openspec-sync-specs

openspec-sync-specs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from redhat-developer/rhdh-skills. It costs 88 tokens per session (653 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A synchronization helper for OpenSpec, a system that keeps software requirements in structured documents. It applies the changes described in a change's delta specifications to the long-lived main specifications without archiving the change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update main specifications from a selected change, including as part of an archive workflow.
Why use it?
It keeps the main specifications current while preserving the change for later work. It handles added, modified, removed, and renamed requirements.

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-sync-specs
Any agent
npx skills add redhat-developer/rhdh-skills --skill openspec-sync-specs
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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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 653 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 $0.00088 $0.00653
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00327
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00065

Measured 5d ago against content hash 93064d1591e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openspec-sync-specs 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 5d 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-sync-specs/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sync delta specs to main specs

Read delta specs and directly edit main specs to apply their intent — allowing partial updates like adding one scenario without copying an entire requirement.

Steps

  1. Select the change. If not given, run openspec list --json, show changes that have delta specs under specs/, and let the user choose. Never guess.
  2. Find delta specs at openspec/changes/<name>/specs/*/spec.md. Each may contain ## ADDED Requirements, ## MODIFIED Requirements, ## REMOVED Requirements, ## RENAMED Requirements (FROM:/TO: format). If none found, tell the user and stop.
  3. For each capability with a delta spec, read both the delta and the main spec at openspec/specs/<capability>/spec.md (may not exist yet), then apply intelligently:
    • ADDED — add if new; if it already exists, update it to match (treat as an implicit MODIFIED).
    • MODIFIED — find the requirement and apply the changes: add scenarios, modify existing ones, or change the description. Preserve content the delta doesn't mention.
    • REMOVED — remove the entire requirement block.
    • RENAMED — find the FROM requirement, rename to TO.
    • If the capability has no main spec yet, create openspec/specs/<capability>/spec.md with a Purpose section (brief, can be TBD) and the ADDED requirements.
  4. Show a summary: which capabilities were updated and what changed (added/modified/removed/renamed requirements).

Key principle: intelligent merging

The delta represents intent, not a wholesale replacement. To add a scenario, include just that scenario under MODIFIED — don't copy existing ones. Use judgment to merge sensibly; the operation should still be idempotent (running it twice gives the same result).

Guardrails

  • Read both delta and main specs before changing anything.
  • Preserve existing content the delta doesn't mention.
  • Ask for clarification if intent is unclear rather than guessing.
  • Show what's changing as you go.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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. 5d ago First seen · 64 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 93064d1591e4

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openspec-sync-specs is a skill published in the GitHub repository redhat-developer/rhdh-skills (16 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 653 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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