extract-spec

extract-spec is a command for Cursor from rhyanvargas/agentic-development-starter-kit. It costs 0 tokens per session (162 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that records how existing code currently behaves as a written specification. A brownfield project is an existing codebase being documented or changed, rather than a new project started from scratch.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze a source folder or feature, document its current requirements and gaps, and prepare for a future change specification.
Why use it?
It gives a team a shared description of current behavior before planning changes. This helps separate what the code does now from what it should do later.

Command for Cursor

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/rhyanvargas/agentic-development-starter-kit/extract-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rhyanvargas/agentic-development-starter-kit

Made for: Cursor.

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README.md
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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 162 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 $0.00162
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00016

Measured 3d ago against content hash 87d9800e25e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

extract-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 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.

.cursor/commands/extract-spec.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

/extract-spec

Document existing code as a baseline specification (brownfield).

Skill

Read and follow skills/spec-driven-workflow, especially references/brownfield-workflow.md and references/artifact-homes.md.

Usage

/extract-spec src/auth/
/extract-spec "user authentication"

Behavior

  1. Search and analyze the target code.
  2. Document current behavior (not desired future) with clear requirements/gaps.
  3. Resolve the spec path via the skill. As a Cursor / command, default to .cursor/docs/specs/{area}-current.md unless the project already uses docs/specs/ or the user overrides.
  4. Suggest drafting a change spec next via /draft-spec.
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 · 22 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 87d9800e25e0

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extract-spec is a command published in the GitHub repository rhyanvargas/agentic-development-starter-kit (2 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 162 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.