project-specification

project-specification is a skill for Claude Code from athola/claude-night-market. It costs 25 tokens per session (886 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for turning a project brief into a testable specification with user stories and acceptance criteria, the conditions that define when work is complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after brainstorming to define scope, describe user needs, write acceptance criteria, and plan how the result will be validated.
Why use it?
It reduces unclear requirements and gives implementation and testing a shared definition of success.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the attune plugin — 14 skills, 11 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it after brainstorming to define scope, describe user needs, write acceptance criteria, and plan how the result will be validated.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/athola/claude-night-market/project-specification
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 athola/claude-night-market --skill project-specification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/claude-night-market

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install attune, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 11 commands, 2 agents.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for project-specification

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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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 886 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, 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 6
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 80
    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.
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 $0.00025 $0.00886
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00443
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00089

Measured 7d ago against content hash d2fc1a596023, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-specification 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 7d 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.

plugins/attune/skills/project-specification/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Delegation

For detailed specification writing workflows, this skill delegates to spec-kit:spec-writing as the canonical implementation. Use this skill for quick specification needs; use spec-kit for thorough specification documents.

When To Use

  • After brainstorming phase completes
  • Have project brief but need detailed requirements
  • Need testable acceptance criteria for implementation
  • Planning validation and testing strategy
  • Translating business requirements into technical specs
  • Defining scope boundaries and out-of-scope items

When NOT To Use

  • Still exploring problem space (use Skill(attune:project-brainstorming) instead)
  • Already have detailed specification (use Skill(attune:project-planning) instead)
  • Refining existing implementation (use code review skills)
  • Making strategic decisions (use Skill(attune:war-room) for complex choices)

Integration

With spec-kit:

  • Delegates to Skill(spec-kit:spec-writing) for methodology
  • Uses spec-kit templates and validation
  • Enables clarification workflow

Without spec-kit:

  • Standalone specification framework
  • Requirement templates
  • Acceptance criteria patterns

Record the Tradeoff (decision journal)

If the specification settled a design decision with real alternatives (a chosen data model, an interface boundary, a constraint accepted), record it to docs/tradeoffs.md before continuing (draft and confirm):

  • If leyline is installed, invoke Skill(leyline:decision-journal) and append a tradeoff entry (the decision, the options weighed, and what was sacrificed; set phase to specify). Show the draft; append on confirmation.
  • Fallback (leyline absent): append to docs/tradeoffs.md using the in-file ENTRY TEMPLATE; assign the next TR-NNN id.

Post-Completion: Workflow Continuation (REQUIRED)

Automatic Trigger: After Quality Checks pass and docs/specification.md is saved, MUST auto-invoke the next phase.

When continuation is invoked:

  1. Verify docs/specification.md exists and is non-empty
  2. Display checkpoint message to user:
    Specification complete. Saved to docs/specification.md.
    Proceeding to planning phase...
    
  3. Invoke next phase:
    Skill(attune:project-planning)
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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 First seen · 106 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A d2fc1a596023

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-specification is a skill published in the GitHub repository athola/claude-night-market (337 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 886 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 2026-09-03.

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