smith-checklist

A tool that creates a tailored checklist for a software feature from its requirements. The checklist acts like a set of questions for checking whether the feature is fully specified and built correctly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check a feature’s specification and implementation requirements. It is for generating review items during Smith’s new-feature, bug-fix, debugging, or build workflows.
Why use it?
It helps reveal missing requirements, unclear behavior, and quality gaps before implementation is finished. It must be used inside an active feature or bug-fix workflow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/attckdigital/smith/smith-checklist
Any agent
npx skills add ATTCKDigital/smith --skill smith-checklist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ATTCKDigital/smith

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,979 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00017 $0.03979
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01989
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00796
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00398

Measured 3d ago against content hash f4d6db294404, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

smith-checklist 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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to speckit-checklist — 116 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/smith-checklist/SKILL.md · 321 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 321 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow requirement (Smith 20+): This skill must be invoked from inside an active top-level workflow (/smith-new, /smith-bugfix, /smith-debug, /smith-build). The workflow-gate hook will block standalone invocation. To use this skill standalone, start a top-level workflow first.

Vault Logging

Throughout this action, log significant events to the vault session log. Read the session log path from .smith/vault/.current-session. If the file is missing or the vault is not initialized, skip all logging silently.

Append entries using this format:

### [HH:MM:SS] /smith-checklist <event>

**User Request:**
> <verbatim user message that triggered this action>

**Synthesized Input:** <brief summary>
**Outcome:** <what happened>
**Artifacts:** <files created>
**Systems affected:** <system IDs>

Log at these points:

  1. On invocation — what is being checked (feature name, domain)
  2. After checklist generated — path to checklist file, number of items, summary of quality findings
  3. Overall assessment — pass/fail, count of issues found

Checklist Purpose: "Unit Tests for English"

CRITICAL CONCEPT: Checklists are UNIT TESTS FOR REQUIREMENTS WRITING - they validate the quality, clarity, and completeness of requirements in a given domain.

NOT for verification/testing:

  • ❌ NOT "Verify the button clicks correctly"
  • ❌ NOT "Test error handling works"
  • ❌ NOT "Confirm the API returns 200"
  • ❌ NOT checking if code/implementation matches the spec

FOR requirements quality validation:

  • ✅ "Are visual hierarchy requirements defined for all card types?" (completeness)
  • ✅ "Is 'prominent display' quantified with specific sizing/positioning?" (clarity)
  • ✅ "Are hover state requirements consistent across all interactive elements?" (consistency)
  • ✅ "Are accessibility requirements defined for keyboard navigation?" (coverage)
  • ✅ "Does the spec define what happens when logo image fails to load?" (edge cases)

Metaphor: If your spec is code written in English, the checklist is its unit test suite. You're testing whether the requirements are well-written, complete, unambiguous, and ready for implementation - NOT whether the implementation works.

Read the full file on GitHub · 321 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. 3d ago First seen · 321 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A f4d6db294404

Subscribe to this mod's changes

smith-checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository ATTCKDigital/smith (52 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 3,979 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to speckit-checklist, differing in 116 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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