spec-driven-development

spec-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LLl0k0laD/agent-skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,642 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of spec-driven-development, MIT.

A development process that defines a written specification before planning tasks and writing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new projects, significant features, or architectural decisions, with human review between the specification, plan, tasks, and implementation stages.
Why use it?
It gives people a shared description of the goal, requirements, and completion criteria when an idea is vague or a change is substantial.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for new projects, significant features, or architectural decisions, with human review between the specification, plan, tasks, and implementation stages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lll0k0lad/agent-skills/spec-driven-development
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add LLl0k0laD/agent-skills --skill spec-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LLl0k0laD/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,642 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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00038 $0.01642
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00821
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00328
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00164

Measured 7d ago against content hash 915f6c9c3e93, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-driven-development 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.

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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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to spec-driven-development — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/spec-driven-development/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec-Driven Development

Overview

Write a structured specification before writing any code. The spec is the shared source of truth between you and the human engineer — it defines what we're building, why, and how we'll know it's done. Code without a spec is guessing.

When to Use

  • Starting a new project or feature
  • Requirements are ambiguous or incomplete
  • The change touches multiple files or modules
  • You're about to make an architectural decision
  • The task would take more than 30 minutes to implement

When NOT to use: Single-line fixes, typo corrections, or changes where requirements are unambiguous and self-contained.

The Gated Workflow

Spec-driven development has four phases. Do not advance to the next phase until the current one is validated.

SPECIFY ──→ PLAN ──→ TASKS ──→ IMPLEMENT
   │          │        │          │
   ▼          ▼        ▼          ▼
 Human      Human    Human      Human
 reviews    reviews  reviews    reviews

Phase 1: Specify

Start with a high-level vision. Ask the human clarifying questions until requirements are concrete.

Surface assumptions immediately. Before writing any spec content, list what you're assuming:

ASSUMPTIONS I'M MAKING:
1. This is a web application (not native mobile)
2. Authentication uses session-based cookies (not JWT)
3. The database is PostgreSQL (based on existing Prisma schema)
4. We're targeting modern browsers only (no IE11)
→ Correct me now or I'll proceed with these.

Never silently fill in ambiguous requirements. The spec's entire purpose is to surface misunderstandings before code gets written — assumptions are the most dangerous form of misunderstanding.

Write a spec document covering these six core areas:

  1. Objective — What are we building and why? Who is the user? What does success look like?

  2. Commands — Full executable commands with flags, not just tool names.

    Build: npm run build
    Test: npm test -- --coverage
    Lint: npm run lint --fix
    Dev: npm run dev
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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 · 201 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 915f6c9c3e93

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spec-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository LLl0k0laD/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,642 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to spec-driven-development, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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