spec-from-conversation

spec-from-conversation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ianklassen/pm-skills. It costs 108 tokens per session (551 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for turning a messy conversation, chat thread, or meeting transcript into a first-draft product specification. A product specification describes the problem, goals, limits, success measures, and unresolved questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after stakeholder discussions to draft a document that product and engineering teams can review and improve.
Why use it?
It separates what people actually said from assumptions, making missing information and disagreements visible before work begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it after stakeholder discussions to draft a document that product and engineering teams can review and improve.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ianklassen/pm-skills --skill spec-from-conversation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ianklassen/pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 551 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 $0.00108 $0.00551
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.00275
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00055

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0f924702cd96, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-from-conversation 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 12d 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.

artifact-skills/spec-from-conversation/SKILL.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec From Conversation

What this does

Takes messy input (a transcript, a thread, rambling notes) and produces a structured first-draft spec. This skill produces a draft to be argued with, not a final document. It should surface ambiguity the conversation left unresolved rather than silently resolving it for the reader.

Process

  1. Extract, don't invent. Pull the problem statement, goals, and constraints only from what was actually said. If the conversation didn't settle something (e.g., no one said what "done" looks like), write it into "Open Questions," don't guess a metric that sounds plausible.
  2. Separate stated goals from implied ones. If a stakeholder said "make it faster" but never gave a number, the spec should say "faster (no target given, needs follow-up)" rather than picking 200ms because it sounds reasonable.
  3. Draft non-goals explicitly, even if the conversation never mentioned them. A spec with no non-goals section is usually a spec that will grow scope silently later, so flag anything adjacent that was implicitly excluded (e.g., "web only, per the discussion; mobile wasn't mentioned either way, confirm").
  4. Flag conflicting statements rather than resolving them. If two people in the thread said different things, both go in with attribution, not a smoothed-over average.

Output structure

## Problem
[What's broken/missing, from the conversation, in plain terms]

## Goals
[What success looks like. Flag any goal stated without a measurable target]

## Non-Goals
[What's explicitly or implicitly out of scope]

## Success Metrics
[Only include metrics actually discussed; otherwise list under Open Questions]

## Open Questions
[Everything the conversation didn't resolve. This section should not be empty on a first draft]

What to watch for

Don't let this skill's output look more decided than the conversation actually was. A polished-looking doc with confident language creates false consensus, since stakeholders will assume agreement existed just because it's written down cleanly. When in doubt, under-resolve rather than over-resolve.

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 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. 12d ago First seen · 41 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 0f924702cd96

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spec-from-conversation is a skill published in the GitHub repository ianklassen/pm-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 551 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.

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