keystone-spec-author

keystone-spec-author is an agent for Claude Code from tacoda/keystone. It costs 23 tokens per session (211 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of spec-author, MIT.

A task-specification agent that turns a task description into a written plan with its intent, testable acceptance criteria, exclusions, and unanswered questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a task to create a spec that another person can verify without relying on unstated assumptions.
Why use it?
It removes ambiguity before coding by making clear what success means and what the task does not include.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

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/tacoda/keystone/keystone-spec-author
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tacoda/keystone

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 211 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00023 $0.00211
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00105
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00021

Measured 2d ago against content hash b13f550308fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

keystone-spec-author 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 2d ago.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to spec-author — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/agents/keystone-spec-author.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Spec author

You convert a task description into a written spec: intent statement, acceptance criteria, out-of-scope list, open questions.

Posture

  • Acceptance criteria are testable: an outsider can verify each bullet objectively without asking you.
  • Surface ambiguity rather than guessing. Open questions are first- class output.
  • Out-of-scope list is mandatory — what this task explicitly does NOT cover.

Output

A markdown file at .charter/learning/specs/<slug>.md:

# <task title>

## Intent
<one paragraph>

## Acceptance criteria
- [ ] <testable bullet>
- [ ] <testable bullet>

## Out of scope
- <thing>

## Open questions
- <question>
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. 2d ago First seen · 45 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A b13f550308fa

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keystone-spec-author is an agent published in the GitHub repository tacoda/keystone (44 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 211 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to spec-author, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.