spec-driven-brief-planner

spec-driven-brief-planner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lindoelio/spec-driven-steroids. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,122 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning workflow for small, bounded software changes that still need a written plan and human approval. It creates one brief.md file under .specs/changes before implementation and does not write code until the brief is approved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate the relevant repository code, propose a short change name, write and validate a brief plan, wait for approval, and then implement the approved work. It escalates changes involving security, stored data, public interfaces, architecture, deployment, major performance concerns, or larger scope.
Why use it?
It gives a compact record of the intended change while preventing implementation from starting before the plan is accepted. It also detects when a small change has risks that require a fuller planning process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to investigate the relevant repository code, propose a short change name, write and validate a brief plan, wait for approval, and then implement the approved work. It escalates changes involving security, stored data, public interfaces, architecture, deployment, major performance concerns, or larger scope.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lindoelio/spec-driven-steroids/spec-driven-brief-planner
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add lindoelio/spec-driven-steroids --skill spec-driven-brief-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lindoelio/spec-driven-steroids

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,122 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 99
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00067 $0.01122
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00561
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00112

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6bbb1cdb6d8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-driven-brief-planner 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 9d 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.

packages/cli/templates/universal/skills/spec-driven-brief-planner/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec-Driven Brief Planner

Use one compact artifact and one approval for changes that do not require the full requirements, design, and tasks lifecycle.

Contract

  • Write .specs/changes/<slug>/brief.md before implementation.
  • Do not write implementation code until the user explicitly approves the brief.
  • Do not create requirements.md, design.md, or tasks.md in the brief lane.
  • If full-lane risk appears, stop and escalate before continuing.

Full-Lane Escalation

Escalate when any condition is true:

  • security, authentication, authorization, privacy, secrets, or compliance changes
  • persisted data, schema, migration, or persisted-format changes
  • public API, external contract, wire-format, or backward-compatibility changes
  • architecture changes across packages, services, or runtime boundaries
  • new production dependency, deployment, rollback, or infrastructure work
  • critical concurrency, availability, or performance behavior
  • more than 5 requirements or more than 8 implementation tasks

Planning Workflow

  1. Propose a short URL-friendly slug.
  2. Read only repository guidance relevant to this change.
  3. Inspect targeted existing code before naming files or verification commands.
  4. Work inline by default. Use at most one explore sub-agent only when the investigation would otherwise require more than three independent searches. Do not repeat delegated searches.
  5. Write .specs/changes/<slug>/brief.md using the exact format below.
  6. Run sds validate structure <slug> and sds validate brief .specs/changes/<slug>/brief.md.
  7. Fix validation failures and re-run both commands.
  8. Stop and ask: Verdict: PASS. Approve brief <slug> for implementation?

Brief Format

# Change Brief

**Lane:** brief

## Intent

<problem, expected outcome, and scope boundary>

## Non-Goals

- <explicitly excluded behavior>

## Acceptance Criteria

- REQ-1: <observable outcome>
- REQ-2: <observable outcome>

## Repository Evidence

- Existing: `path/to/file.ts` - <evidence and role in the change>
- New: `path/to/test.ts` - <planned role>

## Implementation Plan

- [ ] 1. <concrete action>
  - Change: <exact scoped change>
  - Files: `path/to/file.ts`
  - Verify: `focused command or observable check`
  - _Implements: REQ-1_

## Risks

- <optional low or medium risk>

## Final Verification

- `final command or observable check`

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. 9d ago First seen · 146 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6bbb1cdb6d8c

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spec-driven-brief-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository lindoelio/spec-driven-steroids (54 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,122 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 2026-08-30.

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