serve

A command that compiles imported Spec Kit graphs and starts them as a local MCP server over standard input and output. Spec Kit is a project format for managing software specifications, and MCP lets an AI assistant use the resulting tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it from a Spec Kit project after importing its artifacts. It verifies the local files, compiles the graphs, and runs the server in the foreground.
Why use it?
It makes imported specification workflows available to an assistant without opening a network service. The instructions also limit access to the intended project data and reject unexpected input.

Command

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/specdog/dotdog/serve
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/specdog/dotdog
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 305 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 $0.00305
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured yesterday against content hash 13c9df134cd7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

serve 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 yesterday.

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/serve.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Serve imported Spec Kit graphs

Prerequisites

  1. Run this command from the root of the intended Spec Kit project.
  2. Confirm dotdog --version is 0.9.0 or newer.
  3. Confirm .doghouse/speckit/ exists. Run /speckit.dotdog.import first when it does not.

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

This command accepts no input. Do not interpolate $ARGUMENTS into a shell command. Stop when any argument is supplied.

Steps

  1. Verify .doghouse/speckit/ is a real directory inside the current project root and is not a symlink.

  2. Compile the imported graphs:

    dotdog compile .doghouse/speckit
    
  3. Start the local MCP server in the foreground:

    dotdog serve .doghouse/speckit
    
  4. Keep the process attached exclusively to stdio. When the session ends, stop it normally and leave generated graph files unchanged.

Safety

  • Never execute user input as shell text.
  • Do not expose a TCP, HTTP, WebSocket, or other network listener.
  • Do not add credentials, environment secrets, telemetry, background persistence, or elevated privileges.
  • Do not follow symlinks or read outside .doghouse/speckit/.
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. yesterday First seen · 42 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 13c9df134cd7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

serve is a command published in the GitHub repository specdog/dotdog (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 305 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 2026-08-31.