spec-driven-development

spec-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 233i/agent-skills. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,966 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of spec-driven-development, MIT.

A development method that writes a clear specification before any code. The specification records the goal, requirements, project layout, commands, and checks for deciding when the work is complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new projects, new features, architecture changes, or other work that needs agreement before coding.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork when requirements are unclear or a change spans several parts of a project. People review the goal and plan before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 20 skills, 7 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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 skills/233i/agent-skills/spec-driven-development
Any agent
npx skills add 233i/agent-skills --skill spec-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/233i/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 7 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for spec-driven-development

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/233i/agent-skills/spec-driven-development.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/233i/agent-skills/spec-driven-development)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/233i/agent-skills/spec-driven-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/233i/agent-skills/spec-driven-development.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,966 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 98% 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 $0.00058 $0.01966
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00983
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00393
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00197

Measured 3d ago against content hash a6aac3ddf29a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-driven-development 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 3d 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

98% identical to spec-driven-development — 192 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.

skills/spec-driven-development/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

规格驱动开发

概览

在写任何代码之前,先写一份结构化的规格说明。Spec 是你和人类工程师之间共享的事实来源,它定义了我们要构建什么、为什么构建,以及如何判断它已经完成。没有 spec 的代码,本质上是在猜。

何时使用

  • 开始一个新项目或新功能
  • 需求有歧义或不完整
  • 改动会涉及多个文件或模块
  • 你将要做架构决策
  • 任务实现预计会超过 30 分钟

不适用的场景: 单行修复、拼写修正,或需求已经非常明确且范围自洽的小改动。

分阶段工作流

Spec-driven development 分为四个阶段。当前阶段没有通过验证前,不要进入下一个阶段。

SPECIFY ──→ PLAN ──→ TASKS ──→ IMPLEMENT
   │          │        │          │
   ▼          ▼        ▼          ▼
 Human      Human    Human      Human
 reviews    reviews  reviews    reviews

阶段 1:明确规格(Specify)

从高层愿景开始。持续向人类提出澄清问题,直到需求足够具体。

立刻暴露假设。 在写任何 spec 内容之前,先列出你当前的假设:

我当前的假设:
1. 这是一个 Web 应用,不是原生移动端
2. 认证使用基于 session 的 cookie,而不是 JWT
3. 数据库是 PostgreSQL(基于现有 Prisma schema 推断)
4. 目标仅为现代浏览器,不考虑 IE11
→ 如果不对请现在纠正,否则我会按这些继续。

不要悄悄补齐有歧义的需求。Spec 的全部价值,就是在代码写下去之前先暴露误解,而假设正是最危险的误解形式。

写一份覆盖以下六个核心区域的 spec 文档:

  1. Objective:我们要做什么,为什么做?用户是谁?成功的标准是什么?

  2. Commands:给出完整可执行命令和参数,而不是只写工具名。

    Build: npm run build
    Test: npm test -- --coverage
    Lint: npm run lint --fix
    Dev: npm run dev
    
  3. Project Structure:源码在哪里、测试在哪里、文档放哪里。

    src/           → 应用源码
    src/components → React 组件
    src/lib        → 共享工具
    tests/         → 单元与集成测试
    e2e/           → 端到端测试
    docs/          → 文档
    
  4. Code Style:一个真实代码片段,比三段文字描述更有用。包括命名约定、格式规则,以及好的输出示例。

  5. Testing Strategy:使用什么框架,测试放在哪里,覆盖率预期如何,不同关注点分别用哪一层测试。

  6. Boundaries:三层边界系统:

    • Always do: 提交前跑测试、遵循命名规范、做输入校验
    • Ask first: 改数据库 schema、加依赖、改 CI 配置
    • Never do: 提交 secrets、编辑 vendor 目录、未经批准删除失败测试

Spec 模板:

# Spec: [项目/功能名称]

## Objective
[我们要构建什么、为什么。用户故事或验收标准。]

## Tech Stack
[框架、语言、带版本的关键依赖]

## Commands
[Build、test、lint、dev 的完整命令]

## Project Structure
[目录结构及说明]

## Code Style
[示例片段 + 关键约定]

## Testing Strategy
[框架、测试位置、覆盖要求、测试层级]

## Boundaries
- Always: [...]
- Ask first: [...]
- Never: [...]

## Success Criteria
[如何判断完成,必须是具体且可测试的条件]

## Open Questions
[任何仍需人类确认的未决问题]

把模糊指令改写成成功标准。 当接收到模糊需求时,把它翻译成明确条件:

原始需求:"让 dashboard 更快"

改写后的成功标准:
- Dashboard 的 LCP 在 4G 网络下 < 2.5s
- 初始数据加载在 < 500ms 内完成
- 加载期间没有布局偏移(CLS < 0.1)
→ 这些目标对吗?

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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. 3d ago First seen · 201 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A a6aac3ddf29a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository 233i/agent-skills (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,966 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to spec-driven-development, differing in 192 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes.

obra/superpowers · 21 tokens

brainstorming

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

obra/superpowers · 37 tokens

auto-perf-optimize

Run agent-driven VS Code performance or memory investigations. Use when asked to launch Code OSS, automate a VS Code scenario, run the Chat memory smoke runner, capture renderer heap snapshots, take workflow screenshots, compare run summaries, or drive a repeatable scenario before heap-snapshot analysis.

microsoft/vscode · 62 tokens

chat-perf

Run chat perf benchmarks and memory leak checks against the local dev build or any published VS Code version. Use when investigating chat rendering regressions, validating perf-sensitive changes to chat UI, or checking for memory leaks in the chat response pipeline.

microsoft/vscode · 51 tokens

chat-pet-sprite-creation

Use when creating or changing VS Code chat pet sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye treatments, Stable/Insiders variants, or pet transitions under src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/media/chatPet.

microsoft/vscode · 53 tokens

cpu-profile-analysis

Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, comparing code paths, finding bottlenecks, analyzing timeToRequest, understanding call trees from sampling profiler data, analyzing layout/paint/rendering, investigating…

microsoft/vscode · 71 tokens