go

A single command for running the SpecSwarm development workflow from feature definition through implementation, verification, and release review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start an end-to-end feature workflow, manage its state, run implementation and verification phases, handle visual review gates, and request final release approval.
Why use it?
It organizes planning, decisions, preflight checks, coding, testing, retrospective work, and approval points into one guided process with limited pauses for human input.

Command

Part of the ss plugin — 10 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 4 hooks 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/martybonacci/specswarm/go
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MartyBonacci/specswarm

Or install ss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 4 hooks.

Per session 81 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,199 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 $0.00081 $0.01199
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00600
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00120

Measured 3d ago against content hash 076131692eef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

go 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 3d 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/ss/commands/go.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SpecSwarm Go — the full ladder, ≤4 human touchpoints

North star: a small feature ships end-to-end with at most 4 human touchpoints — (1) this kickoff, (2) the assumptions review + batched decision sheet (back-to-back), (3) sighted gates on visual slices, (4) the ship blessing. Everything else runs itself. If you find yourself wanting to ask the user something outside those four, check the taste model and codebase precedent first (assume-with-provenance).

/ss:build is untouched and still works; /ss:go is the v7.17.0 ladder that includes the autonomous-loop phases (decisions, preflight, verify, retrospective) that build predates.

Step 1: Kickoff — write the go-loop state

REPO_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || pwd)
PLUGIN_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
# shellcheck disable=SC1091
source "${PLUGIN_DIR}/lib/features-location.sh"

mkdir -p "${REPO_ROOT}/.specswarm"

# Refuse to stack loops
if [ -f "${REPO_ROOT}/.specswarm/go-loop.state" ] || [ -f "${REPO_ROOT}/.specswarm/build-loop.state" ]; then
  echo "❌ A build/go loop is already active. Finish it or remove the state file first."
  exit 1
fi

# Next feature number (mirrors /ss:build's convention)
get_features_dir "$REPO_ROOT"
LAST_NUM=$(list_features "$REPO_ROOT" 2>/dev/null | grep -oE '^[0-9]{3}' | sort -nr | head -1)
NEXT_NUM=$(printf '%03d' $(( ${LAST_NUM:-0} + 1 )))

jq -n \
  --arg desc "<feature_description>" \
  --arg num "$NEXT_NUM" \
  --arg started "$(date -Iseconds)" \
  '{
    active: true,
    feature_description: $desc,
    feature_num: $num,
    current_phase: "specify",
    started_at: $started
  }' > "${REPO_ROOT}/.specswarm/go-loop.state"

echo "🚀 /ss:go — feature ${NEXT_NUM}, ladder engaged (state: .specswarm/go-loop.state)"

Step 2: Run the ladder

Use the SlashCommand tool to execute: /ss:specify <feature_description>

From here the go-loop Stop hook (hooks/go-loop-hook.sh) drives phase advancement — after each phase's artifacts land, it blocks the stop and feeds the next phase's instructions. The phases, in order, with their pause semantics:

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 3d ago First seen · 79 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 076131692eef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

go is a command published in the GitHub repository MartyBonacci/specswarm (65 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,199 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.