spec-updater

spec-updater is a skill for Claude Code from bholzer/claude-cairn-builder. It costs 87 tokens per session (2,162 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A skill for changing an app's feature scope during an ongoing build by editing appspec.xml. It keeps the rule that features may move only from false to true and records the change in a log.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding a feature, removing one, or changing the build to include work such as a nightly batch job after development has started.
Why use it?
It allows approved scope changes without breaking the build's feature-state rule or losing a record of what changed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the cairn-builder plugin — 2 skills, 1 command, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when adding a feature, removing one, or changing the build to include work such as a nightly batch job after development has started.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bholzer/claude-cairn-builder/spec-updater
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 bholzer/claude-cairn-builder --skill spec-updater
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bholzer/claude-cairn-builder

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cairn-builder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command, 3 agents.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,162 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 unknown 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 $0.00087 $0.02162
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01081
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00432
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00216

Measured 9d ago against content hash 77619bb1c0df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-updater 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 9d 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/spec-updater/SKILL.md · 229 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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. 9d ago First seen · 229 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 77619bb1c0df

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spec-updater is a skill published in the GitHub repository bholzer/claude-cairn-builder (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 2,162 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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