openspec

A workflow for proposing, exploring, implementing, validating, and archiving software changes. OpenSpec is a specification-driven process, meaning written change plans and requirements guide the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create change proposals, explore ideas, apply approved tasks, synchronize specifications, archive completed work, and inspect change status.
Why use it?
It gives teams a defined path from an idea to an implemented and checked change, with commands for viewing progress and validating specifications.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/emcd/nb-mcp-server/openspec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emcd/nb-mcp-server
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 389 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00389
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00195
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00039

Measured yesterday against content hash 6e2f7310a46f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openspec scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

documentation/agents/openspec.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

OpenSpec Instructions

This project uses OpenSpec 1.x (OPSX), the action-based workflow. OPSX skills deliver workflow instructions through the agentsmgr distribution pipeline.

Workflow

  • opsx-propose -- create a complete change proposal in one step.
  • opsx-explore -- think through ideas before committing to a change.
  • opsx-apply -- implement tasks from an approved change.
  • opsx-sync -- sync delta specs into main specs.
  • opsx-archive -- archive a completed change.

CLI State Queries

  • openspec list and openspec list --specs -- active changes and specs.
  • openspec status --change <id> -- artifact state for a change.
  • openspec instructions <artifact> --change <id> -- authoring instructions.
  • openspec validate --all --strict -- validate changes and specs.

Conventions

  • Project configuration: openspec/config.yaml (default schema: spec-driven). Custom workflow schemas may be added under openspec/schemas/ as the project evolves.
  • Minimum OpenSpec version: >= 1.4.0. The 1.5 stores/worksets feature is unstable beta -- do not depend on it.
  • Change IDs: kebab-case, verb-led (add-, update-, remove-, refactor-).
  • Every requirement uses SHALL/MUST and carries at least one #### Scenario: (exactly four hashtags).
  • When a commit completes an OpenSpec task or requirement, update the relevant task status in the same commit.

Treat OpenSpec proposals like code: commit proposal files to a branch, reviewers review the commit (git show), author amends as needed, merge when settled. No notebook draft step.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 38 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6e2f7310a46f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

openspec is an agent published in the GitHub repository emcd/nb-mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 389 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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