develop-from-spec

develop-from-spec is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gabonio/agent-operator-toolkit. It costs 66 tokens per session (513 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specification-led workflow for substantial software changes, covering discovery, written specifications, planning, approval, implementation, and verification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a feature, write its design and implementation plan, obtain approval, make the change, run checks, and record evidence.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of coding the wrong thing by requiring the work to be understood and approved before implementation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the builder-kit plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate a feature, write its design and implementation plan, obtain approval, make the change, run checks, and record evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gabonio/agent-operator-toolkit/develop-from-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 gabonio/agent-operator-toolkit --skill develop-from-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gabonio/agent-operator-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install builder-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 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 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 513 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 $0.00066 $0.00513
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00205
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00051

Measured 6d ago against content hash 6592cd86148a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

develop-from-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.

plugins/builder-kit/skills/develop-from-spec/SKILL.md · 21 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 21 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Develop from Spec

Read Git Safety before editing or publishing.

  1. Discover. Read local rules, sources of truth, relevant design, code, tests, and delivery constraints. Use standards routing to load only matching standards and relevant lenses. Preserve the established stack; use the specification workflow's conditional interview only when selection is unresolved or reconsideration is requested. For new apps/modules or ownership changes, apply domain organization and developer navigation; preserve approved brownfield architecture.
  2. Specify and plan. Follow the specification workflow and repository conventions; otherwise use the specification and plan templates. Keep behavior/decisions in the specification and ordered execution in the plan.
  3. Approve. Large or high-risk work needs specification approval before planning. All non-trivial work needs unambiguous plan approval before implementation; bounded work may combine both approvals.
  4. Execute coherent slices. Preserve unrelated work, follow the plan, verify each slice, and record concise evidence. An incremental draft-PR sequence requires explicit authorization for the draft PR, bounded pushes, and reviewer invocations; plan approval alone does not authorize publication. Complete each review checkpoint before starting the next slice. Do not split tightly coupled changes merely to shrink a diff.
  5. Verify together. Run cross-slice checks and the closest feasible production-like build. Check readability, capability ownership, and the developer's route to the entrypoint/rule/test. When authorized, finish with a whole-PR review. Report exact evidence, navigation/run instructions, key decisions, and residual risk without duplicating existing docs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 21 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. 6d ago Changed · -4 lines 6592cd86148a
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 25 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A e367e0c0cc03

Subscribe to this mod's changes

develop-from-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository gabonio/agent-operator-toolkit (1 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 513 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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