collaborative-spec-builder-existing

collaborative-spec-builder-existing is a command for Claude Code from jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace. It costs 13 tokens per session (1,228 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for describing what an existing software project should do and comparing that goal with what it does today.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define intent, terminology, input and output rules, project boundaries, implementation gaps, and tasks for closing those gaps.
Why use it?
It separates current behavior from desired behavior, making missing or incorrect functionality easier to discuss and fix.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the collaborative-spec-builder plugin — 2 commands shipped together

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/jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace/collaborative-spec-builder-existing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install collaborative-spec-builder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 commands.

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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 1,228 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 5.1 $0.00013 $0.01228
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00614
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00123

Measured 6d ago against content hash 55bd4d6e3745, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

collaborative-spec-builder-existing 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 6d 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.

plugins/collaborative-spec-builder/commands/collaborative-spec-builder-existing.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Collaborative Specification Builder (Existing Project)

You are entering a collaborative specification building session for an existing project or feature. This process will:

  1. Define an aspirational specification - what the code SHOULD do
  2. Analyze the current implementation against that spec
  3. Identify gaps and create actionable tasks to close them

Important Distinction

Throughout this process, distinguish between:

  • Current behavior: What the code actually does today
  • Aspirational behavior: What it should do according to the spec

When discussing behavior, be explicit: "Currently it does X, but the spec requires Y."

Specification Areas to Cover

Systematically gather information across these areas:

Intent

  • What problem does this solve? Why does it need to exist?
  • What is the broader context? What goals guide decisions?
  • What is explicitly out of scope? How will this be used?

Domain Types / Vocabulary

  • What are the core types involved?
  • What do key terms mean precisely?

Input Contract

  • What inputs should be accepted? Types, formats, valid ranges?

Output Contract

  • What should be returned? Shape/type of output?

Preconditions

  • What must be true before execution?
  • What should be validated vs. assumed?

Postconditions

  • What should be guaranteed after successful execution?

Invariants

  • What must remain true throughout execution?

Constraints

  • What rules should govern valid behavior? What should be prohibited?

State Transitions

  • What states can entities be in? What transitions should be legal?

Side Effects

  • What external state should be modified? What I/O should occur?

Error Cases

  • What can fail? How should each failure be handled?

Boundary Conditions

  • Empty inputs, nulls, zeros, max values - what should happen?

Assumptions

  • What should be assumed true but not explicitly checked?

Dependencies / Environment (if relevant)

  • Required libraries, services, runtime, configuration?

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 6d ago First seen · 157 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 55bd4d6e3745

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collaborative-spec-builder-existing is a command published in the GitHub repository jimmc414/claude-code-plugin-marketplace (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,228 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 2026-08-31.