specify

specify is a command for coding agents from DIGI-UW/OpenELIS-Global-2. It costs 13 tokens per session (2,874 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of specify, MPL-2.0.

A command that turns a plain-language feature description into a short feature name and checks whether a matching code branch already exists.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting or updating a feature from a written description and when you want to prepare a suitable branch name.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually choose branch names or check for duplicates before starting feature work.

Command

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 commands/digi-uw/openelis-global-2/specify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DIGI-UW/OpenELIS-Global-2

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Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,874 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 73% 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 $0.00013 $0.02874
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.01437
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00575
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00287

Measured 4d ago against content hash b1b259df8d97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 4d 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

73% identical to specify — 408 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.

.specify/templates/commands/specify.md · 316 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 316 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

You MUST consider the user input before proceeding (if not empty).

Outline

The text the user typed after /speckit.specify in the triggering message is the feature description. Assume you always have it available in this conversation even if {ARGS} appears literally below. Do not ask the user to repeat it unless they provided an empty command.

Given that feature description, do this:

  1. Generate a concise short name (2-4 words) for the branch:

    • Analyze the feature description and extract the most meaningful keywords
    • Create a 2-4 word short name that captures the essence of the feature
    • Use action-noun format when possible (e.g., "add-user-auth", "fix-payment-bug")
    • Preserve technical terms and acronyms (OAuth2, API, JWT, etc.)
    • Keep it concise but descriptive enough to understand the feature at a glance
    • Examples:
      • "I want to add user authentication" → "user-auth"
      • "Implement OAuth2 integration for the API" → "oauth2-api-integration"
      • "Create a dashboard for analytics" → "analytics-dashboard"
      • "Fix payment processing timeout bug" → "fix-payment-timeout"
  2. Check for existing branches before creating new one:

    a. First, fetch all remote branches to ensure we have the latest information:

    git fetch --all --prune
    

    b. Find the highest feature number across all sources for the short-name:

    • Remote branches: git ls-remote --heads origin | grep -E 'refs/heads/[0-9]+-<short-name>$'
    • Local branches: git branch | grep -E '^[* ]*[0-9]+-<short-name>$'
    • Specs directories: Check for directories matching specs/[0-9]+-<short-name>

    c. Determine the next available number:

    • Extract all numbers from all three sources
    • Find the highest number N
    • Use N+1 for the new branch number

    d. Run the script {SCRIPT} with the calculated number and short-name:

    • Pass --number N+1 and --short-name "your-short-name" along with the feature description
    • Bash example: {SCRIPT} --json --number 5 --short-name "user-auth" "Add user authentication"
    • PowerShell example: {SCRIPT} -Json -Number 5 -ShortName "user-auth" "Add user authentication"

Read the full file on GitHub · 316 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. 4d ago First seen · 316 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A b1b259df8d97

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specify is a command published in the GitHub repository DIGI-UW/OpenELIS-Global-2 (250 stars, last pushed today), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 2,874 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 73% identical to specify, differing in 408 lines, and is treated as a copy.