speckit.companion.after-specify

speckit.companion.after-specify is a command for Claude Code from alfredoperez/speckit-companion. It costs 15 tokens per session (464 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lifecycle command that records completion of the specification stage in a project-status file. It updates the SpecKit Companion graphical interface with the current workflow step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a specification is created to record that the feature has reached the specified state.
Why use it?
It keeps the companion interface aligned with the specification workflow without manual status updates.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md).

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 .specify/extensions/companion/scripts/write-context.py --step specify --status specified --by extension.

Good fit Use it after a specification is created to record that the feature has reached the specified state.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alfredoperez/speckit-companion
agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/alfredoperez/speckit-companion/speckit.companion.after-specify

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 464 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00015 $0.00464
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00232
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00046

Measured 2d ago against content hash 913b85842d3d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speckit.companion.after-specify 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.

speckit-extension/commands/speckit.companion.after-specify.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Capture Spec Context

Record the active feature's current pipeline step into .spec-context.json so the SpecKit Companion GUI re-renders with the correct step and status. This command runs as the after_specify lifecycle hook — state-writing only; the spec directory and files are created by the core speckit.specify workflow.

Prerequisites

  • Verify Python is available by running python3 --version.
  • If python3 is not available, warn the user and skip the capture: [companion] Warning: python3 not detected; skipped .spec-context.json capture. Do not fail the host command.

Execution

Run the writer script from the repository root:

python3 .specify/extensions/companion/scripts/write-context.py --step specify --status specified --by extension

The script resolves the active feature directory on its own, in this order: --feature-dirSPECIFY_FEATURE_DIRECTORY env → SPECIFY_FEATURE env → .specify/feature.json → current git branch prefix.

If you already know the feature directory (e.g. the one speckit.specify just created), pass it explicitly so resolution is unambiguous:

python3 .specify/extensions/companion/scripts/write-context.py --feature-dir specs/<NNN>-<slug> --step specify --status specified --by extension

Graceful Degradation

The script is best-effort and never fails the host command:

  • If python3 is missing, skip with the warning above.
  • If the active feature directory cannot be resolved, the script prints a warning to stderr and exits 0 without writing.

Output

On success the script prints the path it updated and the values written, e.g.: [companion] Updated specs/<NNN>-<slug>/.spec-context.json (currentStep=specify, status=specified, by=extension). The write is atomic (temp file + rename) and appends to the canonical history[] without rewriting existing entries.

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 Changed 913b85842d3d
  2. 9d ago First seen · 51 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A cd386d978e50

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speckit.companion.after-specify is a command published in the GitHub repository alfredoperez/speckit-companion (90 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 464 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.