spec-plan-readiness

spec-plan-readiness is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hams-ollo/zen-agent-skills. It costs 101 tokens per session (2,174 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A readiness check for deciding whether a software feature is described clearly enough to build. It compares a behavioral specification with its ordered task files, including dependencies, tests, risks, and links between tasks and expected behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before implementing a feature when both a specification and a task breakdown exist. It identifies blockers, suitable test layers, task traceability, and the first safe task to implement.
Why use it?
It finds missing information, contradictions, and incomplete planning before coding starts. This helps prevent implementation work from beginning with unresolved requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it before implementing a feature when both a specification and a task breakdown exist. It identifies blockers, suitable test layers, task traceability, and the first safe task to implement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hams-ollo/zen-agent-skills/spec-plan-readiness
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add hams-ollo/zen-agent-skills --skill spec-plan-readiness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hams-ollo/zen-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,174 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 $0.00101 $0.02174
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01087
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00435
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00217

Measured 6d ago against content hash b099f27cbf30, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-plan-readiness 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 6d 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.

.agents/skills/spec-plan-readiness/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec-plan readiness

Adapted from repoprompt-workflows (Balarama Bosch), MIT.

Uses spec-quality as supporting input.

Intent

Decide whether a readable behavioral spec plus a readable ordered set of task files is implementable before tests, code, or implementation delegation begin.

This skill is a gate. It reports exact blocking gaps and, only when all readiness conditions hold, identifies scenario test layers, task traceability, and the first safe implementation task.

In this kit, the "plan" being gated is not a standalone document: it is a ROADMAP Feature decomposed into ordered .tasks/<id>.md files, per the work-altitude-model section of the repository's AGENTS.md. Wherever this skill says "the plan," it means that ordered task decomposition, read as a set.

Inputs

Required:

  • Spec: readable behavioral contract with scenarios, constraints, proposed surface, and open questions.
  • Task decomposition: readable ordered set of task files (the roadmap Feature broken into .tasks/ items) with tasks, affected areas, dependencies, validation, test strategy, risks, rollback notes, and task-to-scenario mapping.

Optional:

  • Repository context: existing validation commands, test frameworks, surfaces, conventions, and test taxonomy.

If either required input is missing or unreadable, short-circuit: return verdict: blocked, report the missing spec and/or plan gap, leave maps empty, do not evaluate scenarios or tasks, and do not include first_safe_task.

Non-goals

Do not use this skill to:

  • write or revise the spec or the task files;
  • create tests, production code, refactors, or implementation tasks;
  • manage worktrees, progress ledgers, delegated agents, reviews, or closeout validation;
  • replace full single-spec review by spec-quality;
  • choose product scope beyond naming unresolved decisions, contradictions, and missing coverage.

Workflow

1. Confirm readable inputs

Verify that both the spec and the task decomposition were supplied and can be read.

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 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. 6d ago Changed · +7 lines b099f27cbf30
  2. 9d ago First seen · 188 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A f18ebfd45e4a

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spec-plan-readiness is a skill published in the GitHub repository hams-ollo/zen-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 2,174 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.