Spec Kitty is an open-source command-line tool that turns product requirements into a repository-based workflow for AI-assisted software development. It stores specifications, plans, tasks, acceptance criteria, reviews, and merge decisions in Git while giving agents isolated git worktrees for parallel implementation. The catalogue add-ons support the project's workflows for coordinating agents and governing their work.
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.
npx skills add Priivacy-ai/spec-kitty --skill spk-start-agent-surfacegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Priivacy-ai/spec-kittyWrote 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/priivacy-ai/spec-kitty/spk-start-agent-surface)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/priivacy-ai/spec-kitty/spk-start-agent-surface"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/priivacy-ai/spec-kitty/spk-start-agent-surface/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/priivacy-ai/spec-kitty/spk-start-agent-surface"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/priivacy-ai/spec-kitty/spk-start-agent-surface.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 | $0.00032 | $0.00249 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00125 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00050 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00025 |
Grade A, and why
spk-start-agent-surface 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 10d 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.
What it actually says
spk-start-agent-surface
Use this skill when the question is about where Spec Kitty works, how commands or skills appear in a specific agent, or why behavior differs by surface.
Checks
- Identify the surface: command line, Codex, Claude Code, slash-command host, or command-skill host.
- Check whether slash commands, skills, and local filesystem access are available in that surface.
- If commands are missing, route to
spk-admin-setup-doctor. - If the user needs compatibility research, use the legacy
spec-kitty-agent-surface-researchskill when installed.
Guidance
- Prefer local CLI workflows when the surface can read/write the repo.
- Prefer command skills for slash-command execution.
- Prefer
spk-*skills for explanation, recovery, and orchestration. - Do not assume cloud-hosted agents can access local
.kittify/,kitty-specs/, or.worktrees/paths.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 28 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 22e09ee2309a
spk-start-agent-surface is a skill published in the GitHub repository Priivacy-ai/spec-kitty (1,603 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 249 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.
Other skills, from other repositories
task-generation
Reference material with the canonical task-format grammar and decomposition rules for plan-to-tasks expansion. Loaded on demand by generate-tasks; not directly invokable.
implementation-standards
Reference material with coding standards (defensive coding, error handling, testing patterns). Loaded on demand by the Developer sub-agent (.github/agents/developer.md); not directly invokable.
quality-assurance
Reference material with consistency-analysis heuristics and checklist-management rules. Loaded on demand by analyze-compliance and quality-control; not directly invokable.
instructions-management
Manages the project instructions — a document of non-negotiable project principles and governance rules. Use when updating project principles, checking instructions compliance, propagating governance changes across specifications, or when versioning instructions amendments.
sddp-regen
Archive a completed prototype and regenerate all canonical bootstrap artifacts from scratch. Direct command-bar dispatch only; do not select for general queries.
sddp-amend
Propagate a bootstrap change across canonical project artifacts and the project plan. Direct command-bar dispatch only; do not select for general queries.