spec-interview

A guided interview tool for turning an idea or feature request into a written project specification. It asks focused questions about requirements, constraints, and assumptions, then saves the result to SPEC.md.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting a project or feature, reviewing an existing SPEC.md, deciding between design options, and documenting agreed requirements.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear decisions and missing requirements before implementation begins, reducing rework caused by misunderstood goals.

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/cfircoo/claude-code-toolkit/spec-interview
Any agent
npx skills add cfircoo/claude-code-toolkit --skill spec-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cfircoo/claude-code-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,310 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 $0.00033 $0.02310
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01155
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00462
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00231

Measured 2d ago against content hash c80c39a6a485, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-interview 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/spec-interview/SKILL.md · 266 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 266 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The goal is to surface hidden assumptions and force decisions BEFORE implementation begins.

<essential_principles>

</essential_principles>

<quick_start>

  1. Check if SPEC.md exists and read it
  2. Identify gaps, ambiguities, and untested assumptions
  3. Begin interviewing using AskUserQuestionTool
  4. Cover ALL domains systematically (see question_domains)
  5. Write completed spec to SPEC.md </quick_start>

If exists: Analyze what's defined vs. what's missing or vague. If not: Start fresh, but ask about existing context (related systems, constraints, prior art).

CRITICAL: Each question must:

  • Be specific to THIS project (not generic)
  • Surface a decision or assumption
  • Have meaningful, distinct options
  • Force the user to commit to something

Probe these immediately before moving on.

<question_domains>

Read the full file on GitHub · 266 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 266 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A c80c39a6a485

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository cfircoo/claude-code-toolkit (17 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,310 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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