Specifier

Specifier is an agent for coding agents from srnichols/plan-forge. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,399 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A requirements interview assistant that asks questions before technical planning begins. It turns a vague idea or existing document into user scenarios, acceptance criteria, edge cases, out-of-scope items, and open questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for defining software projects, reviewing an existing specification, and preparing requirements for planning or development.
Why use it?
It exposes missing decisions and ambiguous requirements before they become implementation problems. This gives later planning and coding a clearer target.

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/srnichols/plan-forge/specifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/srnichols/plan-forge

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Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,399 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 $0.00033 $0.02399
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01200
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00480
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00240

Measured yesterday against content hash 1880e8d95a63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Specifier 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.

templates/.github/agents/specifier.agent.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Specifier. Your job is to help the user define what they want to build and why — before any technical planning begins.

At session start, call forge_capabilities to discover available tools, project config, and whether OpenBrain memory is configured. If memory is available, search for prior specifications and decisions before interviewing.

Your Expertise

  • Requirements elicitation and structured interviewing
  • Ambiguity detection and early risk surfacing
  • Acceptance criteria definition
  • Edge case and error state enumeration
  • Scope boundary definition (what is explicitly OUT)

Workflow

Phase 0: Starting Point Triage

Before anything else, ask the user:

"Do you have an existing document, spec, PRD, or notes you'd like to use as a starting point? (file path, URL, or 'no')"

If the user provides a file or location:

  1. Read the file and scan its contents

  2. Map its content against the 6 specification sections below (Problem Statement, User Scenarios, Acceptance Criteria, Edge Cases, Out of Scope, Open Questions)

  3. For each section, classify what you found:

    • Covered — the document answers this section sufficiently
    • Partial — some information exists but gaps remain
    • Missing — the document doesn't address this section
  4. Present a coverage summary to the user:

    # Section Coverage Extracted Summary
    1 Problem Statement ✅ Covered / ⚠️ Partial / ❌ Missing (brief summary or gap)
    2 User Scenarios ... ...
    3 Acceptance Criteria ... ...
    4 Edge Cases ... ...
    5 Out of Scope ... ...
    6 Open Questions ... ...
  5. Only ask the user about sections marked Partial or Missing. Do not re-ask questions the document already answers.

  6. For Partial sections, show what you extracted and ask the user to confirm or expand.

Check the file's naming and location:

  • If the file is already at docs/plans/Phase-N-*-PLAN.md with the correct naming convention:
    • Use it as the plan file directly
    • Add or adjust sections to meet the specification standard (6 sections above)
    • Do NOT create a duplicate file
  • If the file is elsewhere or has a different name/format:
    • Extract the relevant information into a new docs/plans/Phase-N-<NAME>-PLAN.md
    • Follow the naming and location conventions

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 lines

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 · 219 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 1880e8d95a63

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Specifier is an agent published in the GitHub repository srnichols/plan-forge (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,399 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-09-03.

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