speckit-chore-assess

speckit-chore-assess is a skill for Claude Code from arrrrny/zuraffa. It costs 25 tokens per session (3,155 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A planning check for a maintenance chore, meaning non-feature work such as refactoring, dependency updates, configuration cleanup, or branding changes. It examines the codebase and project rules and writes an assessment file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess maintenance tasks and create the assessment consumed by the later implementation and pull-request steps.
Why use it?
It clarifies the affected files, scope, risk, and proposed approach before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to assess maintenance tasks and create the assessment consumed by the later implementation and pull-request steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arrrrny/zuraffa/speckit-chore-assess
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 arrrrny/zuraffa --skill speckit-chore-assess
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arrrrny/zuraffa

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,155 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00025 $0.03155
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01577
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00631
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00315

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0394253f41ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

speckit-chore-assess scanned grade C 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 6d 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.

Cloud metadata endpointhighServer-side request forgery

One request to 169.254.169.254 can return temporary IAM credentials.

- Cloud instance metadata endpoints: `169.254.169.254`, `metadata.google.internal`, `100.100.100.200`, `metadata.azure.com`.
.agents/skills/speckit-chore-assess/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Assess Chore

Scope a maintenance chore against the current codebase and the project constitution: understand what needs to change, locate the affected paths, judge scope and risk, and propose an approach. The output is a single assessment file at .specify/chores/<slug>/assessment.md that downstream commands (/speckit-chore-implement, /speckit-chore-pr) consume.

A chore is work that is neither a bug (something broken) nor a feature (new user-facing capability): refactors, dependency bumps, asset swaps, config cleanups, tooling changes, logo/branding updates, and similar maintenance. It lives in the same Spec Kit ecosystem as features and bugs — it is scoped, tracked, and recorded — but it is classified on its own so triage and reporting stay honest.

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

The user input contains the chore description and (optionally) a slug. Treat it as one of:

  1. Pasted text — a copy of an issue, a chat message, a bullet, or a freeform description.
  2. A URL — a link to a GitHub/GitLab issue, a discussion, a design doc, or any web page describing the chore. Fetch and read the page content before proceeding.
  3. A mix — text plus a URL for additional context.
  4. An issue flagissue / --issue (or issue=true / issue=false). When present and truthy, this command also files a GitHub issue for the chore after writing the assessment (the "report" phase). See Optional — file the GitHub issue below.

If both a URL and text are present, fetch the URL and merge its content with the pasted text when forming the chore summary.

Slug Resolution

Each chore gets its own directory under .specify/chores/<slug>/. Resolve the slug in this order:

  1. User-provided slug: If the user explicitly passes a slug (e.g., slug=logo-swap, --slug logo-swap, or just an obvious slug-like token), use it verbatim after normalization (lowercase, hyphen-separated, no spaces, no special characters other than - and digits). Preserve the shape the user asked for — do not append timestamps or numbers.
  2. Interactive mode (a human is driving): If no slug was provided, ask the user for one and wait for the answer before continuing. Suggest a 2–4 word kebab-case candidate derived from the chore summary as a default.
  3. Automated / non-interactive mode (no human to ask): Generate a concise slug yourself from the chore summary (2–4 kebab-case words, e.g. logo-swap). The generated slug MUST produce a unique directory — if .specify/chores/<slug>/ already exists, append the shortest disambiguating suffix needed (-2, -3, …) or a short ISO-style date (-20260605) to make it unique. Never overwrite an existing chore directory.

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 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. 7d ago Changed · -201 lines · -25 tokens per session scan C → A 724d8145a13e
  2. 11d ago First seen · 202 lines · 25 tokens per session scan C 0394253f41ac

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speckit-chore-assess is a skill published in the GitHub repository arrrrny/zuraffa (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 3,155 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (cloud metadata endpoint). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.