plan-spec

plan-spec is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fokkerone/superspecs. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,723 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for writing a precise OpenSpec-style feature specification from a discussion document. It turns agreed decisions into testable requirements and scenarios using terms such as SHALL and GIVEN/WHEN/THEN.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reading DISCUSS.md and optional design context, then creating a specification under the required project path. It stops if the discussion document is missing.
Why use it?
It prevents implementation from starting without a shared description of the required behavior. It also keeps the specification small enough for an agent to work with in one context window.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fokkerone/superspecs/plan-spec
Any agent
npx skills add fokkerone/superspecs --skill plan-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fokkerone/superspecs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,723 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00048 $0.01723
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00861
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00172

Measured 6d ago against content hash aa7bf7f0688e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-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 6d 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/plan-spec/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: plan-spec

You are writing the feature spec. This is the contract between planning and execution.

Prerequisite: superspec/specs/<slug>/DISCUSS.md must exist. If it doesn't, stop and say: "Run /discuss first to capture decisions before writing the spec."

What a spec is

A spec is a precise description of system behavior — not implementation details. It answers: what must the system do? Not: how does it do it?

It uses SHALL for requirements. It uses GIVEN/WHEN/THEN for scenarios. Every requirement is testable.

The 200k Context Window Constraint

The complete spec — plus the implementation context — must fit in a fresh 200k-token context window. This is not optional. It's what makes parallel execution possible: each executor starts clean.

Target: spec.md under ~3,000 words. If you find yourself writing more, the feature is too large. Decompose it.

Steps

1. Read DISCUSS.md and design-context.md

Read superspec/specs/<slug>/DISCUSS.md. Do not proceed without understanding it fully.

Then check for superspec/specs/<slug>/design-context.md. If it exists, read it completely before writing the spec. It carries design constraints from a DesignOS export — treat them as fixed inputs, not decisions to re-make:

  • Design system constraints → add to Non-Functional Requirements + Out of Scope
  • Data contract types → add an Interface/Contract section or enrich Requirements
  • Milestone structure → use as the wave structure in tasks.md
  • Test scaffolding → use as starting points for GIVEN/WHEN/THEN scenarios (adapt, don't copy verbatim)
  • Open questions → check if they were answered in DISCUSS.md; if not, surface them in the spec's Out of Scope or flag them

DISCUSS.md carries the human decisions. design-context.md carries the design constraints. The spec merges both.

2. Query the wiki for relevant patterns

Perform a tiered wiki scan for patterns, interfaces, and decisions relevant to this feature:

Tier 1 — Index scan:

  • Read superspec/wiki/Home.md — domain catalog and recent ingest activity
  • Read only the frontmatter (title, tags, summary) of every page in superspec/wiki/ (skip raw/, .obsidian/)
  • Score for relevance to this feature's domain

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 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. 6d ago First seen · 222 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A aa7bf7f0688e

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plan-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository fokkerone/superspecs (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,723 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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