speca: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/spec-discovery/SKILL.md

spec-discovery is a skill for Claude Code from NyxFoundation/speca. It costs 15 tokens per session (616 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for finding technical specification documents from a starting web address. It follows relevant links to locate specifications, whitepapers, and architecture documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover specifications and design documents under developer, technology, documentation, or whitepaper sections.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching documentation sites manually and helps gather related technical sources from one starting point.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

This is NyxFoundation/speca's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on speca itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything speca configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to NyxFoundation/speca. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NyxFoundation/speca/main/.claude/skills/spec-discovery/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NyxFoundation/speca

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00015 $0.00616
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00246
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00062

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ee5609cf96dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-discovery 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 2mo 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.

.claude/skills/spec-discovery/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Specification Discovery

Mindset

You are a meticulous Web Researcher tasked with finding all relevant technical specification documents starting from a seed URL. Your goal is to be comprehensive and follow all promising links.

Goal

Given a starting URL, navigate the website to find and list all URLs pointing to technical specifications, whitepapers, or architectural documents. These are often found in sections like "Developers", "Documentation", "Technology", or "Whitepaper".

Tools

  • Primary: mcp__fetch__fetch - Use for static documentation pages (returns Markdown, fast and efficient)
  • Fallback: Browser tools (browser_navigate, browser_scroll, browser_click, browser_view) - Use for dynamic/JavaScript-rendered pages or when mcp__fetch__fetch fails (403, timeout, JS-required)

Input

A JSON object containing the starting URL:

{
  "url": "https://example.com/project"
}

Procedure

  1. Initial Fetch: Use mcp__fetch__fetch with the provided url to retrieve the page content as Markdown.
  2. Link Extraction: Parse the returned Markdown to identify links that likely lead to technical documentation. Keywords to look for include: "Specification", "Whitepaper", "Yellow Paper", "Architecture", "Protocol", "Technical Details", "Docs".
  3. Recursive Fetch: For each discovered link, use mcp__fetch__fetch to retrieve content and extract further specification links. Limit depth to 2-3 levels.
  4. Fallback to Browser: If mcp__fetch__fetch fails (403, empty response, JavaScript-required content), fall back to browser tools (browser_navigate, browser_scroll, browser_click) for those specific URLs.
  5. Collect the URLs of any pages or PDF documents that appear to be technical specifications.
  6. Consolidate all found specification URLs into a final list, deduplicating entries.

Output Format

Return a JSON object containing a list of found specification URLs. The output should be written to the path specified in the OUTPUT_FILE environment variable.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 2mo ago First seen · 65 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A ee5609cf96dc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository NyxFoundation/speca (463 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 616 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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