octospec-init

octospec-init is a skill for Claude Code from Mininglamp-OSS/octo-spec. It costs 180 tokens per session (1,616 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A one-time setup guide for adding the octospec engineering standard to a repository that does not have it yet.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when onboarding octospec, initializing it, or adding the octo-spec standard to a fresh checkout.
Why use it?
It gives a new repository the files and structure needed to follow octospec. After setup, another workflow handles everyday development tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is GLOBAL_SRC=/path/to/octo-spec ./.octospec/scripts/octospec-sync.sh.

Good fit Use it when onboarding octospec, initializing it, or adding the octo-spec standard to a fresh checkout.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mininglamp-OSS/octo-spec
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mininglamp-oss/octo-spec/octospec-init

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 180 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,616 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 $0.00180 $0.01616
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.00808
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00323
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00162

Measured 11d ago against content hash d0a8a59df99e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

octospec-init 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 11d 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.

templates/octospec-init/.claude/skills/octospec-init/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

octospec-init (onboarding)

This skill is the one-time接入引导 for the octospec engineering standard. Run it when a repo does NOT yet carry .octospec/ and you want to add it. There is no onboarding CLI subcommand or flag to invoke — onboarding is simply the handful of real shell steps below, run by hand.

Relationship: init = one-time onboarding (this skill). Once .octospec/ exists and syncs cleanly, day-to-day work hands off to the octospec-workflow skill (the runtime 4-phase flow: Plan, Implement, Verify, Finish). The two do not overlap — init wires the repo up, workflow drives changes afterward.

When to run this

Run it when:

  • the repo has no .octospec/ directory yet, and
  • you want this repo to follow the octo-spec shared standard.

Do NOT run it if .octospec/ already exists and octospec-sync.sh succeeds — that repo is already onboarded; switch to the octospec-workflow skill.

Steps

1. Copy the template skeleton

Copy templates/octospec-init from an octo-spec checkout into .octospec/ at the root of the target repo. This carries the rules index, task/journal scaffolding, the .claude/ commands + skills, and its own scripts/ (so the synced repo holds the sync tooling itself).

cp -r <path-to>/octo-spec/templates/octospec-init .octospec

2. Pin the global version and fill in metadata

Edit .octospec/manifest.yaml:

  • Pin the global ("constitution") version you inherit: inherits: octo-spec@<semver> — use the exact version of the octo-spec checkout you are syncing from. Read it from that checkout's VERSION file (cat <path-to>/octo-spec/VERSION) rather than hardcoding a number here, so this instruction never drifts when octo-spec bumps its version. For example, if VERSION says 1.2.0, set inherits: [email protected]. The pin must match the GLOBAL_SRC checkout's VERSION exactly or octospec-sync.sh fails the version assertion. The template manifest already ships pinned to this checkout's version, so when you sync from the same checkout no edit is needed.
  • Set tier (default repo — the global layer lives in octo-spec itself).
  • Set owner to the team or person responsible for this repo's .octospec/.

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 11d ago First seen · 130 lines · 180 tokens per session scan A d0a8a59df99e

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octospec-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mininglamp-OSS/octo-spec (19 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 180 tokens to every session and 1,616 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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