spec-driven-implementation

spec-driven-implementation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 52 tokens per session (727 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for keeping behavioral specifications up to date while a significant feature is implemented. A behavioral specification describes what users or systems should observe, rather than how the code is built.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a feature has an existing specification or needs one updated alongside the code.
Why use it?
It helps prevent the implementation from drifting beyond the agreed behavior. It also catches undocumented additions and scope expansion.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the odin-code plugin — 52 skills shipped together

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/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/spec-driven-implementation
Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill spec-driven-implementation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 52 skills.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 727 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 $0.00052 $0.00727
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00364
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00073

Measured yesterday against content hash 1fb5ca39fa90, 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-implementation 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.

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.

plugins/odin-code/skills/spec-driven-implementation/SKILL.md · 43 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 43 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec driven implementation

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger Starting a significant feature or when specs are checked in.
Authority Reversible local writes only; rollback via VCS if commit is not yet pushed.
Side effect Creates or updates checked-in spec files within the project.
Done Specs exist, are behavioral, and stay current with what ships.

Inputs

  • Feature brief (required): natural-language description of the feature to implement.
  • Existing specs (optional): any spec files already present in the project. If absent, the skill treats the feature as greenfield.
  • Scope anchor (required): the module, package, or directory boundary the feature affects.

Refusal

  • Spec drift: implementation adds behavior not covered by any spec. Remove the undocumented behavior or add a covering spec before proceeding.
  • Scope overrun: the feature brief names more surface than the scope anchor. Stop and report the overrun; do not widen scope without explicit human confirmation.
  • Non-behavioral spec: a proposed spec line describes a solution rather than behavior. Reject it; replace with an observable criterion.
  • Unreachable rollback: VCS commit already pushed. Authority is exhausted; surface the conflict and stop. Do not overwrite remote history.

Procedure

  1. Bound the scope. From the feature brief and scope anchor, enumerate every file that will be created or modified. If the scope is ambiguous, stop and state the ambiguity rather than inferring a larger surface. Done when: the file set is enumerated or ambiguity is reported.
  2. Audit existing specs. For each spec file already present in the affected scope, verify it is behavioral: each statement describes observable behavior or acceptance criteria, not implementation design. Discard or narrow any spec line that prescribes a solution path. Done when: every existing spec is verified behavioral.
  3. Identify spec gaps. Map every feature-brief item to at least one behavioral statement. Mark any item that cannot be expressed as observable behavior as out of scope. Done when: every brief item maps to a behavioral statement or is marked out of scope.
  4. Write or update spec files. For each gap, add a new spec section with a unique label, the behavioral statement, any preconditions and expected outcomes, and the pass/fail criterion that a test could verify. Place each spec in the file that most directly covers the affected surface. Done when: every gap has a spec section.
  5. Verify spec-implementation alignment. Confirm that no spec file contradicts an existing implementation. If a conflict exists, surface it before writing. Done when: no spec contradicts existing implementation.
  6. Write or confirm the implementation. Implement the feature to satisfy the spec. Do not add behavior not described by a spec. Done when: the implementation satisfies every spec.
  7. Commit with a spec-referencing message. VCS-commit the spec and implementation files with a message that names the spec label(s) satisfied. Done when: one commit names the satisfied spec labels.

Read the full file on GitHub · 43 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday First seen · 43 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 1fb5ca39fa90

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spec-driven-implementation is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 727 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-04.

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