QUALITY.md is an open file format for declaring a project quality model, including quality characteristics, requirements, and context.
It aims to align stakeholders on what matters most, identify impactful improvements, and build agentic control loops for continuous quality maintenance.
The format is agent, tool, and vendor agnostic, with companion tools like /quality agent skill and qualitymd CLI for evaluation and reporting.
Key benefits include proactive quality management, tackling technical debt, and compounding learning at high leverage points.
Usage involves setup, evaluation, and improvement phases to engineer quality loops, with the philosophy of caring for a thing to benefit others.