spec-driven-development

spec-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from naimkatiman/continuous-improvement. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,675 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of spec-driven-development, MIT.

A workflow for writing a structured specification before coding a new project, feature, or significant change. The specification records what will be built, why, and how completion will be checked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define requirements, surface assumptions, plan multi-file changes, create implementation tasks, and set testable acceptance criteria.
Why use it?
It turns vague or incomplete requirements into an agreed plan before implementation begins. Human review at each phase helps catch misunderstandings early.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 21 skills shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/spec-driven-development
Any agent
npx skills add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement --skill spec-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

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When invoked 1,675 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00043 $0.01675
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00838
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00335
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00168

Measured yesterday against content hash 6d098845420d, 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 yesterday.

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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.

Origin

This is a copy

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third-party/addy-agent-skills/skills/spec-driven-development/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec-Driven Development

Overview

Write a structured specification before writing any code. The spec is the shared source of truth between you and the human engineer — it defines what we're building, why, and how we'll know it's done. Code without a spec is guessing.

When to Use

  • Starting a new project or feature
  • Requirements are ambiguous or incomplete
  • The change touches multiple files or modules
  • You're about to make an architectural decision
  • The task would take more than 30 minutes to implement

When NOT to use: Single-line fixes, typo corrections, or changes where requirements are unambiguous and self-contained.

The Gated Workflow

Spec-driven development has four phases. Do not advance to the next phase until the current one is validated.

SPECIFY ──→ PLAN ──→ TASKS ──→ IMPLEMENT
   │          │        │          │
   ▼          ▼        ▼          ▼
 Human      Human    Human      Human
 reviews    reviews  reviews    reviews

Phase 1: Specify

Start with a high-level vision. Ask the human clarifying questions until requirements are concrete.

Surface assumptions immediately. Before writing any spec content, list what you're assuming:

ASSUMPTIONS I'M MAKING:
1. This is a web application (not native mobile)
2. Authentication uses session-based cookies (not JWT)
3. The database is PostgreSQL (based on existing Prisma schema)
4. We're targeting modern browsers only (no IE11)
→ Correct me now or I'll proceed with these.

Don't silently fill in ambiguous requirements. The spec's entire purpose is to surface misunderstandings before code gets written — assumptions are the most dangerous form of misunderstanding.

Write a spec document covering these six core areas:

  1. Objective — What are we building and why? Who is the user? What does success look like?

  2. Commands — Full executable commands with flags, not just tool names.

    Build: npm run build
    Test: npm test -- --coverage
    Lint: npm run lint --fix
    Dev: npm run dev
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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  1. yesterday First seen · 201 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 6d098845420d

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spec-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository naimkatiman/continuous-improvement (7 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,675 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to spec-driven-development, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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