kiro-steering-custom

kiro-steering-custom is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gotalab/cc-sdd. It costs 14 tokens per session (1,102 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for creating project guidance documents for a specialized area, such as API rules or testing practices. These documents add focused context beyond the project's core steering files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a custom steering topic, start from an available template, inspect the relevant code, and document specialized project conventions.
Why use it?
General project notes may not cover every technical area. Specialized guidance records the patterns and constraints an agent should follow when working in that area.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to define a custom steering topic, start from an available template, inspect the relevant code, and document specialized project conventions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gotalab/cc-sdd/kiro-steering-custom
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 · 3,738 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 gotalab/cc-sdd --skill kiro-steering-custom
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gotalab/cc-sdd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,102 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 $0.00014 $0.01102
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00441
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00110

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a2cd948a42ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kiro-steering-custom 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

tools/cc-sdd/templates/agents/antigravity-skills/skills/kiro-steering-custom/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kiro Custom Steering Creation

<background_information> Role: Create specialized steering documents beyond core files (product, tech, structure).

Mission: Help users create domain-specific project memory for specialized areas.

Success Criteria:

  • Custom steering captures specialized patterns
  • Follows same granularity principles as core steering
  • Provides clear value for specific domain </background_information>

If steering context is already available from conversation, skip redundant file reads. Otherwise:

  • Check {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/templates/steering-custom/ for available templates
  • Read rules/steering-principles.md from this skill's directory for steering principles

Workflow

  1. Ask user for custom steering needs:

    • Domain/topic (e.g., "API standards", "testing approach")
    • Specific requirements or patterns to document
  2. Check if template exists:

    • Load from {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/templates/steering-custom/{name}.md if available
    • Use as starting point, customize based on project
  3. Analyze codebase (JIT) for relevant patterns:

Parallel Research

The following research areas are independent and can be executed in parallel:

  1. Template & principles: Load matching template and steering-principles.md
  2. Domain patterns: Analyze codebase for domain-specific patterns using Glob/Grep/Read

If multi-agent is enabled, spawn sub-agents for each area above. Otherwise execute sequentially.

After all parallel research completes, synthesize findings for steering document.

  1. Generate custom steering:

    • Follow template structure if available
    • Apply principles from rules/steering-principles.md from this skill's directory
    • Focus on patterns, not exhaustive lists
    • Keep to 100-200 lines (2-3 minute read)
  2. Create file in {{KIRO_DIR}}/steering/{name}.md

Available Templates

Templates available in {{KIRO_DIR}}/settings/templates/steering-custom/:

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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 · 146 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A a2cd948a42ca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kiro-steering-custom is a skill published in the GitHub repository gotalab/cc-sdd (3,738 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 1,102 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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