specship: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

specship CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from bonnguyenitc/specship. It costs 643 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Developer instructions for Specship, a tool that installs a specification-to-coding workflow into projects for several coding agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
They document the project structure, naming rules, pipeline states, installation targets, and required verification with the test suite.
Why use it?
They keep the workflow's names, stages, files, and tests consistent so changes do not break the pipeline.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

This is bonnguyenitc/specship's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on specship itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything specship configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to bonnguyenitc/specship. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bonnguyenitc/specship/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bonnguyenitc/specship

Made for: Claude Code.

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Grade A, and why

specship CLAUDE.md 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 1mo 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.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

specship — dev guide

npm package that installs a spec→plan→coding→review skills workflow into projects (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity). Entry: bin/cli.js → src/cli.js; install logic in src/init.js + src/targets.js; skill sources in skills/; subagent definitions in agents/ (installed only for targets declaring subagents in targets.js — today just Claude Code); per-agent templates in .claude/, .codex/, .cursor/, .antigravity/.

Naming: ss- prefixes skills, never task state. Every skill folder and frontmatter name: is ss-<skill> (skills/ss-spec/, /ss-ship), as are the subagents in agents/ (ss-explorer, …). The pipeline's state vocabulary stays bare: stage:, artifacts:, next_phase:, resume_phase:, --phase, and the Pipeline Log's stage labels are all spec|plan|coding|review|debug|done. Prefixing those would break every existing task.md. STAGE_SKILLS in src/init.js is keyed by directory name, so it carries the prefix.

Verify every change

Always prove a change works before declaring it done:

  • npm test — zero-dep test suite (test/pipeline.test.js + test/cli.test.js). Fixtures must describe tasks that could actually exist: a task.md whose artifacts: map names a confirmed spec needs spec.md on disk to match (use the filesFor helper). Fictional fixtures hid a whole class of bugs once — see tasks/LESSONS.md L2/L3.
  • Real install: node bin/cli.js init --all --dir "$(mktemp -d)", then inspect the resulting tree (marker block in CLAUDE.md, skills copied, codex-only openai.yaml manifest, claude-only .claude/agents/ subagents and nowhere else).
  • Anything touching packaging or publish.sh: ./publish.sh --dry-run.

Learnings

When Claude makes a mistake in this repo, don't just correct it in chat — add the lesson here as a bullet so it never repeats.

  • .claude/CLAUDE.md is not only this repo's project instructions: it is the template specship init merges into consumers' CLAUDE.md. Edits there ship to users — dev-only guidance belongs in this file (root CLAUDE.md).
  • package.json files must list .claude/CLAUDE.md (the template), not the whole .claude/ dir, so local dev config (settings.json, commands/) never ships in the npm tarball.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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. 1mo ago First seen · 44 lines · 643 tokens per session scan A e5812e593ec5

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specship CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bonnguyenitc/specship (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 643 tokens to every session, about $0.0026 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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