speckit-self

speckit-self is a skill for Claude Code from github/spec-kit-copilot. It costs 84 tokens per session (353 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A maintenance command for the Specify command-line tool used by Spec Kit, a toolkit for planning software through written specifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check for a newer release, preview an upgrade, upgrade normally, or install a specific pinned version.
Why use it?
It helps you find available updates and preview or apply an upgrade to the tool itself.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to check for a newer release, preview an upgrade, upgrade normally, or install a specific pinned version.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/github/spec-kit-copilot/speckit-self
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-self
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/spec-kit-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 353 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00084 $0.00353
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00141
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00035

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3ae409f36ef4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speckit-self 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-self/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Spec Kit — self (CLI maintenance)

Maintain the Specify CLI itself with the specify self command group.

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

When to use

  • The user asks whether a newer specify-cli release exists.
  • The user wants to upgrade the CLI, or preview what an upgrade would do.

How to invoke

# Read-only: is a newer release available?
specify self check

# Preview the upgrade without changing anything
specify self upgrade --dry-run

# Upgrade in place
specify self upgrade

# Upgrade to a specific pinned release
specify self upgrade --tag <version>

Notes

  • specify self check is read-only and safe.
  • Run specify self upgrade --dry-run first and show the user the preview before performing an actual in-place upgrade.
  • After upgrading, run specify version (see the speckit-check skill) to confirm the new version.
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 · 42 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 3ae409f36ef4

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speckit-self is a skill published in the GitHub repository github/spec-kit-copilot (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 353 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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