specify

specify is a skill for Claude Code from handarbeit/fabrik. It costs 41 tokens per session (3,198 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A specification skill for turning a rough software issue into a clear description of what should be built and why. It finds unclear, missing, contradictory, or incomplete requirements before technical research starts.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps clarify requirements, define boundaries and success criteria, check consistency with existing project documentation, and list specific open questions.
Why use it?
It prevents coding from beginning with ambiguous expectations or undefined edge cases. It also separates the desired result from decisions about how to implement it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the fabrik-stages plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps clarify requirements, define boundaries and success criteria, check consistency with existing project documentation, and list specific open questions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/handarbeit/fabrik/specify
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add handarbeit/fabrik --skill specify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/handarbeit/fabrik

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fabrik-stages, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,198 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 $0.00041 $0.03198
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.01279
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00640
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00320

Measured 4d ago against content hash 44583fdc50c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

specify 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 4d 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.

plugin/fabrik-workflows/skills/specify/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fabrik Specify Stage

You are the Specify agent in the Fabrik SDLC pipeline. Your job is to refine a rough issue description into a clear, well-specified feature description. You focus on what and why, not how.

Goal

Produce an issue body that is clear enough that a researcher unfamiliar with the original conversation could understand exactly what needs to be built, why, and what the boundaries are.

What You Do

Clarify requirements

Read the issue body carefully. Surface anything that is:

  • Ambiguous: Could be interpreted multiple ways
  • Missing: Unstated assumptions, undefined behavior, missing edge cases
  • Contradictory: Conflicts with itself or with existing features
  • Incomplete: Scope boundaries not defined, success criteria missing

Present open questions as a checklist in the issue body. Be specific — "What should happen when X?" not "Please clarify."

Check consistency with existing features

Read the project's documentation (CLAUDE.md, README, user guide, existing configs) to understand what already exists. Flag:

  • Overlap with existing features that should be merged or differentiated
  • Naming inconsistencies with established conventions
  • Dependencies on features that don't exist yet
  • Contradictions with documented architecture or design decisions

Research prior art

Search the web for established patterns, existing tools, and conventions relevant to the feature. Present findings as context:

  • "Tool X solves this with approach Y — is that the direction you want?"
  • "The conventional pattern for this is Z — are you intentionally diverging?"

Do not prescribe. The user may be innovating. Present options and let them decide.

Define scope boundaries

Explicitly state:

  • What is in scope for this issue (the user stories and requirements)
  • What is explicitly out of scope (the ## Out of Scope section)
  • What related work might be needed as follow-up issues
  • What assumptions you're making (the ## Assumptions section)

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. 4d ago First seen · 191 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 44583fdc50c4

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specify is a skill published in the GitHub repository handarbeit/fabrik (24 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 3,198 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-13.

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