spec-driven-development

spec-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code from nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,678 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of spec-driven-development, Apache-2.0.

A development process that writes and reviews a clear specification before coding begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps define what to build, why it is needed, how it will work, and how completion will be checked before implementation.
Why use it?
It reduces misunderstandings when requirements are vague or a change affects several parts of a project.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit It helps define what to build, why it is needed, how it will work, and how completion will be checked before implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles/spec-driven-development
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 nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles --skill spec-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,678 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00043 $0.01678
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00839
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00336
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00168

Measured 8d ago against content hash fabf224ed1c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to spec-driven-development — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

profiles/addyosmani/agent-skills/for-claude/.claude/skills/spec-driven-development/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 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 · 203 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. 8d ago First seen · 203 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A fabf224ed1c0

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spec-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles (65 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,678 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 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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