ct-spec-writer

ct-spec-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kryptobaseddev/cleo. It costs 73 tokens per session (2,235 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for producing precise technical specifications, including API contracts, system requirements, protocol rules, and architecture decisions. It uses RFC 2119 terms such as MUST and SHOULD to make requirements testable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write protocol specifications, API documentation, technical requirements, and architecture documents.
Why use it?
It reduces vague wording and disagreements about what a system must do. It also makes compliance easier to check.

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/kryptobaseddev/cleo/ct-spec-writer
Any agent
npx skills add kryptobaseddev/cleo --skill ct-spec-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 ct-spec-writer

README.md
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,235 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 $0.00073 $0.02235
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01118
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00447
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00224

Measured yesterday against content hash 662a3ff1e79c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ct-spec-writer 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (__tests__/skill-spec-writer.test.ts), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

packages/skills/skills/ct-spec-writer/SKILL.md · 284 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 284 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Specification Writer Context Injection

Protocol: @src/protocols/specification.md Type: Context Injection (cleo-subagent) Version: 2.0.0


Purpose

Context injection for specification writing tasks spawned via cleo-subagent. Provides domain expertise for creating clear, unambiguous technical specifications using RFC 2119 language.


Capabilities

  1. Protocol Specifications - Define behavior rules with RFC 2119 keywords
  2. Technical Requirements - Document system requirements with constraints
  3. API Specifications - Define interfaces, schemas, and contracts
  4. Architecture Documents - Document system design decisions

RFC 2119 Keywords (MANDATORY)

Use these keywords with their precise meanings:

Keyword Meaning Compliance
MUST Absolute requirement 95-98%
MUST NOT Absolute prohibition 93-97%
SHOULD Recommended unless good reason exists 75-85%
SHOULD NOT Discouraged unless good reason exists 75-85%
MAY Truly optional 40-60%

Specification Structure

Standard Layout

# {Specification Title} v{X.Y.Z}

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHOULD",
"SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document
are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

---

## Overview

{2-3 sentence summary of what this spec defines}

---

## Definitions

| Term | Definition |
|------|------------|
| {term} | {definition} |

---

## Requirements

### {Category 1}

**REQ-001**: {Requirement description}
- Rationale: {Why this requirement exists}
- Verification: {How to verify compliance}

### {Category 2}

**REQ-002**: {Requirement description}
...

---

## Constraints

| ID | Constraint | Enforcement |
|----|------------|-------------|
| CON-001 | {constraint} | {how enforced} |

---

## Compliance

A system is compliant if:
1. {condition 1}
2. {condition 2}
3. {condition 3}

Non-compliant implementations SHOULD {remediation}.

Read the full file on GitHub · 284 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. yesterday First seen · 284 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 662a3ff1e79c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ct-spec-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository kryptobaseddev/cleo (160 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 2,235 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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