analyze-func-specs

A checker that compares several functional specifications at once. It finds pairs of requirements that describe incompatible behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check a complete functional-specification section or a batch of new requirements for conflicts.
Why use it?
It replaces checking requirements one pair at a time, making it easier to review a whole group or compare a new requirement with all existing ones.

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/plainlang/plain-forge/analyze-func-specs
Any agent
npx skills add plainlang/plain-forge --skill analyze-func-specs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plainlang/plain-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,245 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 $0.00073 $0.01245
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00622
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00125

Measured 3d ago against content hash abb4b249b6c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyze-func-specs 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 3d 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.

forge/skills/analyze-func-specs/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyze Functional Specs

Always use the skill load-plain-reference to retrieve the ***plain syntax rules — but only if you haven't done so yet.

Input

A set of two or more functional specs to check against each other. Callers typically supply one of:

  • A whole ***functional specs*** section to self-check.
  • A new spec (or batch of new specs) plus the existing specs from the same file and any requires modules.
  • An explicit list of spec snippets the user wants compared.

Each spec must be identifiable. If the caller didn't label them, assign stable identifiers in order of appearance: S1, S2, S3, …. Use those identifiers in the output. If the caller provided their own IDs or quoted snippets, use those instead and keep them verbatim.

The skill also needs the ***definitions*** section (and any imported definitions) so referenced :Concepts: can be resolved.

Workflow

  1. Read all input specs and the relevant ***definitions*** so every :Concept: is understood.
  2. Establish chronological order across the batch. Earlier specs are considered to have been rendered first; later specs are evaluated with the earlier ones in context. If the caller already provided an order, preserve it.
  3. Generate the pair list. Enumerate every unordered pair (Sᵢ, Sⱼ) with i < j. Skip pairs where the two specs share no :Concept: and no overlapping subject — they are trivially compatible and listing them adds noise.
  4. Run the conflict analysis below on each remaining pair. Use the same checklist that the legacy analyze-2-func-specs skill used, but apply it pair by pair across the batch in a single pass — do not require the caller to invoke the analyzer once per pair.
  5. Record every CONFLICTING pair. Compatible pairs are not listed individually; only the conflicts are emitted.
  6. Output the verdict in the format below. No reasoning, no category labels, no resolution suggestions.

Conflict Analysis Checklist (applied per pair)

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 3d ago First seen · 125 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A abb4b249b6c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

analyze-func-specs is a skill published in the GitHub repository plainlang/plain-forge (55 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,245 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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