smith-new

A guided workflow for starting a new software feature. It gathers requirements through conversation, creates a plan and questions, then passes the work to an automated build process.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when beginning a feature from scratch or from an existing conversation. It helps collect requirements, record project decisions, plan the work, and start the build.
Why use it?
It helps turn an informal feature idea into written requirements and an implementation plan before coding begins. This reduces uncertainty about what should be built.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,636 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00029 $0.06636
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.03318
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.01327
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00664

Measured 2d ago against content hash e28160c730af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

smith-new 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 2d 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.

skills/smith-new/SKILL.md · 527 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 527 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SpecKit New Feature Workflow

This is the primary entry point for all new features. It combines requirements gathering, planning, and a questions gate into a single conversational flow, then hands off to autonomous execution.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

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 to the session log using this format:

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

**User Request:**
> <verbatim user message that triggered this action — capture the exact words the user typed, including any conversation context that led to the request. For natural language triggers, capture the trigger message. For explicit /smith-new invocations, capture $ARGUMENTS.>

**Synthesized Input:** <brief summary of what's being built>
**Outcome:** <what happened>
**Artifacts:** <files created/modified>
**Systems affected:** <system IDs>

Log at these points:

  1. On invocation — capture the verbatim user request AND the synthesized feature description
  2. After system detection — which primary system was identified, which other systems are affected
  3. After spec creation — path to created spec folder and spec.md
  4. After questions generated — how many questions, path to questions file
  5. After questions answered — summary of each answer (topic + decision, not full text)
  6. On handoff to build — note that /smith-build autonomous phase was triggered

Subagent Invocation Logging

Immediately before every Agent tool call in this workflow, append a block to the session log. The Agent tool's return value does not expose subagent_type or model to the parent, so this is the only place that information can be captured.

### [HH:MM:SS] Subagent invoked: <description>

**Type:** <subagent_type or "general">
**Model:** <model override passed to Agent, or "inherited" if none>

Read the full file on GitHub · 527 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. 2d ago First seen · 527 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A e28160c730af

Subscribe to this mod's changes

smith-new is a skill published in the GitHub repository ATTCKDigital/smith (52 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 6,636 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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