openspec

An artifact-based workflow for planning and reviewing software changes. It uses OPSX commands, schemas, templates, project configuration, and dependencies between planning documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize or update projects, configure workflow profiles, create or review OPSX artifacts, inspect artifact dependencies, and work with supported tool integrations.
Why use it?
It gives changes a structured lifecycle and makes the required planning artifacts and their order explicit.

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/itechmeat/llm-code/openspec
Any agent
npx skills add itechmeat/llm-code --skill openspec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itechmeat/llm-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,289 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 $0.00062 $0.01289
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00645
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00258
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00129

Measured 2d ago against content hash 30660c382337, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openspec 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 2d 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.

skills/openspec/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenSpec (OPSX) Skill

Use this skill to guide or reason about the OpenSpec artifact-driven workflow system (OPSX), including artifact graphs, schema/template resolution, change lifecycle, and experimental commands/skills.

Quick Navigation

  • Artifact graph core concepts: references/artifact-core.md
  • OPSX workflow behavior and usage: references/opsx-workflow.md
  • Setup + profiles (init, update, config profile): references/setup-profiles.md
  • Schema customization workflow and gaps: references/schema-customization.md
  • End-to-end schema workflow gaps and proposed solution: references/schema-workflow-gaps.md
  • Experimental release plan and rollout checklist: references/experimental-release-plan.md

Release Highlights (1.2.0 → 1.3.0)

  • More tool integrations: adds support for Junie, Lingma, ForgeCode, and IBM Bob.
  • Safer setup: shell completion installation is now opt-in, and Copilot auto-detection no longer triggers from a bare .github/ directory alone.
  • Adapter fixes: Pi command generation was corrected, and OpenCode now uses the canonical .opencode/commands/ path.
  • Safer status checks: openspec status now exits cleanly when a project has no changes yet.

OPSX Commands

Command Purpose
/opsx:explore Think through ideas, investigate problems (no structure)
/opsx:new Start a new change
/opsx:continue Create next artifact based on dependencies
/opsx:ff Fast-forward — create all planning artifacts at once
/opsx:apply Implement tasks, updating artifacts as needed
/opsx:verify Validate implementation matches spec
/opsx:sync Sync delta specs to main specs
/opsx:archive Archive single completed change
/opsx:bulk-archive Archive multiple completed changes at once

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 2d ago First seen · 142 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 30660c382337

Subscribe to this mod's changes

openspec is a skill published in the GitHub repository itechmeat/llm-code (22 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,289 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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