specs

specs is a skill for Claude Code from bdfinst/agentic-dev-team. It costs 89 tokens per session (3,263 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collaborative workflow for writing a change's intent, architecture notes, and acceptance criteria before implementation begins. Acceptance criteria are the conditions that determine whether the finished change is correct.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a new feature or change that needs shared decisions about behavior, structure, or scope.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear decisions early, so the developer and agent can agree on the goal and boundaries before code is built. It stops at the planning handoff rather than implementing the change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the dev-team plugin — 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting a new feature or change that needs shared decisions about behavior, structure, or scope.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add bdfinst/agentic-dev-team
Claude Code
/plugin install dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,263 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.
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 $0.00089 $0.03263
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.01305
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00653
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00326

Measured 14d ago against content hash e1bc058b3d15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

specs 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 14d 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/dev-team/skills/specs/SKILL.md · 241 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent-Assisted Specification

Role: orchestrator. This command produces specification artifacts and gates progression to /plan — it does not write implementation code, author per-slice Gherkin scenarios, or begin building.

Positioning — what this skill is for

This skill's value is resolving ambiguity with a human before build begins (Rec 1, docs/experiments/RECOMMENDATIONS.md). No downstream workflow recovers information the spec never stated — under vague specs every workflow arm scored 0% on acceptance tests probing an omitted decision. The Ambiguity Resolution Protocol below is the mechanism: it forces every gap to be either resolved by a human or documented as inferable before implementation starts.

What this skill is not for: edge-case synthesis. Run to completion, the full /specs→/plan→/build pipeline's explicit acceptance-criteria synthesis does not out-perform TDD's failing-test discipline at surfacing unstated edge cases (25% vs. 33% pooled EDGE pass — Experiment 03, reported in docs/experiments/02-final-results.md). The two have different failure modes and both are worth keeping: /specs catches ambiguity a human must resolve; the build cadence's per-behavior tests catch edge cases the spec implies but never enumerates.

Step 0 — Select the mode

/specs runs in one of two modes, chosen from the shape of the argument — there is no flag, so every existing /specs "<description>" invocation is unaffected. Announce the selected mode and why before any work begins.

Argument Mode
Resolves to a readable .md/.txt/.pdf, or a fetchable GitHub issue URL validate — critique a document we did not write
Looks like a path or issue URL (a path separator, one of those extensions, or a GitHub issue URL shape) but does not resolve or cannot be fetched refuse — see below
Resembles neither authoring — today's collaboration loop, unchanged

A path-like argument that does not resolve is never reinterpreted as prose. Silently feeding a mistyped path into the authoring loop turns a typo into a spec seeded from the literal path string, which the author may not notice for a long time. Refuse instead, naming the unresolved path or the fetch failure (private, deleted, unauthenticated, network).

Read the full file on GitHub · 241 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 14d ago Changed · +4 lines e1bc058b3d15
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -7 lines c1730e35a07c
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 244 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 22b11d953d9f

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specs is a skill published in the GitHub repository bdfinst/agentic-dev-team (295 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 3,263 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.