write-tech-spec

write-tech-spec is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PyModel/pythinker-cli. It costs 17 tokens per session (215 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A process for turning product requirements and existing code into a technical implementation specification. It explains the proposed design, affected systems, testing, migration, and risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document APIs, data models, UI changes, compatibility concerns, security implications, implementation phases, and verification steps.
Why use it?
It connects a user need to concrete engineering work without relying on guesses or over-designed solutions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to document APIs, data models, UI changes, compatibility concerns, security implications, implementation phases, and verification steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pymodel/pythinker-cli/write-tech-spec
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add PyModel/pythinker-cli --skill write-tech-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PyModel/pythinker-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 215 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00017 $0.00215
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00086
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00043
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00021

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 372494bc53b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-tech-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 1mo 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.

src/pythinker_code/skills/write-tech-spec/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Write Tech Spec

Use when the user asks for a technical spec, implementation plan, architecture note, or product-spec-to-engineering breakdown.

Workflow

  1. Read the product requirements or issue context.
  2. Scout the relevant code paths, APIs, tests, and constraints.
  3. Propose the smallest architecture that satisfies the requirements.
  4. Identify data model, API, UI, migration, compatibility, and security implications.
  5. Define implementation phases and verification gates.

Rules

  • Ground the spec in existing code evidence; cite paths where possible.
  • Prefer incremental, reversible changes.
  • Do not over-design speculative extension points.
  • Surface open questions and risky trade-offs explicitly.

Output

# Technical Spec: <title>

## Context
## Existing Code Evidence
## Proposed Design
## Implementation Plan
## Testing / Verification
## Migration / Compatibility
## Security / Privacy
## Risks
## Open Questions
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. 1mo ago First seen · 40 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 372494bc53b7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

write-tech-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository PyModel/pythinker-cli (21 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 215 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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