author

author is a skill for Claude Code from L3DigitalNet/Claude-Code-Plugins. It costs 30 tokens per session (2,551 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for writing a project's main specification and dividing it into ordered phases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at project start to define scope, choose an architecture, establish project handoff conventions, and prepare work for phase execution.
Why use it?
It turns a project brief into a shared implementation plan and identifies missing information or architecture decisions early.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the spec-pipeline plugin — 2 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it at project start to define scope, choose an architecture, establish project handoff conventions, and prepare work for phase execution.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add L3DigitalNet/Claude-Code-Plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install spec-pipeline

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install spec-pipeline, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 3 commands.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,551 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 $0.00030 $0.02551
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.01020
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00510
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00255

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3d9553cbeabb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

author 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 1mo 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/spec-pipeline/skills/author/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Master Spec Authoring

Author the canonical spec for $ARGUMENTS and decompose it into ordered phases for execution by execute-phase. Run once at project inception. Choose sane defaults; do not stop for input except at the architecture checkpoint (step 2) or a HALT CONDITION.

Preconditions

  • A project brief exists: a path via $ARGUMENTS, the current conversation, or a notes doc. If the brief is too thin to derive a defensible scope and architecture, that is a genuine HALT — ask for the missing intent rather than inventing a project.
  • The /codex-review skill (Codex CLI) and ultracode workflow support are available — the review gates hard-require both. If either is missing, HALT; do not substitute an ad-hoc review and mark the gate passed.
  • Working tree clean or understood; note branch (likely a fresh repo).
  • Identify the project's handoff/state layout (Agent Handoff System) and existing conventions. Conform to them. If greenfield, this skill establishes the minimal layout the sibling skill expects.

Orchestration model

  • Main session model: Opus (authoring + architecture judgment + synthesis).
  • Review allocation (same philosophy as execute-phase): exactly ONE ultracode workflow panel pass on the raw artifact, then /codex-review to convergence. Workflow workers Sonnet; Opus only for genuinely complex sub-tasks (e.g. validating the phase dependency graph against the spec). State the routing explicitly in each trigger.
  • The master spec is the highest-leverage artifact in the system: a flaw propagates into every phase spec and all phase code. It receives phase-gate rigor applied to BOTH the spec content and the phase decomposition.

References

Shared standards live in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/. They are the rubric for both authoring and the review gate.

  • Spec construction — core: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/spec-construction.md
  • Spec construction — master delta: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/spec-construction-master.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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. 1mo ago First seen · 148 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 3d9553cbeabb

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author is a skill published in the GitHub repository L3DigitalNet/Claude-Code-Plugins (8 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 2,551 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-04.

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