sdd-authoring

sdd-authoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from magnus919/hermes-profiles. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,235 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specification-writing workflow for creating structured, machine-readable requirements for AI-assisted software development. It produces a SPEC.md document as the basis for later planning, implementation, and verification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write user stories, Gherkin scenarios, acceptance criteria, edge cases, non-functional requirements, and data contracts in organized specification files.
Why use it?
It turns unclear requirements into a shared source of truth so later work can be traced back to agreed behavior and acceptance checks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to write user stories, Gherkin scenarios, acceptance criteria, edge cases, non-functional requirements, and data contracts in organized specification files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magnus919/hermes-profiles/sdd-authoring
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 magnus919/hermes-profiles --skill sdd-authoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magnus919/hermes-profiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,235 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00063 $0.01235
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00617
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00123

Measured 12d ago against content hash db113deddf03, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sdd-authoring 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/spec-quality-check.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/sdd-authoring/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SDD Specification Authoring

Writing formal, machine-readable specifications that drive AI-assisted implementation. This skill owns the Specify phase of the SDD pipeline and its output is the prerequisite for all downstream SDD work.

SDD Pipeline Position

INCEPTION → [SPECIFY] → PLAN → TASKS → IMPLEMENT → VERIFY
                ↑
          You are here

The specification is the single source of truth. Every downstream artifact — task plan, architecture, implementation, tests — derives from and traces back to this document. Ambiguity in the spec propagates as defects in every subsequent phase.

Artifact-Pyramid Output: SPEC.md

The specification documents produced by this skill follow the artifact-pyramid structure:

Layer Content File
L1 Executive Summary — one-paragraph scope statement, key stakeholders, overall success criteria 00-index.md (entry point)
L2 Per-dimension specification — user stories, Gherkin scenarios, edge cases, NFRs, out-of-scope, data contracts Individual *.spec.md files
L3 Detailed per-story dossiers — full acceptance criteria, interface definitions, data schemas, examples dossiers/ directory
SOURCES Navigation index linking each L2 dimension to its L3 sources Footer of each file

Loading Guidance

Reference When to load File
Spec Quality Gates Before delivering any SPEC.md — validates completeness against 7 quality dimensions references/spec-quality-gates.md
Gherkin Patterns Writing executable scenarios — Given/When/Then structure for specific patterns references/gherkin-patterns.md
Acceptance Criteria Design Crafting ACs that pass the "no-surprises" test — edge case enumeration, boundary conditions references/acceptance-criteria-design.md
Template When to use File
SPEC.md Producing a specification document from scratch templates/SPEC.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 12d ago First seen · 95 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A db113deddf03

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sdd-authoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository magnus919/hermes-profiles (171 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,235 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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