specx-foundation

specx-foundation is a skill for Codex from maksimzayats/specx. It costs 34 tokens per session (555 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding guideline for choosing or creating base classes in Python services. A base class is a shared parent that defines common structure or rules for related classes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding a service class that needs a base or when introducing a new class category. It guides selection of packaged bases, creation of a justified project-local base, class naming, and usage documentation.
Why use it?
It prevents arbitrary or empty foundation modules and keeps shared behavior in the right part of the project. It also makes class responsibilities and usage clearer through naming, inheritance, and docstrings.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it when adding a service class that needs a base or when introducing a new class category. It guides selection of packaged bases, creation of a justified project-local base, class naming, and usage documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/maksimzayats/specx/specx-foundation
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 maksimzayats/specx --skill specx-foundation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maksimzayats/specx

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 555 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00034 $0.00555
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00278
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00056

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0686fa75da70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

specx-foundation 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.

.agents/skills/specx-foundation/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

specx Foundation

Use this skill when a service class needs an explicit base, or when a new class category may need a project-local foundation base. Read references/foundation.md before editing foundation-related code.

Workflow

  1. Prefer packaged scoped bases from specx.core.foundation, specx.delivery.foundation, and specx.infrastructure.foundation.
  2. Do not create an empty src/<package>/foundation/ package.
  3. Add a project-local foundation/ module only when current code needs a real project-local base category or a stateful framework base that must not be shared globally, such as a SQLAlchemy declarative base.
  4. Keep project-local foundation limited to base definitions: marker bases, common external-base wrappers, justified ABCs, and stateful framework bases. Put stable cross-scope concrete primitives under shared/, not foundation/.
  5. Give every project source class, including each local base, a docstring that explains what it protects and includes a concrete usage example.
  6. Make every non-foundation project source class inherit an explicit scoped base.
  7. Name each class with the suffix implied by its base ancestry, such as TaskDTO, TaskEntity, TaskResponseSchema, CreateTaskUseCase, or TaskTitleNormalizerService.
  8. Use BaseLifecycle for delivery app lifespan managers such as FastAPILifecycle.
  9. Prefer @dataclass(frozen=True, kw_only=True, slots=True) for commands, queries, DTOs, entities, and other core data classes unless the user asks for another model type.
  10. Keep BaseCommand and BaseQuery as use-case input bases, independent from BaseDTO. Commands and queries are not result DTOs.
  11. When an application value has a limited known set, model it with BaseStrEnum instead of plain str or Literal[...].
  12. Keep business rules, delivery behavior, adapter code, and runtime wiring out of project-local foundation modules.

Code Style

Use blank lines as logical separators in all code. Keep related statements together, but separate independent setup, action, assertion, response, branch, and transformation groups so long blocks stay readable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 53 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 0686fa75da70

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specx-foundation is a skill published in the GitHub repository maksimzayats/specx (201 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 555 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.