ai-spec-project-start

ai-spec-project-start is a skill for Codex from LiveTrack-X/spec-driven-ai-development. It costs 67 tokens per session (3,060 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project setup and repair tool for SDAD, a system that keeps AI work organized through shared state files, evidence records, and handoffs between sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install or upgrade SDAD, move an existing project into it, repair its state files and tracking records, or run diagnostic checks.
Why use it?
It helps recover when project records become inconsistent or missing, and checks whether the SDAD control system is working correctly.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to install or upgrade SDAD, move an existing project into it, repair its state files and tracking records, or run diagnostic checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/livetrack-x/spec-driven-ai-development/ai-spec-project-start
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add LiveTrack-X/spec-driven-ai-development --skill ai-spec-project-start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LiveTrack-X/spec-driven-ai-development

Made for: 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 3,060 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 $0.00067 $0.03060
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01530
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00612
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00306

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9649aeaeccea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-spec-project-start 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 8d 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.

skills/ai-spec-project-start/SKILL.md · 324 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 324 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI-SPEC Project Start

Create the smallest SDAD control plane that lets an owner direct AI work, separate evidence from confidence, and keep future sessions recoverable.

Reference Routing

Read references only when their trigger applies:

  • Read references/runtime-contract.md before creating or changing an SDAD control surface. It owns steady-state v2 scale, execution scope, owner gates, targeted routes, evidence, and stop semantics.
  • Read references/starter-templates.md when bootstrapping or repairing Standard/Full control files.
  • Read references/field-patterns.md when translating lessons from another project, release/migration practice, or a reference implementation.
  • Read references/implicit-rules.md when creating or repairing Core 5/control rules, or when repeated confusion or failure should become a rule, playbook, test, validator, or template.

Do not load every reference by default.

Workflow

1. Inspect Capability And Existing State

Determine whether the environment can edit the project filesystem.

Use this skill as a one-time bootstrap, install, upgrade, migration, repair, or diagnosis entry point, not a per-session prompt. After setup, ordinary sessions start with the installed repository adapter, then sdad-state.yaml, then docs/INDEX.md; they invoke this skill again only for an SDAD-specific operation named by the frontmatter trigger.

  • In chat-only environments, plan and explain only. Do not install files or claim they were saved.
  • In file-editing environments, inspect repository instructions, current files, version control state, source/tests, and existing SDAD surfaces before proposing changes.
  • Preserve unrelated owner changes. Do not replace an existing control system merely because SDAD was requested.
  • Treat review/audit requests as read-only unless the request also authorizes a change.

Read the full file on GitHub · 324 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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. 8d ago First seen · 324 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 9649aeaeccea

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ai-spec-project-start is a skill published in the GitHub repository LiveTrack-X/spec-driven-ai-development (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 3,060 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 2026-08-31.

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