issue-spec

issue-spec is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from onsager-ai/dev-skills. It costs 192 tokens per session (4,848 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for writing focused GitHub issues that serve as specifications for software work. It follows a method called specification-driven development, where people and AI agree on the intended change before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to turn a feature idea or planned change into a concise GitHub specification issue for the current repository.
Why use it?
It gives coding work a shared, written target and keeps the specification in the issue tracker instead of scattered across separate files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/onsager-ai/dev-skills/issue-spec
Any agent
npx skills add onsager-ai/dev-skills --skill issue-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onsager-ai/dev-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for issue-spec

README.md
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Per session 192 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,848 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 $0.00192 $0.04848
Opus 5 $0.00096 $0.02424
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00970
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00485

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8e83a72aaad1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/spec-list.sh, scripts/spec-show.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.

skills/issue-spec/SKILL.md · 301 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 301 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

issue-spec

Create GitHub issues as lean-spec style specifications for human-AI aligned implementation on whatever repo this skill is installed in. GitHub issues are the sole spec medium — no spec files.

This skill is the repo-agnostic methodology half of the contract. Each consumer repo overlays its own delta in two places:

  • Repo CLAUDE.md — names the GitHub slug (codervisor/lean-spec, onsager-ai/onsager, onsager-ai/duhem, …) and any repo-specific spec principles (e.g. Onsager's Reach + seam rule, lean-spec's provider-agnostic core + i18n, Duhem's worked-example + schema-impact).
  • <repo>-dev-process sister skill — carries the area-label taxonomy, the spec-vs-trivial gate, the SDD loop wiring, and the repo's pre-push check gate + CI-failure patterns.
  • Global pre-push / pr-lifecycle skills — the shared pre-push and post-push methodology (installed from onsager-ai/dev-skills). The consumer repo overlays only its gate command, collision patterns, and any pr-spec-sync automation via CLAUDE.md / <repo>-dev-process; the skills themselves are not per-repo.

When in doubt about the target repo, run git remote -v and read the repo's CLAUDE.md and its *-dev-process skill before drafting the spec body.

Why GitHub Issues, Not Files

lean-spec uses Markdown files with YAML frontmatter for metadata. We replace that entirely with GitHub issues because:

  • Status → Issue state (open/closed)
  • Priority → Labels (priority:critical, priority:high, priority:medium, priority:low)
  • Tags → Labels (area:<subsystem>, feat, fix, refactor, perf)
  • Dependencies → Issue references (depends on #42) and sub-issues
  • Parent/Child → Sub-issues via mcp__github__sub_issue_write
  • Transitions → Issue timeline (automatic, auditable)
  • Collaboration → Comments, reactions, assignments, mentions

GitHub gives us versioned metadata, collaboration, and relationship tracking for free. No CLI needed, no frontmatter to manage, no sync problems.

Read the full file on GitHub · 301 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 301 lines · 192 tokens per session scan A 8e83a72aaad1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

issue-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository onsager-ai/dev-skills (5 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 192 tokens to every session and 4,848 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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