writing-specs

writing-specs is a skill for Claude Code from rohanrichards/pairdown. It costs 53 tokens per session (883 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A writing guide for specifications in a Pairdown room, where a team reads the document without the author present. It explains what belongs in the document and how to keep it easy to scan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or editing team-facing specifications in Pairdown, especially when the document must stand on its own.
Why use it?
It helps separate informal thinking from decisions the team needs to read and follow. This reduces unclear or overly dense specifications.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pairdown plugin — 2 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing or editing team-facing specifications in Pairdown, especially when the document must stand on its own.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rohanrichards/pairdown/writing-specs
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 rohanrichards/pairdown --skill writing-specs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rohanrichards/pairdown

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pairdown, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for writing-specs

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rohanrichards/pairdown/writing-specs.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rohanrichards/pairdown/writing-specs)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rohanrichards/pairdown/writing-specs"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rohanrichards/pairdown/writing-specs.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 883 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 unknown 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 $0.00053 $0.00883
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00441
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00088

Measured 6d ago against content hash 3d2cab8d7f42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-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 6d 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/writing-specs/SKILL.md · 69 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 6d ago First seen · 69 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 3d2cab8d7f42

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writing-specs is a skill published in the GitHub repository rohanrichards/pairdown (0 stars, last pushed 13d ago), with no licence file. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 883 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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