specrails-core: Skill for Codex

.codex/skills/openspec-new-change/SKILL.md

openspec-new-change is a skill for Codex from fjpulidop/specrails-core. It costs 40 tokens per session (666 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of openspec-new-change, MIT.

A command that starts a new OpenSpec change, where OpenSpec is a structured way to plan a feature, fix, or other modification. It creates a folder containing the planning documents for that change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to name a change, choose its planning workflow when needed, and create the starting structure for its proposal and related specifications.
Why use it?
It turns an initial request into an organized plan before implementation begins.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: installed under .codex/. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

This is fjpulidop/specrails-core's own configuration. It tells Codex how to work on specrails-core itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything specrails-core configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to fjpulidop/specrails-core. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fjpulidop/specrails-core/main/.codex/skills/openspec-new-change/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fjpulidop/specrails-core

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 666 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 73% 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 5.1 $0.00040 $0.00666
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00333
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00067

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5cb6b426fd53, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openspec-new-change 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 10d 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

73% identical to openspec-new-change — 6 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.

.codex/skills/openspec-new-change/SKILL.md · 75 lines

What it actually says

Start a new change using the experimental artifact-driven approach.

Input: The user's request should include a change name (kebab-case) OR a description of what they want to build.

Steps

  1. If no clear input provided, ask what they want to build

    Use the AskUserQuestion tool (open-ended, no preset options) to ask:

    "What change do you want to work on? Describe what you want to build or fix."

    From their description, derive a kebab-case name (e.g., "add user authentication" → add-user-auth).

    IMPORTANT: Do NOT proceed without understanding what the user wants to build.

  2. Determine the workflow schema

    Use the default schema (omit --schema) unless the user explicitly requests a different workflow.

    Use a different schema only if the user mentions:

    • A specific schema name → use --schema <name>
    • "show workflows" or "what workflows" → run openspec schemas --json and let them choose

    Otherwise: Omit --schema to use the default.

  3. Create the change directory

    openspec new change "<name>"
    

    Add --schema <name> only if the user requested a specific workflow. This creates a scaffolded change in the planning home resolved by the CLI.

  4. Show the artifact status

    openspec status --change "<name>" --json
    

    Use the returned planningHome, changeRoot, artifactPaths, and nextSteps instead of assuming repo-local paths.

  5. Get instructions for the first artifact The first artifact depends on the schema (e.g., proposal for spec-driven). Check the status output to find the first artifact with status "ready".

    openspec instructions <first-artifact-id> --change "<name>"
    

    This outputs the template and context for creating the first artifact.

  6. STOP and wait for user direction

Output

After completing the steps, summarize:

  • Change name and location
  • Schema/workflow being used and its artifact sequence
  • Current status (0/N artifacts complete)
  • The template for the first artifact
  • Prompt: "Ready to create the first artifact? Just describe what this change is about and I'll draft it, or ask me to continue."

Guardrails

  • Do NOT create any artifacts yet - just show the instructions
  • Do NOT advance beyond showing the first artifact template
  • If the name is invalid (not kebab-case), ask for a valid name
  • If a change with that name already exists, suggest continuing that change instead
  • Pass --schema if using a non-default workflow
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. 10d ago First seen · 75 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 5cb6b426fd53

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openspec-new-change is a skill published in the GitHub repository fjpulidop/specrails-core (9 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 666 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 73% identical to openspec-new-change, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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