spec-kit-setup

spec-kit-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rhtevan/agentfs. It costs 16 tokens per session (845 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for detecting, installing, or upgrading the GitHub Spec Kit command-line tool through uv, a Python tool and package manager.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install or update Spec Kit, verify the result, produce JSON output, force a reinstall, or pin a specific release.
Why use it?
It checks the installed tool and compares its version with the latest or requested release, reducing manual setup and upgrade work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to install or update Spec Kit, verify the result, produce JSON output, force a reinstall, or pin a specific release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rhtevan/agentfs/spec-kit-setup
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 rhtevan/agentfs --skill spec-kit-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rhtevan/agentfs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 845 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 $0.00016 $0.00845
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00338
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00085

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6cf1f11c074b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-kit-setup 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check-and-install.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-kit-setup/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec-kit Setup

Detect, install, or upgrade the specify CLI (GitHub Spec Kit) via uv tool.

What This Skill Does

  1. Locates uv (checks PATH, ~/.hermes/bin, ~/.local/bin, ~/.cargo/bin, nix store).
  2. Checks whether specify is already installed and reads its current version.
  3. Fetches the latest release tag from github.com/github/spec-kit/releases/latest.
  4. Compares the installed version against the latest tag.
  5. Installs (fresh) or upgrades (if behind or --force) using uv tool install specify-cli --force --from git+...@<tag>.
  6. Verifies the new installation by running specify version.

Usage

Run the bundled script from the skill directory:

bash <skill-dir>/scripts/check-and-install.sh

Options

Flag Effect
--json Machine-readable JSON output
--force Reinstall even if already at the latest version
--tag vX.Y.Z Pin to a specific release tag instead of latest

Examples

# Auto-detect and install/upgrade to latest
bash <skill-dir>/scripts/check-and-install.sh

# Force reinstall at current latest
bash <skill-dir>/scripts/check-and-install.sh --force

# Pin to a specific release
bash <skill-dir>/scripts/check-and-install.sh --tag v0.11.8

# JSON output for scripted use
bash <skill-dir>/scripts/check-and-install.sh --json

Prerequisites

  • uv — must be installed and locatable (the script searches common paths)
  • Python 3.11+ — required by the specify CLI
  • Git — required by uv tool install to clone the spec-kit repo
  • Network access — to reach api.github.com and github.com

If uv is not found, install it first: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/

Version Detection

Spec-kit has shipped two different specify version output formats:

Format CLI Version Field Release Version Source
Old (CLI ≤ 0.0.x) CLI Version + Template Version Template Version matches the release tag
New (CLI ≥ 0.11.x) CLI Version only CLI Version matches the release tag

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 1mo ago First seen · 120 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 6cf1f11c074b

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spec-kit-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository rhtevan/agentfs (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 845 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 2026-08-31.

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