refinery

A plugin for turning rough ideas and requirements into clearer specifications, architecture decisions, implementation plans, reviews, and work tickets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new system designs, feature specifications, iterative reviews, drift checks, final documentation, and breaking work into tickets.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to refine unclear requirements, check whether plans match the specification, and find missing or outdated details.

Plugin 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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add dhofheinz/open-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/dhofheinz/open-plugins/refinery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dhofheinz/open-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

refinery 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.

plugins/refinery/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{
  "name": "refinery",
  "version": "1.2.0",
  "description": "Unified specification refinement plugin. Single entry point for all spec operations: greenfield architecture pipelines (principles → design → stack → spec → plan), feature spec creation, iterative convergence loops, quality reviews, drift detection, finalization, and dispatch-compatible ticket decomposition. Treats specifications as typed nodes in an artifact graph with first-class confidence and evidence.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Daniel Hofheinz",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "url": "https://github.com/dhofheinz"
  },
  "license": "MIT",
  "repository": "https://github.com/dhofheinz/open-plugins",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/dhofheinz/open-plugins/tree/main/plugins/refinery",
  "keywords": [
    "specification",
    "requirements",
    "refinement",
    "architecture",
    "EARS",
    "Given-When-Then",
    "iterative",
    "convergence",
    "drift-detection",
    "tickets",
    "dispatch-compatible",
    "documentation",
    "planning"
  ],
  "userConfig": {
    "working_directory": {
      "type": "directory",
      "title": "Working directory",
      "description": "Default working directory for Refinery artifacts (relative to project root). Defaults to docs/refinery/ if unset. Override per-invocation with --output-dir flag.",
      "sensitive": false
    },
    "spec_writer_model": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Spec writer model",
      "description": "Model alias used by the spec-writer agent (sonnet, opus, haiku, or full model ID). Defaults to sonnet, which handles structured template-filling (spec/feature-spec/plan/stack) well. The principles and design stages use opus by default (overridable by this setting) because they synthesize structure from a seed idea.",
      "sensitive": false
    },
    "specialist_model": {
      "type": "string",
      "title": "Specialist agents model",
      "description": "Model alias used by the four specialist agents (spe

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. yesterday First seen · 49 lines scan A a3f33840ba6d

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refinery is a plugin published in the GitHub repository dhofheinz/open-plugins (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.