help

A help command for a spec-driven development workflow. Spec-driven development means writing and reviewing a software plan before implementing it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to see commands for creating specifications, reviewing them, generating Mermaid diagrams, checking status, choosing the next feature, and implementing tasks with test-driven development.
Why use it?
It makes the available project commands and their order easier to understand. It also shows which command creates, reviews, diagrams, executes, or tracks a feature specification.

Command for Claude Code

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/marcelsud/spec-driven-agentic-development/help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcelsud/spec-driven-agentic-development

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 680 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 $0.00010 $0.00680
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00340
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00068

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0b4209a4ad69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

help 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.

.claude/commands/spec/help.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec-Driven Development Help

Quick reference for the spec:driven development methodology.

Available Commands

Command Description
/spec:create [feature] Generate complete specification with codebase exploration
/spec:execute [feature] Execute implementation from tasks.md
/spec:status Show implementation status of all features
/spec:list List all available features
/spec:review [feature] Review spec for EARS compliance and quality
/spec:diagram [feature] Generate Mermaid diagrams from spec
/spec:next Suggest next feature to work on
/spec:help Display this help

Workflow

/spec:create [feature]  →  exploration.md + context.md + requirements.md + tasks.md
/spec:review [feature]  →  Quality review + optional fixes
/spec:diagram [feature] →  Mermaid diagrams in diagrams.md
/spec:next              →  Recommendation for next feature
/spec:execute [feature] →  Implementation following TDD

/spec:create Flow (Enhanced)

  1. Triage - Assess complexity, determine exploration depth
  2. Explore - Spawn agents to analyze codebase patterns (parallel)
  3. Questions - Context-aware questions informed by exploration
  4. Plan - Spawn agents for approaches and strategies (parallel)
  5. Synthesize - Create exploration.md with findings
  6. Generate - Create context.md, requirements.md, tasks.md

EARS Requirements Format

Type Template
Ubiquitous "The system SHALL [requirement]"
Event-Driven "WHEN [trigger] THEN the system SHALL [response]"
State-Driven "WHILE [state] the system SHALL [requirement]"
Conditional "IF [condition] THEN the system SHALL [requirement]"
Optional "WHERE [feature] the system SHALL [requirement]"

TDD Cycle

  1. Red: Write failing test
  2. Green: Minimal code to pass
  3. Refactor: Improve while green

File Structure

features/[feature-name]/
├── exploration.md  # Codebase analysis + approach evaluation
├── context.md      # Context + technical decisions
├── requirements.md # EARS requirements
├── tasks.md        # TDD implementation tasks
├── diagrams.md     # Generated Mermaid diagrams (optional)
└── review.md       # Spec quality review (optional)

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 2d ago First seen · 98 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 0b4209a4ad69

Subscribe to this mod's changes

help is a command published in the GitHub repository marcelsud/spec-driven-agentic-development (174 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 680 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 2026-08-30.