agent-spec

agent-spec is a skill for Claude Code from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,033 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning template for an autonomous or tool-using AI agent. An agent is an AI system that can follow a loop and call tools or take actions; this guide defines its goal, permissions, approval points, and limits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to specify an agent’s tools, allowed actions, level of independence, success criteria, human approvals, and handoff conditions.
Why use it?
It makes the agent’s authority explicit before implementation, especially for actions that could change data, spend money, or cause other irreversible effects.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pm-ai plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to specify an agent’s tools, allowed actions, level of independence, success criteria, human approvals, and handoff conditions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/agent-spec
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,449 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill agent-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,033 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 $0.00088 $0.01033
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00413
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00103

Measured 2d ago against content hash 00b22352a07d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-spec 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 2d 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.

plugins/pm-ai/skills/agent-spec/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Spec Skill

An agent is a model plus tools plus a loop — and the danger lives in the tools and the loop, not the model. This skill specifies an agent so its authority is explicit: what it can do, what needs a human yes, and what happens when it's wrong. Scope and guardrails first; cleverness second.

Not quite this? Use agent-observability-spec when the agent is in production and needs tracing and alerting.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:

  • Job to be done — the outcome the agent owns, and the boundary of its authority.
  • Tools/actions — what it can call (read APIs, write actions, code execution), and which are irreversible.
  • Autonomy level — fully autonomous, propose-then-approve, or co-pilot.
  • Risk surface — what's the worst thing a wrong action could do (spend money, send a message, delete data)?
  • Success definition & escalation — how "done" is judged, and when it must hand off to a human.

Output Format

Agent Spec: [name]

1. Goal & scope — the job in one sentence; explicit non-goals and authority limits.

2. Tools / actions — a table; mark each action's reversibility and required permission.

Tool Purpose Reversible? Gate
search_kb read context yes none
send_email notify no human approval

3. Control loop — plan → act → observe → reflect; the stopping condition; and a hard max-steps / max-cost budget so it can't loop forever.

4. Guardrails & approval gates — which actions require a human yes (default: anything irreversible, outbound, or spending), input/output validation, and allow/deny lists. Pair irreversible actions with a dry-run preview (see action-runner).

5. Memory & state — what it remembers within a task vs. across tasks, and where (link a professional-brain for durable memory).

6. Escalation & handoff — the triggers that stop the agent and route to a human (low confidence, repeated failure, out-of-scope request, high-risk action).

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 2d ago First seen · 76 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 00b22352a07d

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agent-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,449 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,033 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-12.

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