autospec: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/autospec-clarify/SKILL.md

autospec-clarify is a skill for Claude Code from ariel-frischer/autospec. It costs 22 tokens per session (1,852 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specification review tool that finds unclear or missing decisions and records the answers in a YAML specification file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect an active feature specification, identify ambiguity, and add clarifications before planning.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork and rework by resolving open questions before the project is planned.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); $skill-name invocation.

This is ariel-frischer/autospec's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on autospec itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything autospec configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ariel-frischer/autospec. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ariel-frischer/autospec/main/.agents/skills/autospec-clarify/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ariel-frischer/autospec

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,852 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 $0.00022 $0.01852
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00926
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00370
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00185

Measured 12d ago against content hash c240b1afbb2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autospec-clarify 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 12d 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.

.agents/skills/autospec-clarify/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

autospec-clarify

This Agent Skill is generated from autospec.clarify. When the user invokes "$autospec-clarify" or "/autospec.clarify", load and follow these instructions directly. Treat the text after the skill or command name as "$ARGUMENTS". Do not route back through "autospec clarify"; this skill is the prompt for the stage.

Project specs directory: ./specs

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

You MUST consider the user input before proceeding (if not empty).

Outline

Goal: Detect and reduce ambiguity or missing decision points in the active feature specification and record the clarifications directly in the spec.yaml file.

Note: This clarification workflow should run BEFORE $autospec-plan. If the user explicitly states they are skipping clarification (e.g., exploratory spike), you may proceed, but must warn that downstream rework risk increases.

Pre-computed Context

The following paths have been pre-computed and are available for use:

  • FEATURE_DIR: {{.FeatureDir}}
  • FEATURE_SPEC: {{.FeatureSpec}}
  1. Load and analyze the spec file at {{.FeatureSpec}}. Perform a structured ambiguity & coverage scan using this taxonomy. For each category, mark status: Clear / Partial / Missing.

    Functional Scope & Behavior:

    • Core user goals & success criteria
    • Explicit out-of-scope declarations
    • User roles / personas differentiation

    Domain & Data Model:

    • Entities, attributes, relationships
    • Identity & uniqueness rules
    • Lifecycle/state transitions
    • Data volume / scale assumptions

    Interaction & UX Flow:

    • Critical user journeys / sequences
    • Error/empty/loading states
    • Accessibility or localization notes

    Non-Functional Quality Attributes:

    • Performance (latency, throughput targets)
    • Scalability (horizontal/vertical, limits)
    • Reliability & availability (uptime, recovery expectations)
    • Observability (logging, metrics, tracing signals)
    • Security & privacy (authN/Z, data protection, threat assumptions)
    • Compliance / regulatory constraints (if any)

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 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. 12d ago First seen · 182 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A c240b1afbb2c

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autospec-clarify is a skill published in the GitHub repository ariel-frischer/autospec (141 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,852 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 2026-08-30.