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.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ariel-frischer/autospec/main/.agents/skills/autospec-specify/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ariel-frischer/autospecWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ariel-frischer/autospec/autospec-specify)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ariel-frischer/autospec/autospec-specify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ariel-frischer/autospec/autospec-specify/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ariel-frischer/autospec/autospec-specify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ariel-frischer/autospec/autospec-specify.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Excessive Agency · line 25 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00014 | $0.02227 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00007 | $0.01113 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00003 | $0.00445 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00223 |
Grade A, and why
autospec-specify scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
autospec-specify
This Agent Skill is generated from autospec.specify. When the user invokes "$autospec-specify" or "/autospec.specify", load and follow these instructions directly. Treat the text after the skill or command name as "$ARGUMENTS". Do not route back through "autospec specify"; 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
The text the user typed after $autospec-specify in the triggering message is the feature description. Assume you always have it available in this conversation even if $ARGUMENTS appears literally below. Do not ask the user to repeat it unless they provided an empty command.
Given that feature description, do this:
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Generate a concise short name (2-4 words) for the branch:
- Analyze the feature description and extract the most meaningful keywords
- Create a 2-4 word short name that captures the essence of the feature
- Use action-noun format when possible (e.g., "add-user-auth", "fix-payment-bug")
- Preserve technical terms and acronyms (OAuth2, API, JWT, etc.)
- Keep it concise but descriptive enough to understand the feature at a glance
- Examples:
- "I want to add user authentication" → "user-auth"
- "Implement OAuth2 integration for the API" → "oauth2-api-integration"
- "Create a dashboard for analytics" → "analytics-dashboard"
- "Fix payment processing timeout bug" → "fix-payment-timeout"
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Create feature branch and directory: Run the Go command with your generated short-name:
autospec new-feature --json --short-name "<short-name>" "$ARGUMENTS"Parse the JSON output for:
BRANCH_NAME: The full branch name (e.g., "008-user-auth")SPEC_FILE: Path to the spec file (ignore - we'll create spec.yaml instead)FEATURE_NUM: The feature numberAUTOSPEC_VERSION: The autospec version (for _meta section)CREATED_DATE: ISO 8601 timestamp (for _meta section)
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 228 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 88fc97306329
autospec-specify is a skill published in the GitHub repository ariel-frischer/autospec (141 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 2,227 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.
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