spec-driven-development

spec-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mb-mal/claudecode-dev-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,037 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A development method that treats a detailed specification as the contract for building software. A specification describes expected inputs, outputs, errors, and rules; OpenAPI and JSON Schema are common specification formats.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for APIs, integrations, and complex features with OpenAPI definitions, JSON schemas, or detailed requirements. It helps review the specification, identify gaps, implement against it, and check that the result matches.
Why use it?
It reduces ambiguity between requirements and implementation, especially when a feature has many conditions. The same document can guide clarification, coding, and verification.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mb-mal/claudecode-dev-skills/spec-driven-development
Any agent
npx skills add mb-mal/claudecode-dev-skills --skill spec-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mb-mal/claudecode-dev-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,037 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00053 $0.01037
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00518
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00104

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9b95201ee734, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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/spec-driven-development/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec-Driven Development

Use specifications as the source of truth for implementation.

Workflow

  1. Review specification: Parse provided spec (OpenAPI, JSON Schema, requirements doc)
  2. Clarify ambiguities: Ask about unclear edge cases or missing details
  3. Validate spec completeness: Check for inputs, outputs, errors, constraints
  4. Implement to spec: Generate code that matches the specification exactly
  5. Verify against spec: Ensure all requirements are covered

Specification formats

OpenAPI/Swagger (for APIs)

paths:
  /api/orders:
    post:
      summary: Create new order
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required: [customer_id, items]
              properties:
                customer_id:
                  type: integer
                items:
                  type: array
                  minItems: 1
                  items:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      product_id: { type: integer }
                      quantity: { type: integer, minimum: 1 }
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Order created
        '400':
          description: Invalid request

JSON Schema (for data structures)

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["name", "email"],
  "properties": {
    "name": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 },
    "email": { "type": "string", "format": "email" },
    "age": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 0 }
  }
}

Structured requirements (for features)

Feature: Order creation

Input:
- customer_id: integer, required
- items: array of {product_id, quantity}, min 1 item

Behavior:
- Verify all products exist in catalog
- Check stock availability for each item
- If any item unavailable → return 400 with list of unavailable items
- Create order in 'draft' status
- Reserve inventory

Output (201):
- order_id: string (UUID)
- total_amount: decimal
- created_at: ISO 8601 timestamp

Errors:
- 400: Invalid input or unavailable items
- 404: Customer not found

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. 3d ago First seen · 168 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 9b95201ee734

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository mb-mal/claudecode-dev-skills (5 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,037 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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