kiro-spec-design

kiro-spec-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gotalab/cc-sdd. It costs 12 tokens per session (2,471 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical design document for a software feature described by a specification. It maps requirements to system components, interfaces, responsibilities, and architecture decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research architecture, connect requirements to technical components, define interfaces, align with project conventions, and add diagrams when the system is complex.
Why use it?
It makes the implementation plan clear before coding begins. Explicit boundaries help prevent missing requirements and confusion about which part of the system owns each responsibility.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to research architecture, connect requirements to technical components, define interfaces, align with project conventions, and add diagrams when the system is complex.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gotalab/cc-sdd/kiro-spec-design
About the project

cc-sdd is a spec-driven development workflow for coding agents: it turns approved software specifications into requirements, designs, task plans, and extended autonomous implementation. Developers use it across several AI coding agents, with independent review and task-level continuation for long-running work. The catalogue entries provide commands, skills, agents, and instructions for using this workflow.

gotalab/cc-sdd · 3,659 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add gotalab/cc-sdd --skill kiro-spec-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gotalab/cc-sdd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,471 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: 2 findings, 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 174
    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.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 35
    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 $0.00012 $0.02471
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.01236
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00494
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00247

Measured 10d ago against content hash cd49f4f86fc5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kiro-spec-design 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 10d 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.

tools/cc-sdd/templates/agents/antigravity-skills/skills/kiro-spec-design/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Design Generator

<background_information>

  • Success Criteria:
    • All requirements mapped to technical components with clear interfaces
    • The design makes responsibility boundaries explicit enough to guide task generation and review
    • Appropriate architecture discovery and research completed
    • Design aligns with steering context and existing patterns
    • Visual diagrams included for complex architectures </background_information>

Step 1: Load Context

Read all necessary context:

  • {{KIRO_DIR}}/specs/$1/spec.json, requirements.md, design.md (if exists)
  • {{KIRO_DIR}}/specs/$1/research.md (if exists, contains gap analysis from /kiro-validate-gap)
  • Core steering context: product.md, tech.md, structure.md
  • Additional steering files only when directly relevant to requirement coverage, architecture boundaries, integrations, runtime prerequisites, security/performance constraints, or team conventions that affect implementation readiness
  • {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/templates/specs/design.md for document structure
  • Read rules/design-principles.md from this skill's directory for design principles
  • {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/templates/specs/research.md for discovery log structure

Validate requirements approval:

  • If -y flag provided ($2 == "-y"): Auto-approve requirements in spec.json
  • Otherwise: Verify approval status (stop if unapproved, see Safety & Fallback)

Step 2: Discovery & Analysis

Critical: This phase ensures design is based on complete, accurate information.

  1. Classify Feature Type:

    • New Feature (greenfield) → Full discovery required
    • Extension (existing system) → Integration-focused discovery
    • Simple Addition (CRUD/UI) → Minimal or no discovery
    • Complex Integration → Comprehensive analysis required
  2. Execute Appropriate Discovery Process:

    For Complex/New Features:

    • Read and execute rules/design-discovery-full.md from this skill's directory
    • Conduct thorough research using WebSearch/WebFetch:
      • Latest architectural patterns and best practices
      • External dependency verification (APIs, libraries, versions, compatibility)
      • Official documentation, migration guides, known issues
      • Performance benchmarks and security considerations

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 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. 10d ago First seen · 208 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A cd49f4f86fc5

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kiro-spec-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository gotalab/cc-sdd (3,659 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 2,471 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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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