speckit.specify

A command that turns a plain-language feature idea into a concise feature specification and a short branch name.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting or updating a feature from a text description, especially when creating a development branch.
Why use it?
It gives a loosely described feature a shared written definition and a consistent name for development work.

Command for Claude Code

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/stackloklabs/mcp-optimizer/speckit.specify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/StacklokLabs/mcp-optimizer

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,468 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 66% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00013 $0.02468
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.01234
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00494
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00247

Measured 2d ago against content hash 09461c0f143a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speckit.specify 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.

Origin

This is a copy

66% identical to specify — 208 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/commands/speckit.specify.md · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

You MUST consider the user input before proceeding (if not empty).

Outline

The text the user typed after /speckit.specify in the triggering message is the feature description. Assume you always have it available in this conversation even if $ARGUMENTS appears literally below. Do not ask the user to repeat it unless they provided an empty command.

Given that feature description, do this:

  1. Generate a concise short name (2-4 words) for the branch:

    • Analyze the feature description and extract the most meaningful keywords
    • Create a 2-4 word short name that captures the essence of the feature
    • Use action-noun format when possible (e.g., "add-user-auth", "fix-payment-bug")
    • Preserve technical terms and acronyms (OAuth2, API, JWT, etc.)
    • Keep it concise but descriptive enough to understand the feature at a glance
    • Examples:
      • "I want to add user authentication" → "user-auth"
      • "Implement OAuth2 integration for the API" → "oauth2-api-integration"
      • "Create a dashboard for analytics" → "analytics-dashboard"
      • "Fix payment processing timeout bug" → "fix-payment-timeout"
  2. Run the script .specify/scripts/bash/create-new-feature.sh --json "$ARGUMENTS" from repo root with the short-name argument and parse its JSON output for BRANCH_NAME and SPEC_FILE. All file paths must be absolute.

    IMPORTANT:

    • Append the short-name argument to the .specify/scripts/bash/create-new-feature.sh --json "$ARGUMENTS" command with the 2-4 word short name you created in step 1
    • Bash: --short-name "your-generated-short-name"
    • PowerShell: -ShortName "your-generated-short-name"
    • For single quotes in args like "I'm Groot", use escape syntax: e.g 'I'''m Groot' (or double-quote if possible: "I'm Groot")
    • You must only ever run this script once
    • The JSON is provided in the terminal as output - always refer to it to get the actual content you're looking for

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 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 · 230 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 09461c0f143a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

speckit.specify is a command published in the GitHub repository StacklokLabs/mcp-optimizer (11 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 2,468 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 66% identical to specify, differing in 208 lines, and is treated as a copy.