prd-to-engineering-spec

prd-to-engineering-spec is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from okwinds/miscellany. It costs 113 tokens per session (3,615 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for turning a PRD, or Product Requirements Document, into a detailed engineering specification that developers can implement step by step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to specify data models, APIs, business logic, security, deployment, and AI-agent systems from an existing PRD.
Why use it?
It exposes incomplete requirements before technical design and documents how the system should work without leaving key decisions ambiguous.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/okwinds/miscellany/prd-to-engineering-spec
Any agent
npx skills add okwinds/miscellany --skill prd-to-engineering-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/okwinds/miscellany

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,615 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00113 $0.03615
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01808
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00723
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00362

Measured 6d ago against content hash b109dff01f77, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prd-to-engineering-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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/generate_spec_skeleton.sh, scripts/validate_spec.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

agent/skills/prd-to-engineering-spec/SKILL.md · 383 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 383 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PRD to Engineering Spec

Overview

Transform product requirements into engineering specifications so complete that developers can implement the entire system step-by-step without ambiguity, and the resulting system can be replicated or migrated without information loss.

Skill Workflow Context

┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐
│ prd-writing-    │────►│ prd-to-         │     │ reverse-        │
│ guide           │     │ engineering-    │     │ engineering-    │
│ Write PRD       │     │ spec            │     │ spec            │
│                 │     │ [THIS SKILL]   │     │ Code→Spec       │
└─────────────────┘     └─────────────────┘     └─────────────────┘
         │
         ▼  For AI Agent products:
┌─────────────────┐
│ ai-agent-prd    │────► This skill handles Agent PRD conversion too
└─────────────────┘

Input: Complete PRD (from prd-writing-guide or ai-agent-prd) Output: Engineering specifications at replicability-grade detail

Core Principle: Validate PRD first, design second. Incomplete requirements → incomplete specs.

Quick Start

  1. Validate PRD against prd-validation-checklist.md
  2. For Agent systems, also validate with agent-system-spec.md
  3. Generate defect report; do NOT proceed until all ❌ resolved
  4. Run bash scripts/generate_spec_skeleton.sh
  5. Apply the Engineering Lenses to every component
  6. Fill specs using spec-templates.md
  7. Validate with bash scripts/validate_spec.sh

The Engineering Lenses

Apply these seven lenses to every component during Phases 2-3. They are the engineering equivalent of prd-writing-guide's Seven Lenses.

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    The Engineering Lenses                         │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                                  │
│  1. ARCHITECTURE  How does it fit? Layers, modules, comms.       │
│  2. DATA          How modeled, validated, stored, migrated?      │
│  3. CONTRACT      Interfaces? Versioning? What breaks?           │
│  4. FAILURE       How does it fail? Detect, recover, cascade?    │
│  5. SECURITY      Auth, authz, encryption, audit, secrets?       │
│  6. OPERATIONS    Deploy, configure, monitor, scale, rollback?   │
│  7. REPLICABILITY All configs, deps, assumptions documented?     │
│                                                                  │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 383 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. 6d ago First seen · 383 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A b109dff01f77

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prd-to-engineering-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository okwinds/miscellany (50 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 3,615 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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