spec-driven-development

A development process that writes a structured specification before code. The specification describes what is being built, why it is needed, and how completion will be judged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new projects, major features, multi-file changes, architectural decisions, or requirements that need detailed examination before implementation.
Why use it?
It gives the developer and agent a shared source of truth instead of relying on guesses or scattered requirements. This is useful when a feature is broad, ambiguous, or architecturally significant.

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/chankov/agent-fleet/spec-driven-development
Any agent
npx skills add chankov/agent-fleet --skill spec-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chankov/agent-fleet

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,551 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00050 $0.02551
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01275
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00510
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00255

Measured 2d ago against content hash 147209ba7a89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-driven-development 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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to as-spec-driven-development — 57 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.versions/0.0.1/skills/spec-driven-development/SKILL.md · 246 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 246 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec-Driven Development

Overview

Write a structured specification before writing any code. The spec is the shared source of truth between you and the human engineer — it defines what we're building, why, and how we'll know it's done. Code without a spec is guessing.

When to Use

  • Starting a new project or feature
  • Requirements are ambiguous or incomplete
  • The change touches multiple files or modules
  • You're about to make an architectural decision
  • The user asks to grill or stress-test a concept/spec before planning
  • The task would take more than 30 minutes to implement

When NOT to use: Single-line fixes, typo corrections, or changes where requirements are unambiguous and self-contained.

Output Location

By default, save the spec to docs/prds/{area}/PRD{n}-{topic}.md:

  • {area} — the functional area of the codebase the change belongs to. Ask the user or infer it from the change (e.g. tournaments, calendar, auth).
  • {n} — the next free PRD number. Scan docs/prds/ recursively for the highest existing PRD<number> and add 1; start at 1 if none exist.
  • {topic} — a short kebab-case slug of the feature.

Match the project's existing docs vs Docs capitalization, and create the directory if it does not exist.

Project overrides: if .ai/agent-fleet-overrides.md has a ## spec-driven-development section, its keys (spec-dir, naming) override these defaults. Absent file or section → use the defaults above. See docs/agent-fleet-setup.md.

The Gated Workflow

Spec-driven development has four phases. Do not advance to the next phase until the current one is validated.

SPECIFY ──→ PLAN ──→ TASKS ──→ IMPLEMENT
   │          │        │          │
   ▼          ▼        ▼          ▼
 Human      Human    Human      Human
 reviews    reviews  reviews    reviews

Phase 1: Specify

Gather context first. Before writing any spec content, identify and read the sources the spec will build on:

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 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. 2d ago First seen · 246 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 147209ba7a89

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository chankov/agent-fleet (10 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,551 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to as-spec-driven-development, differing in 57 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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