arn-code-feature-spec-teams

A feature-planning workflow in which specialist coding agents discuss, critique, and revise a proposal before producing its specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for complex features, significant user-interface work, or situations where several technical approaches need to be compared.
Why use it?
Multiple viewpoints can expose design and user-interface trade-offs that a single planning pass might miss.

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/appsvortex/arness/arn-code-feature-spec-teams
Any agent
npx skills add AppsVortex/arness --skill arn-code-feature-spec-teams
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AppsVortex/arness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,898 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00123 $0.04898
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.02449
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00980
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00490

Measured 2d ago against content hash 376af6efcaf4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

arn-code-feature-spec-teams scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

- Add to `~/.claude/settings.json` under `"env"`:
plugins/arn-code/skills/arn-code-feature-spec-teams/SKILL.md · 328 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 328 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arness Feature Spec Teams

Develop a feature idea through structured debate between specialist teammates — architects and UX experts — before synthesizing a specification. Uses Claude Code's experimental Agent Teams feature for direct inter-agent communication. Each teammate proposes, critiques, and revises independently, producing a richer spec than a single-agent approach.

Pipeline position:

arn-code-feature-spec-teams (team: propose -> critique -> revise -> resolve) -> /arn-code-plan

This is an alternative to arn-code-feature-spec (single-agent). Use this when:

  • The feature is complex enough to benefit from multiple perspectives
  • There is a significant UI/UX component that needs specialist advocacy
  • Multiple architectural approaches are viable and warrant debate
  • You want trade-offs and disagreements surfaced explicitly

Prerequisites

If no ## Arness section exists in the project's CLAUDE.md, inform the user: "Arness is not configured for this project yet. Run /arn-planning to get started — it will set everything up automatically." Do not proceed without it. For standard single-agent feature spec, use arn-code-feature-spec instead.

Limitations compared to arn-code-feature-spec:

  • XL feature decomposition is not supported. Use arn-code-feature-spec for features that need to be broken into sub-features.
  • Draft file management is not supported. If the session crashes, re-run the skill from the beginning.

Workflow

Step 1: Check Agent Teams Availability

Run via Bash: echo $CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS

If the variable is NOT set to "1": Inform the user: "This skill requires Claude Code's experimental Agent Teams feature."

Provide setup instructions:

  • Add to ~/.claude/settings.json under "env":
    "CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS": "1"
    
  • Or set the environment variable before running Claude Code:
    CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1 claude
    

Suggest the alternative: "You can use /arn-code-feature-spec instead, which uses a single architect agent and doesn't require Agent Teams."

Read the full file on GitHub · 328 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 328 lines · 123 tokens per session scan B 376af6efcaf4

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arn-code-feature-spec-teams is a skill published in the GitHub repository AppsVortex/arness (33 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 4,898 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.