spec-quality

spec-quality is a skill for Claude Code from elct9620/ai-spec-skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (2,334 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A checklist for judging whether a software specification is ready to implement. It reviews purpose, users, behavior, success measures, errors, interfaces, and other requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a pre-implementation review, a quality gate, or an improvement checklist for a specification.
Why use it?
It helps expose missing details and unclear requirements before they cause questions, rework, or inconsistent implementations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the spec plugin — 4 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it as a pre-implementation review, a quality gate, or an improvement checklist for a specification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/elct9620/ai-spec-skills/spec-quality
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 elct9620/ai-spec-skills --skill spec-quality
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elct9620/ai-spec-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install spec, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 2 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,334 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.
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 $0.00031 $0.02334
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01167
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00467
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00233

Measured 11d ago against content hash 04fc8634ae2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-quality 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 11d 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-quality/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Specification Quality

Criteria and tools for evaluating specification quality.

Applicability Rubric

Condition Pass Fail
Spec review requested Need to assess spec quality No review needed
Pre-implementation check Spec about to be implemented Already implemented
Quality gate Spec must meet minimum bar before proceeding Quality already verified
Improvement cycle Iterating on spec after feedback No prior version to compare against

Apply when: Any condition passes

Core Principles

Specification Rubric

Rate each item Y (yes) or N (no).

Intent Layer

# Criterion Required Y/N
1 Purpose stated in one sentence?
2 Target users identified?
3 Impacts (behavior changes) identified?
4 Success criteria measurable or verifiable?

Design Layer

# Criterion Required Y/N
5 Each documented feature has defined behavior?
6 Error scenarios cover all documented features?
7 Interaction points (internal and external) have explicit contracts?
8 Implementer can build without clarifying questions?

Consistency Layer

# Criterion Required Y/N
9 Key terms defined and used consistently throughout?
10 Recurring situations have named patterns?
11 Two implementers would produce compatible results?

Evidence Criteria for Y/N scoring:

Score based on the spec's declared scope — what the spec claims to cover. Do not score N because the spec omits something outside its declared scope.

# Score Y when Score N when
1 Spec contains an explicit sentence stating what problem the system solves No purpose statement, or purpose restates the feature name ("A login system for logging in")
2 Spec names specific user roles or personas "Users" mentioned generically without identifying who or what they accomplish
3 Spec lists observable behavior changes or measurable outcomes No impacts listed, or only vague goals ("improve performance")
4 Success criteria use numbers, conditions, or verifiable statements Unmeasurable criteria ("fast and reliable", "good UX")
5 Every feature the spec lists has at least one defined behavior (action → result) Features listed as bullet points without behavior definitions
6 Each documented feature has at least one error/failure scenario defined Missing error handling for documented features, or only generic "handle errors appropriately"
7 Module interaction points described in the spec have explicit input/output contracts Modules interact without defined interfaces
8 An implementer could build the documented scope without asking clarifying questions Ambiguous terms, undefined states, or missing decisions within documented scope
9 Key domain terms are defined; each concept has exactly one name throughout Same concept called different names in different sections
10 Similar situations within the spec reference shared patterns or conventions Ad-hoc solutions for similar problems in different sections
11 Two implementers would produce compatible results for all documented behaviors Interpretation would vary for documented scope

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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. 11d ago First seen · 166 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 04fc8634ae2a

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spec-quality is a skill published in the GitHub repository elct9620/ai-spec-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 2,334 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 2026-08-31.

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