specify

A requirements-discovery command for discussing a proposed software change and recording the confirmed result in a requirements file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify a new feature, agree on its requirements, and create or update its authoritative requirements document.
Why use it?
It turns an informal conversation into a clear, lasting record that later design and implementation work can follow.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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 1,317 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 $0.00011 $0.01317
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00659
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00132

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6c10737accc2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

.claude/commands/codexspec/specify.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Requirement Discovery

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

Goal

Turn the user discussion into a persistent, traceable requirements.md. The discussion is the richest source of intent, but only the user's confirmed stage summary becomes binding downstream authority.

Do not generate spec.md in this command.

Feature Workspace

New Feature

When $ARGUMENTS is a new requirement:

  1. Derive a short kebab-case feature name.
  2. Run the platform create-new-feature script:
    • Bash: {SCRIPT} --name "<feature-name>"
    • PowerShell: {SCRIPT} -ShortName "<feature-name>" "<description>"
  3. Parse the created feature directory and requirements.md path.
  4. If branch creation is unavailable, continue in the workspace and report the limitation.

Existing Feature

When the argument identifies an existing feature:

  1. Use the explicit directory first.
  2. Otherwise match the current branch.
  3. If multiple features are possible, ask the user to select one. Never silently select the latest.
  4. Load the existing requirements.md.
  5. Legacy feature: if only spec.md exists, extract candidate entries from it, mark them open, and require user confirmation before they become authoritative.

Consult Project Profile

Before discussing and finalizing requirements, read the project profile under .codexspec/profile/ when it exists so the confirmed requirements.md is a synthesis that already accounts for accumulated project knowledge. Each category is a directory holding one record per file:

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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 · 130 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 6c10737accc2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

specify is a command published in the GitHub repository Zts0hg/codexspec (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 1,317 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.