openspec-linearized

openspec-linearized is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from intent-driven-dev/openspec-schemas. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,465 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow command that connects OpenSpec changes with Linear, a tool for tracking work and project status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Synchronizing change proposals with Linear issues, linking business requirements to technical artifacts, and preserving project visibility.
Why use it?
It keeps business goals and stakeholder-facing status in Linear while leaving technical design and implementation details in the codebase.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/intent-driven-dev/openspec-schemas/openspec-linearized
Any agent
npx skills add intent-driven-dev/openspec-schemas --skill openspec-linearized
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intent-driven-dev/openspec-schemas

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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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 1,465 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 $0.00101 $0.01465
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00732
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00146

Measured today against content hash a9f8ab5b2953, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openspec-linearized 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 today.

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.

.codex/skills/openspec-linearized/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenSpec Linearized

Use this skill to run an OpenSpec change lifecycle while preserving a clear handoff boundary:

  • Linear issue/card owns the business "what": business goal, use cases, personas/workflows, scope, acceptance criteria, and stakeholder-facing status. Keep its description synchronized from the business-facing content in proposal.md.
  • The repo owns the technical "how": OpenSpec design decisions, tasks, implementation details, migrations, tests, and code.
  • Canonical specs live under openspec/specs/. After archive succeeds, mirror those specs into Linear Project Documents for stakeholder visibility.

Linear updates are best effort once project setup exists.

Invocation Contract

  • If the user asks to operate on an OpenSpec change, use this skill as the Linear lifecycle overlay.
  • Also use the base OpenSpec skill that matches the request, such as openspec-propose, openspec-apply-change, openspec-archive-change, or openspec-sync-specs.
  • If openspec/linear.yaml exists, run the relevant Linear hook for the current phase when possible.
  • If openspec/linear.yaml is missing during proposal/setup, create it before issue hunting, story selection, or other Linear lifecycle work.
  • If openspec/linear.yaml is missing outside proposal/setup, no-op the Linear hook and continue normal OpenSpec work.
  • For status, validate, sync, continue, and artifact-editing work, preserve Linear binding awareness but do not move a Linear story to Done.

Start

  • Read references/lifecycle.md before doing lifecycle work.
  • Run openspec list --json to understand active changes.
  • Determine the phase from the request:
    • Proposal: create or continue an OpenSpec change and bind a Linear story.
    • Apply: implement tasks.md while updating the bound Linear story.
    • Archive: archive the OpenSpec change, then mirror canonical specs and close the story.
    • Sync/status/validate/continue/artifact work: keep the Linear binding in view, preserve the ownership boundary, and avoid Done transitions.
  • If another OpenSpec skill also applies, use this skill as the Linear lifecycle overlay and follow the base OpenSpec skill for normal artifact generation, task execution, or archive mechanics.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. today First seen · 83 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A a9f8ab5b2953

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openspec-linearized is a skill published in the GitHub repository intent-driven-dev/openspec-schemas (92 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,465 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 2026-09-03.

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