spec-setup

spec-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow. It costs 15 tokens per session (6,094 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Initialize project-level state and configure specs via interactive questionnaire.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/catlog22/claude-code-workflow/spec-setup
Any agent
npx skills add catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow --skill spec-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,094 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00015 $0.06094
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.03047
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.01219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00609

Measured today against content hash f058c6c71745, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-setup 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 today.

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.

.codex/skills/spec-setup/SKILL.md · 679 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 679 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow Spec Setup Command

Overview

Initialize .workflow/project-tech.json and .ccw/specs/*.md with comprehensive project understanding by delegating analysis to cli-explore-agent, then interactively configure project guidelines through a multi-round questionnaire.

Dual File System:

  • project-tech.json: Auto-generated technical analysis (stack, architecture, components)
  • specs/*.md: User-maintained rules and constraints (created and populated interactively)

Design Principle: Questions are dynamically generated based on the project's tech stack, architecture, and patterns -- not generic boilerplate.

Note: This command may be called by other workflow commands. Upon completion, return immediately to continue the calling workflow without interrupting the task flow.

Usage

$spec-setup                 # Initialize (skip if exists)
$spec-setup --regenerate    # Force regeneration of project-tech.json
$spec-setup --skip-specs    # Initialize project-tech only, skip spec initialization and questionnaire
$spec-setup --reset         # Reset specs content before questionnaire

Execution Process

Input Parsing:
   |- Parse --regenerate flag -> regenerate = true | false
   |- Parse --skip-specs flag -> skipSpecs = true | false
   +- Parse --reset flag -> reset = true | false

Decision:
   |- BOTH_EXIST + no --regenerate + no --reset -> Exit: "Already initialized"
   |- EXISTS + --regenerate -> Backup existing -> Continue analysis
   |- EXISTS + --reset -> Reset specs, keep project-tech -> Skip to questionnaire
   +- NOT_FOUND -> Continue full flow

Full Flow:
   |- Step 1: Parse input and check existing state
   |- Step 2: Get project metadata (name, root)
   |- Step 3: Invoke cli-explore-agent (subagent)
   |   |- Structural scan (get_modules_by_depth.sh, find, wc)
   |   |- Semantic analysis (Gemini CLI)
   |   |- Synthesis and merge
   |   +- Write .workflow/project-tech.json
   |- Step 4: Initialize Spec System (if not --skip-specs)
   |   |- Check if specs/*.md exist
   |   |- If NOT_FOUND -> Run ccw spec init
   |   +- Run ccw spec rebuild
   |- Step 5: Multi-Round Interactive Questionnaire (if not --skip-specs)
   |   |- Check if guidelines already populated -> Ask: "Append / Reset / Cancel"
   |   |- Load project context from project-tech.json
   |   |- Round 1: Coding Conventions (coding_style, naming_patterns)
   |   |- Round 2: File & Documentation Conventions (file_structure, documentation)
   |   |- Round 3: Architecture & Tech Constraints (architecture, tech_stack)
   |   |- Round 4: Performance & Security Constraints (performance, security)
   |   +- Round 5: Quality Rules (quality_rules)
   |- Step 6: Write specs/*.md (if not --skip-specs)
   +- Step 7: Display Summary

Output:
   |- .workflow/project-tech.json (+ .backup if regenerate)
   +- .ccw/specs/*.md (scaffold or configured, unless --skip-specs)

Read the full file on GitHub · 679 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. today First seen · 679 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A f058c6c71745

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spec-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow (2,133 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 6,094 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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