spec-kit-sync-artifacts

spec-kit-sync-artifacts is a skill for Claude Code from ErikaAX08/erikas-skills. It costs 145 tokens per session (4,321 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A drift checker for specification files: spec.md, plan.md, and tasks.md. It compares recorded fingerprints, which are stored summaries of file contents, and locates likely changes by stable IDs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether to regenerate a specification, plan, or task list after its source information changes.
Why use it?
It shows when a specification, implementation plan, or task list may be out of date without changing those files itself.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the spec-kit plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to decide whether to regenerate a specification, plan, or task list after its source information changes.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/erikaax08/erikas-skills/spec-kit-sync-artifacts
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 ErikaAX08/erikas-skills --skill spec-kit-sync-artifacts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ErikaAX08/erikas-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install spec-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for spec-kit-sync-artifacts

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/erikaax08/erikas-skills/spec-kit-sync-artifacts/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/erikaax08/erikas-skills/spec-kit-sync-artifacts)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/erikaax08/erikas-skills/spec-kit-sync-artifacts"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/erikaax08/erikas-skills/spec-kit-sync-artifacts/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for spec-kit-sync-artifacts

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/erikaax08/erikas-skills/spec-kit-sync-artifacts"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/erikaax08/erikas-skills/spec-kit-sync-artifacts.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,321 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 $0.00145 $0.04321
Opus 5.5 $0.00058 $0.01728
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00864
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00432

Measured today against content hash 080d478f433a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-kit-sync-artifacts 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.

spec-kit-sync-artifacts/SKILL.md · 306 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 306 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sync Artifacts — Drift Detection Skill

Purpose

Answer, with evidence, the question this whole kit exists to answer for the user: did something this specification/plan/tasks depended on change since it was generated, and if so, what needs to be regenerated? This is the mechanism behind "if the file a spec was generated from changes importantly, the plan and tasks should be able to update accordingly."

This skill is deliberately narrow: it detects and reports, using the Content Fingerprint Convention (spec-kit-shared/artifact-conventions.md). It does not regenerate anything itself — that stays spec-kit-generate-spec's, spec-kit-generate-plan's, or spec-kit-generate-tasks's own "Updating an Existing X" procedure, each already written to propagate a change through only the sections it actually touches. spec-kit-sync-artifacts is the shared, canonical definition of the mechanical comparison those skills' own Fase 0 steps already rely on — they reference this file instead of each re-describing hashing/comparison logic independently.

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

Always consider the complete user message and any files or attachments available in the current conversation, even when $ARGUMENTS appears literally or is empty. The most common inputs are: a feature directory to check, or an explicit note that a specific source document was just edited.

Core Principle

Detection is mechanical. Classification is semantic and stays with whoever regenerates. Propagation is one hop at a time, and never silent.

  • A hash mismatch means "something changed" — not "this is a material change requiring a cascade." The consuming skill (spec-kit-generate-spec, spec-kit-generate-plan, spec-kit-generate-tasks) makes that judgment when it re-invokes its own "Updating an Existing X" procedure.
  • After a source changes, recommend regenerating the directly dependent artifact first (the spec that cites it). Do not presume what the plan or tasks will need until the spec's actual, regenerated content is known — a cascade is a sequence of confirmed hops, not one leap.
  • A task already marked [x] is never silently touched by anything this skill triggers — it is flagged for review instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 306 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 Changed · +8 lines 080d478f433a
  2. yesterday Changed 922e50cd4662
  3. 3d ago Changed · +40 lines 8be2af0e7711
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 258 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A 6be946676a29

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec-kit-sync-artifacts is a skill published in the GitHub repository ErikaAX08/erikas-skills (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 4,321 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

gsap-scrolltrigger

Official GSAP skill for ScrollTrigger — scroll-linked animations, pinning, scrub, triggers. Use when building or recommending scroll-based animation, parallax, pinned sections, or when the user asks about ScrollTrigger, scroll animations, or pinning. Recommend GSAP for scroll-driven animation when no library is…

calesthio/OpenMontage · 68 tokens

threejs-geometry

Three.js geometry creation - built-in shapes, BufferGeometry, custom geometry, instancing. Use when creating 3D shapes, working with vertices, building custom meshes, or optimizing with instanced rendering.

calesthio/OpenMontage · 46 tokens

seedance-2-5

Generate 4-30 second cinematic video with ByteDance Seedance 2.5 through fal.ai, Volcengine Ark, Runway, or ComfyUI Partner Nodes. Use for long single generations, synchronized audio, and large multimodal reference sets (up to 30 images, 10 videos, and 10 audio clips). Also covers the 2.5 prompt contract: section…

calesthio/OpenMontage · 117 tokens

comfyui

Use when working with ComfyUI workflows in OpenMontage, including comfyuiimage/comfyuivideo/comfyuimusic, custom workflowjson/workflowpath inputs, outputnode selection, missing model setup, LoRAs, low-VRAM workflow choices, and community workflow imports.

calesthio/OpenMontage · 61 tokens

lyria

Generate and validate music with Google Lyria 3 through the Gemini Interactions API. Use before calling OpenMontage googlemusic, designing Lyria 3 Clip or Pro prompts, using image-to-music or custom lyrics, choosing between Lyria 3 and Lyria RealTime, diagnosing Google music-generation failures, or preparing…

calesthio/OpenMontage · 76 tokens

dashscope

DashScope (Alibaba Cloud Bailian / 阿里云百炼) integration — image generation (qwen-image-2.0-pro), text-to-speech (qwen3-tts-flash), and ASR with word-level timestamps (qwen3-asr-flash-filetrans). Use when generating images via Qwen-Image, narrating via Qwen-TTS, or transcribing with word-level timestamps via Qwen-ASR.

calesthio/OpenMontage · 93 tokens