speckit.spex-gates.review-spec

speckit.spex-gates.review-spec is a command for Claude Code from rhuss/cc-spex. It costs 11 tokens per session (2,676 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command for reviewing software specifications before implementation. It checks whether the requirements are complete, clear, and practical to build.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a specification's soundness, completeness, clarity, and implementability before coding begins.
Why use it?
It can expose missing details or contradictions before they cause confusion, rework, or differences between the specification and the finished code.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md). Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to assess a specification's soundness, completeness, clarity, and implementability before coding begins.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/rhuss/cc-spex/speckit.spex-gates.review-spec
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rhuss/cc-spex

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,676 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00011 $0.02676
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.01338
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00535
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00268

Measured 13d ago against content hash 91126476928f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speckit.spex-gates.review-spec 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 13d 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.

specs/038-neutral-command-vocab/pre-rewrite-snapshot/spex-gates/commands/speckit.spex-gates.review-spec.md · 394 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 394 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reviewing Specifications for Soundness

Ship Pipeline Guard

If .specify/.spex-state exists and its status is running, this command is part of an autonomous pipeline. Check the ask field:

  • If ask is "smart" or "never": suppress all user prompts (do NOT prompt the user interactively), complete the review autonomously, and return immediately so the pipeline can advance.
  • If ask is "always": prompt the user as normal.
if [ -f ".specify/.spex-state" ]; then
  STATUS=$(jq -r '.status // empty' .specify/.spex-state 2>/dev/null)
  ASK=$(jq -r '.ask // "always"' .specify/.spex-state 2>/dev/null)
  if [ "$STATUS" = "running" ] && [ "$ASK" != "always" ]; then
    echo "AUTONOMOUS_MODE=true"
  else
    echo "AUTONOMOUS_MODE=false"
  fi
else
  echo "AUTONOMOUS_MODE=false"
fi

In autonomous mode: do NOT output a completion summary, do NOT ask "Shall I proceed?", do NOT suggest next steps. Complete the review and return.

Overview

Validate specification quality before implementation begins.

A poor spec leads to confusion, rework, and spec/code drift. A sound spec enables smooth implementation.

This skill checks: completeness, clarity, implementability, and testability.

When to Use

  • After spec creation (before implementation)
  • Before generating implementation plan
  • When spec seems unclear or incomplete
  • Periodically for important specs

Prerequisites

Spec-kit must be initialized. If .specify/ directory does not exist, tell the user to run /spex:init first and stop.

Spec Selection

If a spec path is provided as an argument, use it directly.

Otherwise, attempt branch-based resolution:

.specify/scripts/bash/check-prerequisites.sh --json --paths-only 2>/dev/null

If this succeeds (outputs JSON with FEATURE_SPEC), use the resolved spec path. Parse the JSON to extract FEATURE_SPEC and FEATURE_DIR.

If this fails (not on a feature branch, no matching spec directory), fall back to interactive selection:

Read the full file on GitHub · 394 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. 13d ago First seen · 394 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 91126476928f

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speckit.spex-gates.review-spec is a command published in the GitHub repository rhuss/cc-spex (118 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 2,676 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.