speckit-artifact

speckit-artifact is a skill for Claude Code from github/spec-kit-copilot. It costs 105 tokens per session (702 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Spec Kit inspection tool for listing and tracing the commands, templates, scripts, and hooks available in a project. It shows which project or extension layer supplies each item and how layers override or combine.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect Spec Kit artifact inventories, composition and precedence, hook registration, and the source of a resolved artifact.
Why use it?
It helps explain where a generated artifact came from and why a particular version is active. It also exposes hidden layers and whether hooks are registered.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to inspect Spec Kit artifact inventories, composition and precedence, hook registration, and the source of a resolved artifact.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/github/spec-kit-copilot/speckit-artifact
About the project

github/spec-kit-copilot is a repository of GitHub Copilot integrations for Spec Kit, a toolkit for developing software through a structured specification-first workflow. It provides Copilot-specific commands, skills, canvases, and related workflow components for users of the Copilot CLI, Copilot App, and VS Code.

github/spec-kit-copilot · 18 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add github/spec-kit-copilot --skill speckit-artifact
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/spec-kit-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 702 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 $0.00105 $0.00702
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.00281
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00070

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7331f894426b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speckit-artifact 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.

skills/speckit-artifact/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec Kit — artifacts

Inspect commands, templates, scripts, hooks, and their effective composition stacks with the Specify CLI specify artifact command group. Requires Specify CLI >= 1.0.7.

Prerequisite: needs the specify CLI. If specify --version fails, install it with the speckit-cli-setup skill first.

When to use

  • List every command, template, script, and hook visible to a Spec Kit project.
  • Explain which project, preset, extension, or built-in layer supplies an artifact.
  • Inspect precedence, composition strategy, active layers, and hidden layers.
  • Check whether declared hooks are registered and active.
  • Resolve a stack entry back to the validated manifest contribution Spec Kit uses.

How to invoke

# Full artifact inventory, including composition stacks
specify artifact list --json

# Inspect one artifact by bare name or source-agnostic artifact id
specify artifact info <name> --json
specify artifact info <kind>:<name> --json
specify artifact info <name> --kind <command|template|script|hook> --json

# Resolve a manifest-backed stack layer to its effective contribution
specify artifact lookup <lookupId> --json

Identifiers

  • An artifact id has the form <kind>:<name>, such as command:speckit.specify. Pass this value to specify artifact info.
  • A stack entry's lookupId identifies the preset or extension contribution behind that layer. Pass this opaque value unchanged to specify artifact lookup.
  • Built-in layers do not have a lookupId. Project or convention-only layers may not have a manifest contribution that lookup can resolve.

Notes

  • All specify artifact subcommands are read-only.
  • --json is currently required. A missing --json is a usage error.
  • Run commands from an initialized Spec Kit project containing .specify/.
  • list and info return ordered stacks. For commands, templates, and scripts, index 0 is the winning layer. Hook stacks are additive, so multiple entries can be active.
  • Composition strategies are replace, wrap, prepend, append, and additive for hooks.
  • active and hidden are independent: an inactive layer can still participate in composed output unless a higher replace layer hides it.
  • Hook artifact ids percent-encode event and target-command components. Reuse ids and lookupIds exactly as returned instead of constructing them manually.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 1mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 7331f894426b

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speckit-artifact is a skill published in the GitHub repository github/spec-kit-copilot (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 702 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-17.

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