openspec-continue-change

openspec-continue-change is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from redhat-developer/rhdh-skills. It costs 86 tokens per session (598 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A step-by-step tool for creating the next file in an OpenSpec change. OpenSpec is a format for organizing proposed software changes into documents such as proposals, specifications, designs, and tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when asking what artifact comes next, or when creating one proposal, specification, design, or task document at a time.
Why use it?
It lets someone review each change document before the next one is created, reducing accidental progress through the plan.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the refinement plugin — 13 skills shipped together

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/redhat-developer/rhdh-skills/openspec-continue-change
Any agent
npx skills add redhat-developer/rhdh-skills --skill openspec-continue-change
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redhat-developer/rhdh-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install refinement, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 598 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 $0.00086 $0.00598
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00299
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00060

Measured 4d ago against content hash 98a3c7fc450c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openspec-continue-change 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 4d 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/refinement/openspec-continue-change/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Continue an OpenSpec change

Create one artifact — the next one whose dependencies are satisfied — and stop, so the user reviews each step before the next is generated.

Steps

  1. Select the change. If not named or inferable from context, run openspec list --json and ask the user to pick from the most recently modified 3-4 changes, marking the most recent as "(Recommended)". Never guess.

  2. Check status:

    openspec status --change "<name>" --json
    

    Read schemaName, artifacts[].status, and isComplete. Specs and design each depend only on proposal — when both are ready, pick one (either order is valid); do not treat YAML list order as a hard dependency.

  3. Act on status:

    • All complete (isComplete: true) — congratulate, show final status, suggest implementing (/openspec-apply-change) or archiving (/openspec-archive-change). Stop.
    • An artifact is ready — pick one ready artifact and create it by following the artifact creation loop in /rhdh-spec-driven-schema. Create exactly one artifact, then stop.
    • Nothing is ready and nothing is complete — this should not happen with a valid schema; show status and suggest checking for a schema issue.
  4. Show progress: openspec status --change "<name>".

Output

After each invocation: which artifact was created, the schema in use, current progress (N/M complete), and what is now unlocked. Close with: "Want to continue? Just ask me to continue or tell me what to do next."

Guardrails

  • Create exactly one artifact per invocation — never more.
  • Never skip required dependencies; when multiple artifacts are ready (specs and design after proposal), either order is fine.
  • If context for the artifact is unclear, ask before creating it.

Completion

Complete when exactly one artifact was written (verified to exist on disk) and the user has seen updated progress and what it unlocked — or, if already complete, when that state was reported without attempting a write.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 4d ago First seen · 63 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 98a3c7fc450c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

openspec-continue-change is a skill published in the GitHub repository redhat-developer/rhdh-skills (16 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 598 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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