to-spec

to-spec is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from FradSer/dotclaude. It costs 48 tokens per session (792 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of to-spec, MIT.

A specification-writing workflow that turns the current conversation and codebase understanding into a product requirements document, or PRD, and publishes it to the project's issue tracker.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write a feature spec from a discussion, including its scope, domain terms, design constraints, and proposed test seams.
Why use it?
It captures agreed work without making the user repeat information in an interview. It also records testing points and follows the project's existing terminology and design decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the mattpocock plugin — 46 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to write a feature spec from a discussion, including its scope, domain terms, design constraints, and proposed test seams.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fradser/dotclaude/to-spec
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 FradSer/dotclaude --skill to-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FradSer/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mattpocock, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 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.

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README.md
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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 792 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 88% 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 $0.00048 $0.00792
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00317
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00079

Measured 23d ago against content hash 052fb59dee6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

to-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 23d 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

88% identical to to-spec — 14 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.

mattpocock/skills/engineering/to-spec/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

This skill takes the current conversation context and codebase understanding and produces a spec (you may know this document as a PRD). Do NOT interview the user; just synthesize what you already know.

The issue tracker and triage label vocabulary should have been provided to you. If not, tell the user to run /mattpocock:setup-matt-pocock-skills.

CRITICAL: No interview — synthesize what you already know

Do NOT interview the user; the spec is a synthesis of the conversation and codebase understanding already in context. Test at the highest existing seam, preferring one seam to many — check the seams with the user before writing.

Process

  1. Explore the repo to understand the current state of the codebase, if you haven't already. Use the project's domain glossary vocabulary throughout the spec, and respect any ADRs in the area you're touching.

  2. Sketch out the seams at which you're going to test the feature. Existing seams should be preferred to new ones. Use the highest seam possible. If new seams are needed, propose them at the highest point you can. The fewer seams across the codebase, the better - the ideal number is one.

Check with the user that these seams match their expectations.

  1. Write the spec using the template below, then publish it to the project issue tracker. Apply the ready-for-agent triage label - no need for additional triage.

Problem Statement

The problem that the user is facing, from the user's perspective.

Solution

The solution to the problem, from the user's perspective.

User Stories

A LONG, numbered list of user stories. Each user story should be in the format of:

  1. As an , I want a , so that

This list of user stories should be extremely extensive and cover all aspects of the feature.

Scenarios

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 23d ago First seen · 84 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 052fb59dee6c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

to-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository FradSer/dotclaude (594 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 792 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to to-spec, differing in 14 lines, and is treated as a copy.