kb-to-spec

kb-to-spec is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lancewillett/ai-plugins. It costs 110 tokens per session (1,526 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for turning a private Markdown note into a standalone design specification shared in a GitHub project repository. The private note remains private and links to the published specification instead of copying it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Publishing plans and design decisions as repository documentation while retaining private logs, drafts, and internal references locally.
Why use it?
It separates personal notes from information intended for other project contributors, avoiding accidental disclosure and duplicate documents.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Publishing plans and design decisions as repository documentation while retaining private logs, drafts, and internal references locally.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lancewillett/ai-plugins/kb-to-spec
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 lancewillett/ai-plugins --skill kb-to-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lancewillett/ai-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,526 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 $0.00110 $0.01526
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00763
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00153

Measured 7d ago against content hash ab1ba650117c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kb-to-spec 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 7d 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/kb-to-spec/skills/kb-to-spec/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

kb-to-spec

Turn one of your private Markdown notes or KB files into a shareable spec committed to a project's GitHub repo—repeatably, without leaking anything private and without duplicating content.

The two-file model

After promotion there are two files, independent, no shared text:

File Lives in Holds Who sees it
Spec the project repo (<repo>/docs/...) the shareable design content, standalone—a reader needs nothing else anyone with repo access
Private note your local notes / KB (where it already is) private-only material—logs, decisions-in-progress, personal meta, internal cross-refs—plus a link up to the spec only you

Never duplicate. If a piece of content is shareable, it lives in the spec, and the private note links to it instead of repeating it. The private note is a thin private layer on top of the spec, not a copy of it.

Inputs

  • Source: the private note or KB file to promote (path; ask if not given).
  • Target repo: your local clone of the target repo (ask if unknown).
  • Spec location: detect the repo's existing convention—look for an existing docs/**/specs/ dir and a sample spec. Match what's already there (path + whether specs use YAML frontmatter or a bold **Authors:** header). The Authors field is the de-facto ownership key: every spec lists its real authors, and editing rights follow it.

Procedure

1. Read source and learn the repo's spec convention

Read the private file. In the target repo, find an existing spec and note: where specs live, the header style (frontmatter vs. inline **Date/Status/Authors:**), and the filename pattern (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md).

2. Classify the content

Split the private file into:

  • Shareable → design, decisions, architecture, rationale, scope, open questions that a teammate needs.
  • Private-only → keep in the note: personal meta ("my lane", who-owns-what framing), internal cross-references that only resolve in your local file system (e.g. links to other private notes), log entries, draft messages, anything that only makes sense inside your own environment.

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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. 7d ago First seen · 108 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A ab1ba650117c

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kb-to-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository lancewillett/ai-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 1,526 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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