spec-driven-development

spec-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code from juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins. It costs 48 tokens per session (3,910 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A staged process for defining, planning, breaking down, and implementing a significant software change before coding it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a specification, plan, task list, commands, and review points for a new feature or larger change.
Why use it?
It makes unclear requirements, assumptions, acceptance checks, and multi-file work explicit before implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the feature-dev plugin — 2 skills, 7 commands, 13 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a specification, plan, task list, commands, and review points for a new feature or larger change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins/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 juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins --skill spec-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install feature-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 7 commands, 13 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,910 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 $0.00048 $0.03910
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.01564
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00782
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00391

Measured 9d ago against content hash b3f3db362d0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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.

feature-dev/skills/spec-driven-development/SKILL.md · 250 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 250 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec-Driven Development

When to Use

  • Starting a new feature or project
  • Requirements are ambiguous or incomplete
  • Change touches multiple files or modules
  • Task would take more than 30 minutes to implement
  • About to make an architectural decision

The Gated Workflow

Do not advance until the current phase is validated by the user.

SPECIFY ──→ [PLAN ──→ TASKS] ──→ IMPLEMENT
   │          │        │            │
   ▼          ▼        ▼            ▼
 Review     Review   Review      Review

PLAN and TASKS are optional. The default path is Specify, then /feature-dev:explore-plan writes the step-level plan from the code. Run them (/feature-dev:spec --with-tasks) only when no explore-plan run will follow — otherwise the spec carries a second plan that explore-plan re-derives with different numbering, and the two drift.

Each gate ends with a short review brief (decided / assumed / unverified claims about the code / out of scope — the format is in /feature-dev:spec), not the whole artifact re-printed: the user approves from what they read in the chat.

Phase 1: Specify

The first interaction is one scope question, asked alone (AskUserQuestion, a single question) before assumptions and before exploring any code: which repos and components are in, what is explicitly out, with a recommended option inferred from the description (the multi-repo detection below feeds it). Scope sizes everything after it, and a scope question bundled with others gets answered last; scope that moves after approval means a re-plan. What the answer rules out becomes the spec's ## Non-Goals.

Then surface assumptions, in their own round-trip: one AskUserQuestion call with one question per assumption (up to 4), each a single decision with the assumption as the recommended option and a concrete alternative beside it. A single question that lists every assumption with "confirm all / correct some" makes the answer all-or-nothing, and a correction means typing which item and how. Facts about the code are checked, not asked.

Read the full file on GitHub · 250 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. 9d ago Changed · -3 lines b3f3db362d0d
  2. 21d ago Changed 129a2db8416c
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  7. 1mo ago First seen · 208 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 4a7b5a24ec70

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 3,910 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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