managing-specs

managing-specs is a skill for Claude Code from dork-labs/dorkos. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,162 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for managing a project's specification manifest, a file that records each specification and its status. It defines valid statuses and the allowed progression from an idea to an implemented or replaced specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or updating specification files and their tracked statuses.
Why use it?
It prevents inconsistent status changes and manual edits that can make the project record unreliable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the flow plugin — 32 skills, 43 commands, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating or updating specification files and their tracked statuses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dork-labs/dorkos/managing-specs
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.

Any agent
npx skills add dork-labs/dorkos --skill managing-specs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dork-labs/dorkos

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 43 commands, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,162 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00032 $0.01162
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00581
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00116

Measured 5d ago against content hash ffef7362d734, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

managing-specs 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 5d 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.

.claude/skills/managing-specs/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Managing the Spec Manifest

The spec manifest (specs/manifest.json) tracks every specification in the project. Never edit it by hand — always use the manifest-ops script.

Running the Script

node --experimental-strip-types --disable-warning=ExperimentalWarning .claude/scripts/spec-manifest-ops.ts <command> [args] [options]

Canonical Statuses

Only four statuses are valid:

Status Meaning
ideation Spec has 01-ideation.md
specified Spec has 02-specification.md
implemented Spec has 04-implementation.md
superseded Replaced by a newer spec

Non-canonical aliases are normalized automatically: draft -> ideation, specification -> specified, completed -> implemented.

Status Progression

Statuses move forward only: ideation -> specified -> implemented -> superseded. The script rejects regressions unless --force is passed.

When to Update Status

  • After writing 01-ideation.md -> set to ideation
  • After writing 02-specification.md -> set to specified
  • After all implementation tasks complete -> set to implemented
  • When replaced by a newer spec -> set to superseded

Commands

Update status

node --experimental-strip-types --disable-warning=ExperimentalWarning \
  .claude/scripts/spec-manifest-ops.ts update-status <slug> <status>

Add a new spec

node --experimental-strip-types --disable-warning=ExperimentalWarning \
  .claude/scripts/spec-manifest-ops.ts add <slug> "Title" --status=ideation

Options: --status=<s>, --project=<p>, --created=YYYY-MM-DD.

Other operations

Command Purpose
get <slug> Print a spec entry as JSON
list [--status=<s>] List specs, optionally filtered
audit [--json] Audit manifest vs filesystem
fix [--dry-run] Auto-fix all audit findings
remove <slug> Remove a spec entry from the manifest (leaves files)
archive <slug> Retire a spec: move to specs/archive/ and drop the entry

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 5d ago First seen · 116 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A ffef7362d734

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managing-specs is a skill published in the GitHub repository dork-labs/dorkos (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,162 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 2026-09-03.