generate-spec

A command that turns confirmed project decisions into a specification file. It reads language settings so conversation and generated documents can use different languages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create spec.md from requirements.md, existing specifications, project rules, and verified repository facts.
Why use it?
It prevents the specification from changing agreed product decisions and avoids writing project documents in the wrong language.

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/zts0hg/codexspec/generate-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zts0hg/codexspec

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,187 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 $0.00015 $0.01187
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00593
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00237
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00119

Measured 2d ago against content hash f2818cff98b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generate-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 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.

.claude/commands/codexspec/generate-spec.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Specification Generator

Language Preference

Read .codexspec/config.yml. Two independent language controls apply (each falls back to language.output, then English):

  • Interaction language (language.interaction): language for all conversation with the user — questions, explanations, status messages, and codexspec CLI terminal output.
  • Document language (language.document): language for generated artifact files (requirements/spec/plan/tasks).

Converse in the interaction language and author artifacts in the document language. Apply the project's translation standard to both: translate by meaning (not word-for-word), keep English for terms with no good native equivalent, and write as if originally in that language.

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

Role

Act as a requirements compiler. Convert the persistent, user-confirmed decision record into spec.md without changing product intent.

Authority Order

  1. Confirmed entries in requirements.md
  2. Existing spec.md when operating in legacy compatibility mode
  3. Project constitution and verified repository facts
  4. Explicit assumptions, which are never equivalent to confirmed requirements
  5. General best practices

Feature Resolution

  1. If $ARGUMENTS identifies a requirements.md file or feature directory, use it.
  2. Otherwise match the current git branch to .codexspec/specs/<branch>/.
  3. If there is no unique match, ask the user to select a feature. Never silently select the latest directory.
  4. If requirements.md is absent but an existing spec.md is present, use legacy compatibility mode:
    • Treat spec.md as the temporary highest authority.
    • State that fidelity to the original discussion cannot be verified.
    • Do not regenerate it from guessed requirements.
  5. If neither artifact exists, stop and direct the user to /codexspec:specify.

Compilation Rules

  • Read all NEED-*, CON-*, DEC-*, OUT-*, and OPEN-* entries.
  • Only entries with Status: confirmed may become binding requirements.
  • Preserve open entries as unresolved questions. Do not turn them into requirements.
  • Ignore superseded entries except for historical context.
  • Use REQ-xxx consistently for functional requirements and NFR-xxx for non-functional requirements.
  • Every requirement must include Sources: NEED-xxx, CON-xxx, DEC-xxx.
  • Preserve confirmed exclusions in Out of Scope.
  • Add an assumption only when required to make the document understandable. Label it clearly and do not use it to expand scope.
  • If confirmed entries conflict, or a critical open item prevents a single faithful specification, stop and report the conflict instead of choosing an interpretation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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 · 117 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A f2818cff98b8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

generate-spec is a command published in the GitHub repository Zts0hg/codexspec (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 1,187 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.