groove-work-spec

groove-work-spec is a skill for Claude Code from andreadellacorte/groove. It costs 29 tokens per session (429 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating a written plan for a software change. The plan covers the goal, technical decisions, ordered implementation steps, edge cases, and how to split larger work into smaller parts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Researching a codebase, interviewing stakeholders about decisions and testing, writing one or more specs, and organizing complex work into parent and child plans.
Why use it?
It helps turn an unclear coding task into an agreed scope that developers can build and verify.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Researching a codebase, interviewing stakeholders about decisions and testing, writing one or more specs, and organizing complex work into parent and child plans.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/andreadellacorte/groove/groove-work-spec
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.

Any agent
npx skills add andreadellacorte/groove --skill groove-work-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/andreadellacorte/groove

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 429 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 10 Mar 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00029 $0.00429
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00215
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 10d ago against content hash f108350b93bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

groove-work-spec 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 10d 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.

skills/groove-work-spec/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

groove-work-spec

Use $ARGUMENTS as the spec topic if provided.

Outcome

A complete outcome spec that defines what to build and how to verify it — the agent determines the procedure.

Acceptance Criteria

Spec file contains:

  • Overview: What to build and why
  • Decisions: Key technical choices with rationale
  • Implementation Steps: Concrete, ordered steps
  • Edge Cases: Error handling, boundary conditions

Constraints

  • Sanitize topic for use as filename — strip path separators, special characters, and traversal patterns (../)
  • Specs directory is always .groove/memory/specs/
  • Ensure the specs directory exists (create if missing)
  • Research codebase first (use Explore agent)
  • Interview user for decisions, edge cases, testing approach, scope
  • Assess scope: if the work has natural seams (independent components, sequential phases, separable concerns), recommend splitting into a parent spec with child specs
    • Parent spec: Overview of the full feature, links to child specs, execution order if sequential
    • Child specs: Each self-contained with its own Overview, Decisions, Steps, Edge Cases
    • Naming: <topic>.md for single specs, <topic>/index.md + <topic>/01-<part>.md for split specs
    • User decides: Present the split recommendation with rationale, user confirms or overrides
  • Write spec in isolated context (use general-purpose agent)
  • Verify all required sections exist before completing
  • Reference actual codebase patterns, not generic advice

Quality Signals

  • Decisions reference real code patterns
  • Steps include actual file paths and function names
  • Edge cases reflect discovered constraints
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. 10d ago First seen · 47 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A f108350b93bf

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groove-work-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository andreadellacorte/groove (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 429 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.

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