spec-driven-requirements-writer

spec-driven-requirements-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lindoelio/spec-driven-steroids. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,670 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A requirements-writing guide for turning a feature idea into a short, testable requirements.md document. It describes expected behavior without specifying the design or code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define user or business needs, record constraints, assign requirement IDs, and validate whether the wording is clear and testable.
Why use it?
It helps prevent vague feature requests and gives later design and implementation work a stable checklist to follow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to define user or business needs, record constraints, assign requirement IDs, and validate whether the wording is clear and testable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lindoelio/spec-driven-steroids/spec-driven-requirements-writer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add lindoelio/spec-driven-steroids --skill spec-driven-requirements-writer
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 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,670 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 high

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 →

  • high System Prompt Leakage · line 124
    Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.
    Fix: Remove any instructions that reveal, print, or output system prompts or internal rules. System instructions should never be exposed to end users.
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 $0.00065 $0.01670
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00835
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00334
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00167

Measured 10d ago against content hash 28d1b9e1a142, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-driven-requirements-writer 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 10d 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-requirements-writer/SKILL.md · 194 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec-Driven Requirements Writer Skill

Write a requirements.md document using concise, testable, EARS-syntax requirements.

Your job is to produce a clean requirements artifact that:

  • defines the user/business need clearly
  • avoids design and implementation details
  • gives downstream design and task generation enough structure to work reliably
  • preserves traceability through stable requirement IDs

Default path: analyze the request, extract actors and constraints, write concise EARS requirements, validate them, save requirements.md, and return a short review-ready summary.

Read references/requirements-patterns.md when you need example EARS phrasing, stronger observable verbs, or recovery examples for invalid requirement wording.

Shared Protocol

Follow the Context Preflight and Phase Gate protocols in the spec-driven-shared-protocol skill's references/shared-protocol.md.

Per-Phase Todo List

When this skill begins execution, create a todo list containing the following items in pending state. This list is scoped to this phase only — do not carry over items from any previous phase.

  1. Read project guidelines
  2. Retrieve contextual memory (business)
  3. Analyze user description and context
  4. Extract actors, actions, and constraints
  5. Write EARS requirements
  6. Save requirements.md
  7. Run CLI validation (sds validate requirements)
  8. Complete quality bar self-check
  9. Fix validation failures (if any)
  10. Declare verdict

Progress Rules

  • Mark an item in_progress when starting that work step.
  • Mark an item completed only after the work step has been verified.
  • Do not mark an item completed until verification passes.
  • Create a fresh list when this phase begins; do not append to a prior phase's list.

Output File

.specs/changes/<slug>/requirements.md

IMPORTANT: Only requirements.md is a valid spec document name for requirements. The spec-driven workflow strictly requires exactly three document types: requirements.md, design.md, and tasks.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 194 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. 10d ago First seen · 194 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 28d1b9e1a142

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spec-driven-requirements-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository lindoelio/spec-driven-steroids (54 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,670 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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