implement-mainspec

implement-mainspec is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from capitalone/context-specs. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,978 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An implementation workflow that turns a main feature specification and its smaller task documents into code. It assigns each task to a separate coding agent in dependency order and commits each completed task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to implement all slices of a feature specification, commit the work on the feature branch, push the changes, and verify the project’s PRD test passes.
Why use it?
It organizes a large feature build so dependent tasks are completed in the right sequence and the result is checked by the project’s end-to-end test.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to implement all slices of a feature specification, commit the work on the feature branch, push the changes, and verify the project’s PRD test passes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/capitalone/context-specs/implement-mainspec
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add capitalone/context-specs --skill implement-mainspec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/capitalone/context-specs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,978 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: 7 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 3
    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.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 8
    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.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 88
    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.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 140
    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.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 32
    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.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 76
    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.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 74
    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 $0.00066 $0.01978
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00791
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00198

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ec5aa58868ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implement-mainspec 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 1mo 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/sdd/implement-mainspec/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Implement Mainspec

Implements all slices from a mainspec in dependency order, sequentially. Agent-first: invoked headless by the harness dispatcher, runs end-to-end with no approval gates, exits.

Invocation Contract

Invoked by the dispatcher as: claude -p "/implement-mainspec <feature>", run from inside the feature worktree (the dispatcher cds into it).

Single argument: <feature> — kebab-case feature slug. The mainspec path is specs/<feature>/mainspec.md relative to cwd.

Inputs read from disk (paths relative to cwd):

  • specs/<feature>/mainspec.md
  • specs/<feature>/slices/*.md
  • Current feature/<feature> branch state.

Outputs to disk / remote:

  • All implementation code committed and pushed on feature/<feature>, one commit per slice.

No sentinel. The dispatcher's success signal for this step is ./prds/<feature>/run-prd-test.sh exits 0, verified externally. The final slice's Success Criteria encodes this into a slice so completing all slices implies the PRD test passes. We do not write a sentinel file — the dispatcher records the green result in specs/<feature>/.prd-passed once the runner first exits 0; this skill neither writes nor reads that file.

Idempotency:

  • On every invocation, inspect feature/<feature> git history. Determine which slices are already committed (look for commits like Implement slice <n>: <name>).
  • The orchestrator reads the mainspec's Slice Dependency Map inline to plan its execution order.
  • Work only on remaining slices.
  • If all slices appear committed, exit cleanly. The dispatcher will re-verify the PRD test externally.

No approval gates anywhere. No AskUserQuestion for plan approval, default-branch warning, or any other decision. Every decision is deterministic or deferred to the next dispatcher tick.

Workflow Overview

Phase 1: Parse & Resume — Read mainspec Slice Dependency Map, determine execution order, inspect feature/<feature> for already-committed slices
Phase 2: Implement — Delegate each remaining slice to slice-implementer subagent (foreground). Orchestrator handles git directly on feature/<feature>.
Phase 3: Log — Log final status of this invocation to stdout for observability

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago First seen · 160 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A ec5aa58868ab

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implement-mainspec is a skill published in the GitHub repository capitalone/context-specs (44 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,978 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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