using-specode

using-specode is a skill for Claude Code from qxbyte/pluginhub. It costs 67 tokens per session (596 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-start guide for Specode, a five-command workflow for writing, executing, checking, and recording software specifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
It documents the spec, continue, execute, list, and distill commands, their required files, and how hosts without matching tools should adapt.
Why use it?
It tells the coding agent when Specode should be activated and explains the files and phases the workflow uses.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the specode plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit It documents the spec, continue, execute, list, and distill commands, their required files, and how hosts without matching tools should adapt.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/qxbyte/pluginhub/using-specode
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.

Any agent
npx skills add qxbyte/pluginhub --skill using-specode
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qxbyte/pluginhub

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install specode, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 596 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.
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 $0.00067 $0.00596
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00238
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00060

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 11cf92c30fd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-specode 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.

plugins/specode/skills/using-specode/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

using-specode — specode 可用性说明(会话启动注入)

本技能是 specode 的会话启动 advisory。它不执行任何流程,只告诉宿主 agent「specode 存在、何时用、怎么进」。在 Kimi Code 由清单的 sessionStart.skill 于会话开始时注入;在有 SessionStart hook 的宿主(Claude Code / CodeBuddy)由 hook 注入等价文案,无需本技能。

specode(spec-mode 轻量工作流)可用。仅在用户输入下列命令、或显式要求用 spec 模式时激活;否则按普通对话处理,不要主动进入 spec 流程:

  • /specode:spec <需求> — 新建规格,走 requirements → design → tasks → 执行方式 → 执行 → 验收。
  • /specode:continue <slug> — 续接已有规格(读固定文档、报进度后停下等指令)。
  • /specode:execute <slug> — 随时手动承接执行尾段(执行方式 selector → 执行 → 验收)。
  • /specode:list — 列出所有规格及其推断相位。
  • /specode:distill <slug> — 流水线外,把完成的规格沉淀成定位型知识点。

激活后的要点:① requirements 由 specode:intake 技能产(项目分析 + 澄清 + 写需求);design / tasks 各相位优先调对应 superpowers 技能,缺席则 specode-native 降级;② 4 份固定产物 requirements.md / design.md / tasks.md / implementation-log.md 永远以固定文件名落在 <specsRoot>/<slug>/;③ tasks 完成后由 specode:execute 技能承接执行尾段。

Host-tool convention 🔧:本插件各技能中出现的工具名(AskUserQuestion / Skill / Agent / Task)在有该工具的宿主上直接照用最可靠;缺该工具的宿主用最近等价物,都没有则降级为纯文本提问 / 直接读目标 SKILL.md / 顺序单代理执行。行为语义才是要点,不是具体工具名。

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 · 21 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 11cf92c30fd5

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using-specode is a skill published in the GitHub repository qxbyte/pluginhub (3 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 596 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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