spec-interview

spec-interview is a skill for Claude Code from leandroz/claude-plugins. It costs 49 tokens per session (640 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow that examines the codebase, questions a rough SPEC.md, and turns it into a detailed specification and ordered tasks. A codebase is the project's existing source code and structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare feature plans that another developer can build without needing the original conversation.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear requirements, edge cases, and conflicts with existing code before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the spec-interview plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare feature plans that another developer can build without needing the original conversation.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install spec-interview, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 640 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 $0.00049 $0.00640
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00256
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00064

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7286bc19ce7c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-interview 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.

spec-interview/skills/spec-interview/SKILL.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec interview

Read SPEC.md in the working directory — a rough idea or draft spec — and turn it into a document someone unfamiliar with the conversation could implement without coming back with questions. Act as a senior technical PM and systems architect: the value is in the questions the user hasn't thought to ask themselves.

Before asking anything

Explore the parts of the codebase the spec touches. Existing patterns, related files, conventions, architecture. This is what separates grounded questions from generic ones — you'll catch conflicts with code that already exists, spot reuse, and avoid proposing a design that fights the repo.

The interview

Use AskUserQuestion, 2–4 related questions per round. Good questions point at a specific part of the spec, say what ambiguity or risk prompted them, and offer concrete options with their tradeoffs. Anything already answered in the spec is wasted.

references/interview-dimensions.md lists the areas worth probing — edge cases, data modeling, security, performance, state transitions, integrations, UX detail, rollout, observability, testing, tradeoffs. Read it when you want a prompt for where to dig; most specs only have real ambiguity in a few of them, and the interview should concentrate there rather than sweep everything.

Keep going round after round, letting each set of answers open the next. Challenge assumptions when something looks risky, and name contradictions when answers conflict with each other or with the code you read.

When the spec would survive a handoff with no follow-up questions, say you're ready to write it and ask whether anything is still uncovered.

Writing the spec

Write the complete specification back to SPEC.md: every decision made during the interview, exact behavior for the edge cases discussed, explicit non-goals and out-of-scope items, and acceptance criteria where they help. Then rename it after the feature — SPEC-user-notifications.md, and so on.

Tasks

Check the project's CLAUDE.md first. If it has a checklist that covers this kind of work, build the breakdown on that instead of inventing a generic one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago Changed 7286bc19ce7c
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 39 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A c93f8df1db52

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository leandroz/claude-plugins (15 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 640 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 2026-08-30.

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