the specified space.