speckit.checklist

A command for creating a checklist from a software feature's specification, plan, and task files. A checklist is a set of items used to verify that requirements or work are complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a focused review checklist for areas such as requirements, edge cases, dependencies, or implementation quality.
Why use it?
It brings together relevant project details so the checklist reflects the feature's requirements, technical dependencies, and implementation tasks.

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/github/spec-kit-copilot/speckit.checklist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/spec-kit-copilot
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 247 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 $0.00247
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00123
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00025

Measured yesterday against content hash 03df1864eada, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speckit.checklist 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.

spec-kit-presets/copilot-sub-agents/commands/speckit.checklist.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Sub-Agent Delegation

When executing this command, delegate independent work to parallel sub-agents to reduce total execution time.

How to dispatch sub-agents in Copilot:

  • VS Code: Use the runSubagent tool to spawn each sub-agent in an isolated context.
  • CLI: Delegate to a sub-agent process — Copilot CLI automatically manages subsidiary sub-agent execution. You can also target custom agents defined in .github/agents/ or ~/.copilot/agents/.

Feature Context Loading in Parallel

When loading feature context (step 4), dispatch parallel reads:

  1. Sub-agent: Spec analysis — "Read spec.md at {FEATURE_DIR}/spec.md. Extract requirements, user stories, edge cases, and non-functional attributes relevant to the checklist domain: '{domain}'. Return a structured summary focused on requirement quality signals."

  2. Sub-agent: Plan and tasks analysis — "Read plan.md and tasks.md at {FEATURE_DIR}/ (if they exist). Extract technical details, dependencies, and implementation tasks relevant to the checklist domain: '{domain}'. Return a structured summary."

Use the consolidated results to generate higher-quality, context-aware checklist items.

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 · 19 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 03df1864eada

Subscribe to this mod's changes

speckit.checklist is a command published in the GitHub repository github/spec-kit-copilot (11 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 247 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 2026-08-30.