spec-validate

A specification checker that reviews a main feature plan and its smaller task documents using several independent reviewers and an expert review. It applies important corrections directly to those files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review feature specifications, compare findings across reviewers, fix important issues, and leave a validation log showing what was found and changed.
Why use it?
It helps catch conflicting, missing, or impractical requirements before implementation, without waiting for someone to approve each correction.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,426 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00064 $0.02426
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01213
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00485
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00243

Measured 3d ago against content hash efc8c261e7d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

spec-validate scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

1. **Discover Available Experts** — Use `ls .claude/skills/ | grep expert` (do not use Glob, as it may not resolve symlinks).
skills/sdd/spec-validate/SKILL.md · 252 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 252 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec Validate

Validate a mainspec and its slices using parallel foreground subagents for high-confidence issue detection, then apply the impactful findings as fixes directly to the spec files. Agent-first: no human-in-the-loop. Invoked headless by the harness dispatcher, walks the consensus → classify → fix → sentinel protocol, and exits.

Invocation Contract

Invoked by the dispatcher as: claude -p "/spec-validate <feature>", run from inside the feature worktree (the dispatcher cds into it — there is no print-mode --cwd flag).

Single argument: <feature> — kebab-case feature slug.

Inputs read from disk (paths relative to cwd):

  • specs/<feature>/mainspec.md
  • specs/<feature>/slices/*.md
  • The codebase (subagents ground findings in actual code).

Outputs to disk:

  • Edits to specs/<feature>/mainspec.md and/or specs/<feature>/slices/*.md for impactful findings.
  • specs/<feature>/validation-log.md — audit trail: all consensus findings, classification (impactful vs. nitpick), and which fixes were applied. For observability; not load-bearing for the dispatcher.
  • specs/<feature>/.validated (empty sentinel).

Completion protocol (in order):

  1. Run 3-subagent consensus + expert review (Phases 1–2 below).
  2. Classify each 3/3 and 2/3 finding as impactful or nitpick (Phase 3).
  3. For each impactful finding: edit the affected mainspec or slice file in place.
  4. Write specs/<feature>/validation-log.md capturing every finding, classification, and what was changed.
  5. git add all changes (edited spec files + validation-log.md), commit, push.
  6. touch specs/<feature>/.validated.
  7. git add the sentinel, commit, push.

The sentinel is the final commit-and-push action. The dispatcher uses only the sentinel to advance to implementation.

Idempotency:

  • If specs/<feature>/.validated already exists, exit immediately.
  • If specs/<feature>/mainspec.md does not exist, exit silently — the dispatcher's state machine should not have fired this skill yet; planning has not completed.
  • If validation-log.md exists but the sentinel does not (crash mid-write), the dispatcher's worktree wipe will discard any uncommitted log changes, so we re-run validation from scratch. Acceptable cost.

Read the full file on GitHub · 252 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. 3d ago First seen · 252 lines · 64 tokens per session scan B efc8c261e7d8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec-validate is a skill published in the GitHub repository capitalone/context-specs (41 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 2,426 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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