implement-mainspec

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

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/capitalone/context-specs/implement-mainspec
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.

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. 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 $0.00066 $0.01978
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00989
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00198

Measured 2d ago against content hash ec5aa58868ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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/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. 2d ago First seen · 160 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A ec5aa58868ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

implement-mainspec is a skill published in the GitHub repository capitalone/context-specs (41 stars, last pushed 8d 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. 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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