spec-first-delivery

spec-first-delivery is a skill for Claude Code from jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience. It costs 37 tokens per session (766 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for defining a feature before writing code. It records the goal, users, limits, success conditions, design, and important technical decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning substantial features, infrastructure changes, architecture work, new dependencies, data boundaries, and API contracts.
Why use it?
It reduces vague requirements and prevents coding from starting before key decisions are understood, which can lead to rewrites.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the join-the-team plugin — 21 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Planning substantial features, infrastructure changes, architecture work, new dependencies, data boundaries, and…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience/spec-first-delivery
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 jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience --skill spec-first-delivery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install join-the-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 3 commands, 1 hook.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 766 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 $0.00037 $0.00766
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00383
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00077

Measured 7d ago against content hash b76394092dc6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-first-delivery 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 7d 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/spec-first-delivery/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec-First Delivery

Review the spec harder than the code. The cheapest place to be wrong is the spec.

The harness runs in this order: spec → plan → tasks → code. Skipping the spec is not faster — it is a deferred rewrite.

When to use

  • Any new feature or epic with more than ~1 day of effort
  • Infrastructure or architectural changes
  • Anything involving a new external dependency, data boundary, or API contract
  • Any time an agent offers to "just start coding"

Procedure

  1. Establish the vision artifact — confirm the project's vision document exists and is current (e.g. docs/VISION.md or equivalent per project structure). If not, create or update it before proceeding.
  2. Write the feature spec — document: what, why, who (user/actor), constraints, acceptance criteria, and out-of-scope. Reject vague specs ("improve performance") in favour of measurable ones ("p99 latency < 200 ms under 1k rps").
  3. Author or reference the HLD — a high-level design covering: components affected, data flows, integration points, and failure modes. Diagrams preferred (C4 or sequence).
  4. Create or update ADRs — one ADR per significant technical decision. Format: Context → Decision → Consequences (trade-offs). Number sequentially (ADR-NNN).
  5. Document constraints up front — security requirements, data residency, budget ceiling, compliance scope, team skill set. Constraints missed here surface as blockers late.
  6. Validate spec completeness — the spec is done when: acceptance criteria are testable, the failure mode is named, rollback is considered, and cost impact is estimated.
  7. Only then: generate the implementation plan and tasks. Hand the spec (not a prompt) to the agent.

Outputs

  • requirements/FEATURE_SPEC.md (or equivalent per project structure)
  • architecture/decisions/ADR-NNN-<short-title>.md (one per decision)
  • architecture/HLD-<feature>.md (if not already covered)
  • Updated project roadmap (e.g. docs/ROADMAP.md or equivalent per project structure) with new tasks or milestones

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 7d ago First seen · 51 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A b76394092dc6

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spec-first-delivery is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpantsjoha/ai-native-developer-experience (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 766 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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