spec

spec is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from joestump/claude-plugin-sdd. It costs 42 tokens per session (9,170 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specification-writing workflow for describing software requirements, example situations, and design reasoning. It keeps the requirements file and the explanation of the technical design together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or update a formal specification, turn an architecture decision record into a specification, or clarify requirements before coding.
Why use it?
It gives a project a shared written description of what the system must do and why it is designed that way.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the sdd plugin — 20 skills shipped together

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/joestump/claude-plugin-sdd/spec
Any agent
npx skills add joestump/claude-plugin-sdd --skill spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joestump/claude-plugin-sdd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sdd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for spec

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/joestump/claude-plugin-sdd/spec"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/joestump/claude-plugin-sdd/spec.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,170 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 $0.00042 $0.09170
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.04585
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.01834
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00917

Measured today against content hash e43e1d197d0b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec 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.

skills/spec/SKILL.md · 541 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 541 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create an OpenSpec Specification

Harness portability. This skill runs on any agent harness that loads Agent Skills — Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, Crush. Tool names used below (AskUserQuestion, Task, TeamCreate, SendMessage, TaskCreate, ToolSearch, mcp__*, ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}) denote capabilities, not hard requirements: map each to your harness's equivalent or use the documented fallback per ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/harness-compat.md. References to CLAUDE.md mean the project memory file (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, or CRUSH.md) per harness-compat § "Project Memory File". A citation of the form shared-patterns.md § "Section" names one ## heading in that file — load only that section (see its "How to Read This File" note), never the whole file.

You are creating or updating an OpenSpec specification. Every spec is a paired artifact: spec.md (requirements — what the system does) and design.md (architecture and rationale — how and why it does it).

You MUST ALWAYS create or update BOTH files together. They are a single unit of truth. Never create, edit, or deliver one without the other.

When updating an existing spec, you MUST review the companion file for alignment. If spec.md changes, read design.md and update it where the architectural decisions or rationale no longer reflect the updated requirements — and vice versa. The two files MUST remain internally consistent at all times.

When creating a new spec from scratch, both files are created together — alignment is automatic. The pairing review obligation applies to subsequent updates where one file may change without the other.

Process

  1. Resolve artifact paths: Follow the Artifact Path Resolution pattern from ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/shared-patterns.md § "Artifact Path Resolution" to determine the spec directory. If $ARGUMENTS contains --module <name>, resolve paths relative to that module. The resolved spec directory is referred to as {spec-dir} below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 541 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 Changed · -28 lines e43e1d197d0b
  2. 4d ago First seen · 569 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 2e01d1fa8f23

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository joestump/claude-plugin-sdd (32 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 9,170 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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