specify

specify is a skill for Claude Code from kzytateishi/spikeee-plugins-marketplace. It costs 58 tokens per session (968 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specification-writing workflow that turns a feature, bug fix, improvement, investigation, or technical chore into an ordered specification and task checklist.

In plain words
What is it for?
Classifying a request, analyzing the codebase, choosing a matching template, and producing `order.md` and `todo.md`.
Why use it?
It gives implementation work a clear plan before coding begins and asks for a choice when the request could fit more than one type.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the dev-workflow plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Classifying a request, analyzing the codebase, choosing a matching template, and producing order.md and todo.md.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kzytateishi/spikeee-plugins-marketplace/specify
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 kzytateishi/spikeee-plugins-marketplace --skill specify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kzytateishi/spikeee-plugins-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 968 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 $0.00058 $0.00968
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00484
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00194
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00097

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3dcf6ad07323, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

specify 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 11d 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/dev-workflow/skills/specify/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Specify

Generate a specification for $ARGUMENTS.

Phase 1: Scenario Detection

Analyze the user's request and classify into one of 5 scenarios:

  1. New Feature — keywords: "new", "add", "create", "build", "introduce" → Use refs/template-new-feature.md

  2. Improvement — keywords: "improve", "optimize", "enhance", "update", "refine" → Use refs/template-improvement.md

  3. Bugfix — keywords: "bug", "error", "fix", "broken", "crash", "failing" → Use refs/template-bugfix.md

  4. Spike (Technical Investigation) — keywords: "investigate", "PoC", "spike", "research", "evaluate" → Use refs/template-spike.md — Also triggered by explicit prefix: /specify spike: ...

  5. Chore (Technical Work) — keywords: "refactor", "migrate", "dependency", "chore", "upgrade", "infrastructure" → Use refs/template-chore.md — Also triggered by explicit prefix: /specify chore: ...

Ambiguity handling: If the request matches keywords from multiple scenarios (e.g., "fix and improve"), STOP immediately. Output a message asking the user to choose between the top 2 matching scenarios. Do not proceed to Phase 2 until the user replies.

No match: If no keywords match any scenario, ask the user which scenario best fits their request.

Phase 2: Codebase Analysis

Before writing the specification, thoroughly analyze the existing codebase:

a. Project Environment Detection

  • Language & Framework: detect from package manager and build configuration files
  • Project conventions: read CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md if present
  • Architecture docs: search for docs/ or documentation/ directories

b. Related Code Investigation

  • Search for files and symbols related to the feature using Grep and Glob
  • If a symbolic analysis MCP is available, use it for deeper code navigation (find symbol, find references, etc.)
  • Identify similar implementation patterns already in the codebase
  • Check database schema/migration files if the feature involves data
  • Check API routing files if the feature involves endpoints

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 11d ago First seen · 105 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 3dcf6ad07323

Subscribe to this mod's changes

specify is a skill published in the GitHub repository kzytateishi/spikeee-plugins-marketplace (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 968 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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