write-build-spec

write-build-spec is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Espenandreass1/agentslice. It costs 24 tokens per session (222 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning workflow that turns an approved product slice—a small, reviewable piece of work—into a short implementation specification. It includes the expected behavior, affected areas, risks, and checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after approving a product slice to define acceptance criteria, likely files or systems to change, areas to leave untouched, and suitable quality checks.
Why use it?
It gives developers a clear, traceable target before coding begins. It also keeps planning separate from implementation and waits for explicit approval of the specification.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it after approving a product slice to define acceptance criteria, likely files or systems to change, areas to leave untouched, and suitable quality checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/espenandreass1/agentslice/write-build-spec
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Espenandreass1/agentslice --skill write-build-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Espenandreass1/agentslice

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 222 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 $0.00024 $0.00222
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00089
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00022

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 01fec1a9fa6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-build-spec 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 1mo 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.

kit/.agents/skills/write-build-spec/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Write Build Spec

Read

Verify the workspace and minimal preflight. Read the formal PR, policy, coding rules, and planning context. Open one historical record only for a concrete unresolved constraint.

Guardrails

  • Use this for controlled-change, audit-sensitive, or unusually risky work—not ordinary docs, fast bugs, or bounded features.
  • The PR remains the live status source.
  • Require human controlled plan/spec approval before sensitive implementation proceeds.
  • Keep the spec around 120 lines or fewer; explain a longer record by risk.

Steps

  1. Link the PR and state the user problem, touched/must-not-touch areas, policy trigger, acceptance, QA, and rollback.
  2. Set human approval evidence in the PR and planning state only when it is active planning.
  3. Stop for explicit controlled plan/spec approval.

Output

Link the compact plan and request approval. Do not duplicate PR status or create an unnecessary checkpoint.

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. 1mo ago Changed · -3 lines · -10 tokens per session 01fec1a9fa6c
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 31 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 075386d3243e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

write-build-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository Espenandreass1/agentslice (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 222 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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