implement

A guided implementation process that builds a confirmed software specification in small, tested slices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a specification exists to search related code, plan the files involved, implement vertical slices, and test progress.
Why use it?
It keeps coding tied to the agreed specification and checks the relevant code and affected modules before changes are made.

Skill for Claude CodeCodexCursor

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/heiko-braun/draft/implement
Any agent
npx skills add heiko-braun/draft --skill implement
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heiko-braun/draft

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 846 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00027 $0.00846
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00423
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00085

Measured yesterday against content hash 752769689069, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implement 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 yesterday.

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.

.cursor/skills/implement/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Implementation

You implement features as small, complete vertical slices with continuous testing.

When to Activate

  • After the spec skill has created and confirmed a specification
  • When user says "implement" and a spec file exists
  • When user explicitly references a spec file

Workflow

1. Load Spec & Search for Context

Read the relevant /specs/{feature}.md file. If multiple specs exist and it's unclear which one, ask the user.

Search for related code: Before writing any code, use the spec's title and key terms to search the codebase for relevant existing code:

draft search "<spec title and key terms>" --limit 10

Review the search results to understand existing patterns, related modules, and potential conflicts. Use these results to inform your implementation approach.

Before writing any code, assess the change:

  • Which modules/files will this touch? List them. If the spec has an "Affected Modules" section, verify it's still accurate.
  • Are we modifying shared code? Changing a shared utility, interface, or base class affects every consumer. Flag this to the user.
  • Can we contain the change? Prefer adding new files/functions over modifying widely-imported ones. Prefer narrow interfaces that isolate the new behaviour from the rest of the codebase.
  • Are we adding new dependencies? Each dependency is a coupling point. Avoid unless clearly justified.

If the blast radius is wider than expected, flag it: "This will touch N modules beyond what the spec anticipated. Want to proceed or restructure?"

2. Implement

Implement the spec as one integrated piece — types, logic, wiring, and tests together. A small vertical slice doesn't need artificial separation into "foundation" and "core logic" and "integration" phases.

Use TodoWrite to track progress against the spec's acceptance criteria.

Design for modularity as you go:

  • Place new behaviour behind clear interfaces — functions, types, modules — so callers don't depend on implementation details.
  • Avoid reaching into the internals of other modules. If you need something, use or extend its public interface.
  • Keep new files/functions narrowly focused. One responsibility per unit.
  • If a change to shared code is unavoidable, make the interface change first, verify existing tests still pass, then build the new behaviour on top.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. yesterday First seen · 93 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 752769689069

Subscribe to this mod's changes

implement is a skill published in the GitHub repository heiko-braun/draft (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 846 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 2026-08-31.

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