spec-reporting

A specification-writing and validation skill that turns existing source code into structured Markdown documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document a system's purpose, inputs, outputs, side effects, and tests, then validate the files with the provided checker.
Why use it?
It helps teams produce consistent technical documentation and catch missing or malformed sections before publication or merge.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/alten-group/coding-pal/spec-reporting
Any agent
npx skills add ALTEN-group/coding-pal --skill spec-reporting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ALTEN-group/coding-pal

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 346 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 $0.00064 $0.00346
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00173
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00035

Measured 2d ago against content hash c891aa550c81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-reporting 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/spec-docs.mjs, scripts/spec-docs.test.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/spec-reporting/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Spec Reporting

Produce specification Markdown that a script can validate.

When to Use This Skill

  • An agent must extract specifications from source into files.
  • A workflow must reject malformed spec Markdown before merge or publication.

Path resolution

Resolve references/ and scripts/ relative to this skill's install directory (the folder that contains this SKILL.md), not the consumer repository root or the current shell cwd.

Workflow

  1. Read references/spec-contract.md now — it is the only source for paths, headings, fields, and limits. Do not skip this step. What to read in the codebase is owned by the calling agent.
  2. Write Markdown files that follow that contract. Do not treat them as complete until the validator below has accepted them (or command execution is unavailable).
  3. When command execution is available, validate from this skill's directory. Pass the specs directory as --dir (consumer default docs/specs):
node scripts/spec-docs.mjs --dir /path/to/docs/specs

Treat a nonzero validator exit as invalid output and fix the files rather than ignoring the errors. Prompt compliance is advisory; the validator is the enforcement boundary.

Done When

  • The validator script accepts the spec directory without errors.
Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 35 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A c891aa550c81

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec-reporting is a skill published in the GitHub repository ALTEN-group/coding-pal (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 346 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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