sdlc-refresh

A command that checks whether a merged software change requires updates to the earlier documents that describe the product and its rules. It proposes edits to those documents for a named human to decide on.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to detect, draft, apply, or inspect proposed updates to requirements, epics, feature briefs, and business rules after a specification is merged.
Why use it?
It prevents requirements and business documents from quietly becoming outdated after the code changes.

Command

Part of the claude-code-sdlc plugin — 9 skills, 28 commands, 20 agents 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/mckruz/claude-code-sdlc/sdlc-refresh
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MCKRUZ/claude-code-sdlc

Or install claude-code-sdlc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 28 commands, 20 agents.

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 2,399 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 $0.02399
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01200
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00480
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00240

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5a5e3289521e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdlc-refresh 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.

commands/sdlc-refresh.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/sdlc-refresh — Back-Propagate a Built Spec into Its Upstream Artifacts

Traceability normally flows forward (requirement → spec → code). This command runs it backward: when a spec merges, it surfaces the pre-Build artifacts that spec implies an edit to — requirements.md, epics.md, feature-brief.md, business-rules.md — so they stop silently drifting from what actually shipped. It reads as /sdlc-revise inverted: instead of you changing one artifact and rippling forward, a merged spec proposes the upstream edits and a named human confirms them.

/sdlc-refresh detect --spec specs/0001-duplicate-claim-409.md
/sdlc-refresh draft  --spec specs/0001-duplicate-claim-409.md --draft
/sdlc-refresh apply  --spec specs/0001-duplicate-claim-409.md requirements --actor me
/sdlc-refresh status --spec specs/0001-duplicate-claim-409.md

The One Rule holds throughout: the discipline agent drafts the change into a .proposed copy; a named human decides whether to apply it. No agent ever edits the real artifact.

Instructions

  1. Resolve mode and repo root:

    • Workflow mode (default): look for .sdlc/state.yaml; pass --state .sdlc/state.yaml. If not found, tell the user to run /sdlc-setup first.
    • Standalone mode (--repo <path>, or no .sdlc/): operate on the given repo.
  2. Detect — review first, draft only on a signal (the divergence-aware default). List the pre-Build upstreams the merged spec traces to (from its source: frontmatter and any in-vocabulary id in its body). A faithful spec that correctly realizes its upstream lists the upstreams as trace-only (no drift detected) and drafts nothing — the layer never becomes a rubber-stamp:

    uv run --project ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/audit_artifacts.py refresh detect --spec <spec-path> --state .sdlc/state.yaml
    
    • Each row is tagged declared (a written-down link) or coarse (a phase-order guess). Coarse guesses are listed for context and never auto-drafted.
    • Zero-candidate honesty: a source: —, or a non-vocabulary / nonexistent id (REQ-042, FR-999), yields zero candidates and the nudge "no traceable upstream — add an FR/EP/US/BR id to source:" — never a fabricated guess, never a crash.
    • Upstreams that already changed after the spec merged are suppressed as already-fresher.
    • Pass --draft to mark all declared upstreams draft-eligible even without a drift signal; --transitive / --include-coarse widen the set (coarse still never drafts).

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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 · 148 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5a5e3289521e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sdlc-refresh is a command published in the GitHub repository MCKRUZ/claude-code-sdlc (4 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,399 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 2026-08-31.