Team QA Gauntlet — Pressure-Test Orchestrator

You are the Gauntlet Team Lead. Prefer specialist skills over pasting full ladder/oracle/forge text into one file. Authority for detailed procedures remains in the specialist SKILL.md files under .claude/skills/.

Not a substitute for /team-qa (human sprint QA package / manual UAT).

Team composition

Role / skill	Owns
/qa-gauntlet	Ladder Phase 0–E, batch driver, oracle gates, AAR handoff
/qa-gauntlet-ui	Game UI Smoke/Pressure: PlayMode+C2 filters, ReplayGolden, C2 signoffs ×5
/qa-gauntlet-combat-ui	Combat-presentation gates (Engage/Kill/CombatDomains). Not Slice B
/qa-gauntlet-mission-thread	T3+ concurrent mission-thread honesty (not vocabulary-only intent)
/qa-gauntlet-agentic-resilience	CRITICAL quarantine, retries, BLOCKED, never-LLM-override
/qa-gauntlet-forge	Variance, recipes, promote, Hindsight bank qa-gauntlet-forge
/qa-gauntlet-calibrate	Saboteur mutants, kill-rate matrix
/qa-gauntlet-stress	Orthogonal axes weapons / ew / logistics, proof gate
/qa-gauntlet-remediation	Phase D TDD; UCA gate on presentation Surfaces

Mode routing

--mode	Dispatch
full (default)	qa-gauntlet + required forge hooks + agentic-resilience on Phase D/AAR; mission-thread when Mission-type row is T3+; stress when claimed. Do not auto-run combat-ui or C2 ui
ladder	qa-gauntlet only
ui / ui-smoke	qa-gauntlet-ui only (do not rewrite or run ladder prose)
combat-ui	qa-gauntlet-combat-ui only — not Slice B, not C2 signoffs
mission-thread	qa-gauntlet-mission-thread only
agentic-resilience	qa-gauntlet-agentic-resilience only
forge	qa-gauntlet-forge phases only
calibrate	qa-gauntlet-calibrate
stress	qa-gauntlet-stress plan → derive → proof gate

--mode ui / ui-smoke (summary)

Hard package lives in /qa-gauntlet-ui — invoke that skill and follow it exactly:

1. RUN_DIR=production/qa/gauntlet/gauntlet-<timestamp>-ui/
2. Headless “118-style” UnityAdapter filter (PlayMode/C2/Presentation/Panel/…)
3. UiIa IA oracles (selection, COMMS, planning, PanelSettings) via /qa-gauntlet-ui
4. ReplayGolden filter
5. Unity Editor C2 Play Mode signoffs ×5
6. AAR + manifest.yaml
7. Any failure → /qa-gauntlet-remediation (+ UCA for presentation Surfaces)

Manual UAT → /team-qa (and /smoke-check). UI mode must not invent a second human QA loop.

--mode combat-ui

Invoke /qa-gauntlet-combat-ui. Headless Engage/Kill/CombatDomains filters only. Do not implement Combat UX Slice B (DRG-165–170). Do not run C2 Play Mode ×5.

--mode mission-thread

Invoke /qa-gauntlet-mission-thread against tier-N policies (T3+). Vocabulary-only thread claims are FAIL → remediation class scenario-data.

--mode agentic-resilience

Invoke /qa-gauntlet-agentic-resilience. Quarantine CRITICAL GitNexus; never let an LLM override Passed=false / hardGatesPass=false.

Slice A/B/C (coordinator)

Role	Slice A	Slice B	Slice C
mission-thread	Concurrent kill-chain lanes	Out	Out
agentic-resilience	Fail-closed agent contract	Out	Out
combat-ui	Replay/engage presentation gates	Out (DRG-165–170)	Out

Each specialist SKILL.md owns inputs, evidence paths, and entry/exit. This file only routes.

Parallel contract

Follow production/agentic/qa-skills-parallel-task-contract-2026-07-23.md:

• File-disjoint Tasks only; one-turn dispatch before waiting.
• Scenario generation (forge a0) may overlap tier N batch when write paths disjoint.
• Remediation: parallel only after GitNexus impact shows disjoint blast radii; serial merge to QA branch.
• UI mode: headless dotnet test and Editor signoff are serial on the same project (Unity lock); do not parallel two Unity Editor instances on one unity/ProjectAegis.

Hard invariants (team-wide)

• Locked eval: GauntletOracleEvaluator, Demo batch internals, ReplayGolden fixtures, .github/workflows/gauntlet-oracle.yml — never edit for "learning."
• DelegationBridge.cs zero-touch; Baltic v2 hash 17144800277401907079 preserved.
• Catalog IDs from roster/DB only; no CatalogWriteGate mutations without EXTEND-ONLY path.
• Graphite for branch/PR; GitNexus impact before every symbol edit; detect_changes() before commit.
• Script-first hard gates — LLM never overrides Passed=false / hardGatesPass=false.
• Machine-readable route table: tools/qa-gauntlet/specialist-routing.yaml (DRG-199). Informs later DRG-200 / DRG-201 — do not implement those tickets here.

Presentation defects → UCA

If a defect Surface is under UnityAdapter / presentation bridges / C2 chrome (including failures from --mode ui):

1. Invoke /qa-gauntlet-remediation (not ad-hoc fix).
2. That skill loads unity-csharp-architect + pr-finish (ADR-010/007/001).

See AGENTS.md Unity / C# architecture skill section.

Success

• Specialist skills invoked by name; no duplicate full ladder prose in this file.
• --mode ui ⇒ AAR under production/qa/gauntlet/<RUN_ID>/ per /qa-gauntlet-ui.
• --mode combat-ui ⇒ /qa-gauntlet-combat-ui (not Slice B).
• --mode full T3+ ⇒ /qa-gauntlet-mission-thread; Phase D ⇒ /qa-gauntlet-agentic-resilience.
• AAR cites latest calibrate report when forge/ladder ran.
• Stress claimed ⇒ qa-gauntlet-stress proof gate evidence attached.
• UI track never claims manual UAT complete.

See also

• /qa-gauntlet, /qa-gauntlet-ui, /qa-gauntlet-combat-ui
• /qa-gauntlet-mission-thread, /qa-gauntlet-agentic-resilience
• /qa-gauntlet-forge, /qa-gauntlet-calibrate
• /qa-gauntlet-stress, /qa-gauntlet-remediation
• /team-qa — human sprint package / manual UAT
• /smoke-check — sprint smoke hand-off
• tools/qa-gauntlet/README-stress-axes.md
• Reference UI run: production/qa/gauntlet/gauntlet-20260817-1626-ui/