spec-driven-development

spec-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code from ishandutta2007/Awesome-Agent-Skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,705 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of spec-driven-development, MIT.

A development workflow that writes and agrees on a clear specification before coding begins. The specification explains what to build, why it matters, and how to decide when it is finished.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new projects, new features, architectural decisions, or changes expected to take more than 30 minutes. It is unnecessary for simple, self-contained fixes such as typo corrections.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork when requirements are vague or a change affects several parts of a project. Human review at each phase helps catch misunderstandings before code is written.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 31 skills, 9 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for new projects, new features, architectural decisions, or changes expected to take more than 30 minutes. It is unnecessary for simple, self-contained fixes such as typo corrections.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ishandutta2007/awesome-agent-skills/spec-driven-development
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ishandutta2007/Awesome-Agent-Skills --skill spec-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ishandutta2007/Awesome-Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills, 9 commands, 4 agents.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,705 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 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00043 $0.01705
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00852
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00341
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00170

Measured 9d ago against content hash 16041b4b6149, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-driven-development 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to spec-driven-development — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/spec-driven-development/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec-Driven Development

Overview

Write a structured specification before writing any code. The spec is the shared source of truth between you and the human engineer — it defines what we're building, why, and how we'll know it's done. Code without a spec is guessing.

When to Use

  • Starting a new project or feature
  • Requirements are ambiguous or incomplete
  • The change touches multiple files or modules
  • You're about to make an architectural decision
  • The task would take more than 30 minutes to implement

When NOT to use: Single-line fixes, typo corrections, or changes where requirements are unambiguous and self-contained.

The Gated Workflow

Spec-driven development has four phases. Do not advance to the next phase until the current one is validated.

SPECIFY ──→ PLAN ──→ TASKS ──→ IMPLEMENT
   │          │        │          │
   ▼          ▼        ▼          ▼
 Human      Human    Human      Human
 reviews    reviews  reviews    reviews

Phase 1: Specify

Start with a high-level vision. Ask the human clarifying questions until requirements are concrete.

Surface assumptions immediately. Before writing any spec content, list what you're assuming:

ASSUMPTIONS I'M MAKING:
1. This is a web application (not native mobile)
2. Authentication uses session-based cookies (not JWT)
3. The database is PostgreSQL (based on existing Prisma schema)
4. We're targeting modern browsers only (no IE11)
→ Correct me now or I'll proceed with these.

Don't silently fill in ambiguous requirements. The spec's entire purpose is to surface misunderstandings before code gets written — assumptions are the most dangerous form of misunderstanding.

Write a spec document covering these six core areas:

  1. Objective — What are we building and why? Who is the user? What does success look like?

  2. Commands — Full executable commands with flags, not just tool names.

    Build: npm run build
    Test: npm test -- --coverage
    Lint: npm run lint --fix
    Dev: npm run dev
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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. 9d ago First seen · 201 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 16041b4b6149

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository ishandutta2007/Awesome-Agent-Skills (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,705 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to spec-driven-development, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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