spec

A guided, multi-stage planning process for software features. It creates project documents covering the vision, research, codebase context, roadmap, and phase plans.

In plain words
What is it for?
Start a feature plan, create its planning directory and documents, research the codebase and domain, resolve open questions, and prepare sequential implementation phases.
Why use it?
It turns an initial feature idea into an organized plan with discovery, research, clarification, and checkpoints for verifying each output.

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/qgolem/orc/spec
Any agent
npx skills add qGolem/orc --skill spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qGolem/orc

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 731 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 $0.00018 $0.00731
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9a0b6f795c97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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.

skills/spec/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Orc

Orchestrated planning that keeps interactive steps in the main thread.

Input

  • $1 — Feature prompt
  • $2 — Plan slug

Execution

Step 0: Initialize Todos

Step 1: Create Directory

!mkdir -p .claude/plans/$2/phases

Step 2: Vision

Step 3: Discovery (forked)

Step 4: Research (parallel agents)

Step 5: Clarification (interactive x3)

Step 6: Plan Generation (interactive)

Step 7: Report Completion

Output:

Plan created: .claude/plans/$2/

├── PROJECT.md   — Vision and success criteria
├── research/    — Domain ecosystem research
├── STATE.md     — Codebase context
├── ROADMAP.md   — Phase tracking
└── phases/      — Individual phase plans

Next: /orc-swarm [phase N description]

Critical Rules

  1. Execute ALL phases — Do not stop after Phase 1, 2, or 3
  2. Sequential execution — Each phase depends on the previous
  3. Verify outputs — Check each .md file was created before proceeding
  4. Don't skip clarification — Discovery often surfaces questions that change the plan

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 2d ago First seen · 86 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9a0b6f795c97

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository qGolem/orc (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 731 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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