implement-slice

implement-slice is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from capitalone/context-specs. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,070 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An agent-only workflow for implementing one small, defined piece of a larger feature, including unit tests and a review step called Reflect.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a parent implementation process assigns one slice of work to a subagent. It produces code and tests in the working directory and reports success or failure without committing changes.
Why use it?
It keeps each change focused and checks the result before the parent workflow handles commits and delivery. TDD-related test work is included, but the input does not require strict test-first development.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when a parent implementation process assigns one slice of work to a subagent. It produces code and tests in the working directory and reports success or failure without committing changes.

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

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,070 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: 1 finding, 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 Agent Snooping · line 78
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00042 $0.01070
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00428
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00107

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2d87b03fcc3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implement-slice 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-slice/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Implement Slice

Executes a single slice with unit tests and a post-implementation Reflect step. Agent-first: invoked by the slice-implementer subagent under the parent orchestrator (implement-mainspec). No human prompts.

Invocation Contract

This skill is invoked by the slice-implementer subagent, not directly by the harness dispatcher. The subagent's prompt provides:

Inputs:

  • slice_path — absolute path to the slice file (may be outside the working directory).
  • working_directory — absolute path to the feature branch checkout (repo root).

Outputs (uncommitted, in the working directory):

  • Implemented code matching the slice's specification.
  • Unit tests created/updated.
  • Optional: edits under .claude/skills/expert/references/ if Reflect produced a high-bar update.

The parent orchestrator (implement-mainspec) handles git (add, commit, push) after this skill exits. Do NOT commit, do NOT run git operations, do NOT create PRs.

Result reporting (to the calling subagent):

  • SUCCESS: list key files changed, tests passing, Reflect outcome (no-op | add | edit | delete).
  • FAILURE: describe what went wrong. Reasons include: test_failure (unit tests red), implementation_blocked (spec contradicts the codebase).

Workflow

  1. Read slice - Load the entire slice file into context.
  2. Create TODO list - Three items:
    • {slice-name} - Implement
    • {slice-name} - Unit Tests
    • {slice-name} - Reflect
  3. Implement - Mark in_progress, implement all code specified in the slice.
  4. Unit tests - Create/update unit tests for the implemented functionality. All tests must pass before proceeding.
  5. Reflect - See the Reflection Protocol below.
  6. Complete - Mark all TODOs complete, stop.

The working directory is the feature branch checkout. There should be no prior partial state to resume from — work as if the slate is clean.

Reflection Protocol

Run only after Implement + Unit Tests are green.

Step A — Load long-term memory

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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. 1mo ago First seen · 99 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 2d87b03fcc3c

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implement-slice is a skill published in the GitHub repository capitalone/context-specs (44 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,070 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.