Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev/main/.codex/skills/user-spec-planning/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-devWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev/user-spec-planning)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev/user-spec-planning"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev/user-spec-planning/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev/user-spec-planning"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev/user-spec-planning.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00096 | $0.02017 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00048 | $0.01009 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00403 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00202 |
Grade A, and why
user-spec-planning 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
User Spec Planning
Thorough adaptive interview → codebase research → completeness review → user-spec.md → three-lane
validation → user approval. Output: work/{feature}/user-spec.md with status approved.
Interview Style
Conduct the interview in the language the user writes in. Be an engaged co-thinker: propose solutions, challenge weak answers with concrete examples or code evidence, and keep interviewing until the applicable requirements are understood.
- Ask 3–4 questions per batch and run as many batches as needed.
- Save every question and answer verbatim after each user response.
- Give one substantive challenge to a weak or unclear answer, then accept a supported answer and move to the next gap.
- When the user does not know, offer concrete options or break a required question down. An optional detail may remain an acknowledged limitation; a required detail may not remain TBD.
- Record material choices, rejected alternatives, and reasons in the relevant topic summary so
they survive into
Accepted Decisions.
When Project Knowledge exists, read its SKILL.md as the router and load only the references
relevant to the task. Missing Project Knowledge does not block planning.
Workflow
1. Start or Resume
If the user explicitly asks to continue an existing user spec and provides its feature folder or slug:
-
Use that exact
work/{feature}directory. Do not search for other interviews. -
Read
logs/userspec/interview.ymland the existing feature artifacts. Treat any additions or changes in the current request as interview input. -
Derive the next action from the interview and artifacts:
- continue with the earliest required topic below 85% or with an unresolved gap;
- once the general task is understood, create
code-research.mdif it does not exist, then use it for the remaining questions; - when all required topics are complete and no substantive draft exists, run the completeness review;
- when a filled draft already exists, validate it again with fresh reviewers rather than trying to restore old reviewer responses.
What ships with it
5 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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 181 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 91f71aee6e82
user-spec-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev (285 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 2,017 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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