spec-governance

spec-governance is a skill for Claude Code from Arch1eSUN/Arcgentic. It costs 31 tokens per session (219 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for OpenSpec-style change documents: proposal, design, task list, and detailed specification files. OpenSpec is a format for describing planned software changes before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate change folders, count finished tasks, check archive readiness, and transfer proposal, design, task, and specification facts into planning and audit records.
Why use it?
It shows whether the required planning documents and tasks are complete and whether a change is ready to archive, without relying on the OpenSpec command-line tool.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the arcgentic plugin — 18 skills, 9 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to validate change folders, count finished tasks, check archive readiness, and transfer proposal, design, task, and specification facts into planning and audit records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arch1esun/arcgentic/spec-governance
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 Arch1eSUN/Arcgentic --skill spec-governance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Arch1eSUN/Arcgentic

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install arcgentic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 9 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 219 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 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 $0.00031 $0.00219
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00110
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00022

Measured 10d ago against content hash 58c940636110, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-governance 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/spec-governance/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

spec-governance

Validates OpenSpec-style change artifacts as inputs to arcgentic planning, development, and audit.

Workflow

  1. Check that the change directory has proposal.md, design.md, tasks.md, and specs/**/*.md.

  2. Count complete and incomplete tasks.

  3. Validate archive readiness without moving files:

    arcgentic spec-governance status openspec/changes/<change>
    arcgentic spec-governance validate openspec/changes/<change>
    arcgentic spec-governance archive openspec/changes/<change>
    
  4. Map proposal/design/tasks/spec facts into handoff and audit facts.

Boundaries

  • V1 archive is validate-only.
  • Do not add an OpenSpec npm dependency.
  • Do not replace arcgentic's state machine with OpenSpec states.
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 · 31 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 58c940636110

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec-governance is a skill published in the GitHub repository Arch1eSUN/Arcgentic (287 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 219 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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