rfc-specification

rfc-specification is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jpoutrin/product-forge. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,551 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to writing RFCs, or structured documents that explain and evaluate proposed technical changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for technical specifications, system designs, architecture proposals, and documented technical decisions.
Why use it?
It helps teams compare options fairly, record assumptions and trade-offs, and support decisions with evidence instead of preferences.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the devops-data plugin — 17 skills, 4 agents 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/jpoutrin/product-forge/rfc-specification
Any agent
npx skills add jpoutrin/product-forge --skill rfc-specification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpoutrin/product-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install devops-data, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 4 agents.

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 rfc-specification

README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,551 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 $0.00040 $0.01551
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00776
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00155

Measured 5d ago against content hash f8c29e6e130b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rfc-specification 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 5d 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.

plugins/devops-data/skills/rfc-specification/SKILL.md · 241 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RFC Specification Writing Skill

This skill automatically activates when writing technical specifications, design documents, or architecture proposals that require structured evaluation and stakeholder review.

When This Skill Activates

  • Creating a new technical RFC or design document
  • Proposing architectural changes or new systems
  • Evaluating technical options objectively
  • Documenting technical decisions with rationale
  • Writing system design specifications

Core Principles

Objective Technical Analysis

RFCs must maintain strict neutrality when evaluating options:

  1. Evidence-Based Evaluation

    • Support claims with data, benchmarks, or documented experience
    • Avoid subjective language ("better", "best", "obvious choice")
    • Present measurable criteria for comparison
  2. Balanced Trade-off Analysis

    • Every option has advantages AND disadvantages
    • Document both explicitly for each alternative
    • Avoid dismissing options without clear justification
  3. Separation of Facts and Opinions

    • Clearly label assumptions vs verified facts
    • Cite sources for technical claims
    • Distinguish between team preferences and technical constraints
  4. Stakeholder Neutrality

    • Present options without advocating for a predetermined choice
    • Let evaluation criteria drive the recommendation
    • Document dissenting opinions fairly

RFC Document Structure

Required Sections

  1. Header Metadata

    ---
    rfc_id: RFC-XXXX
    title: [Descriptive Title]
    status: DRAFT | REVIEW | APPROVED | IN_PROGRESS | COMPLETED | SUPERSEDED
    author: [Name]
    reviewers: [List of reviewers with status]
    created: YYYY-MM-DD
    last_updated: YYYY-MM-DD
    decision_date: YYYY-MM-DD (when approved)
    ---
    
  2. Overview (1-2 paragraphs)

    • What this RFC proposes
    • Why it matters now
    • Expected outcome
  3. Background & Context

    • Current state of the system
    • Historical context if relevant
    • Glossary of terms
    • Links to related RFCs or documentation

Read the full file on GitHub · 241 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. 5d ago First seen · 241 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A f8c29e6e130b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rfc-specification is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpoutrin/product-forge (15 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,551 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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