speckit-check

speckit-check is a skill for Claude Code from github/spec-kit-copilot. It costs 69 tokens per session (313 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only environment check for the Specify command-line tool used by Spec Kit, a toolkit for specification-led software planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before or after setting up Spec Kit, or when diagnosing a broken setup.
Why use it?
It shows whether the required tools are installed and reports the available tool version and features.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it before or after setting up Spec Kit, or when diagnosing a broken setup.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/github/spec-kit-copilot/speckit-check
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

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 github/spec-kit-copilot --skill speckit-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/spec-kit-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 313 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 38
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00069 $0.00313
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00125
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00031

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 49f0dd3aeb7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speckit-check 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-check/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Spec Kit — check & version

Inspect the local Spec Kit environment with the Specify CLI. This skill exposes the read-only specify check and specify version commands.

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

When to use

  • Before/after specify init to confirm required tools are present.
  • To report the installed CLI version and feature capabilities.

How to invoke

# Check that all required tools are installed
specify check

# Show version and system information
specify version

# Show local CLI feature capabilities
specify version --features

# Machine-readable capabilities
specify version --features --json

Notes

  • These commands are read-only and safe to run without confirmation.
  • If the user reports a version problem, hand off to the speckit-self skill to check for and apply CLI upgrades.
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 · 41 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 49f0dd3aeb7a

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speckit-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository github/spec-kit-copilot (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 313 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 2026-08-30.

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