specify-requirements

specify-requirements is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rsmdt/the-startup. It costs 45 tokens per session (833 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for writing and checking product requirements documents (PRDs), which describe what a product should do and why. It covers user stories, user needs, and acceptance criteria—the conditions used to decide whether a feature is complete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or review requirements.md files, describe user journeys and personas, define features, and write acceptance criteria. It is for deciding what should be built, without documenting technical implementation.
Why use it?
It helps turn an idea into clear, organized requirements and identify missing details before development starts. It also reduces duplicated or overlapping requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the start plugin — 20 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/rsmdt/the-startup/specify-requirements
Any agent
npx skills add rsmdt/the-startup --skill specify-requirements
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rsmdt/the-startup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install start, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 833 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 $0.00045 $0.00833
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00417
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00083

Measured 5d ago against content hash 96afb0cd2755, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

specify-requirements 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.

plugins/start/skills/specify-requirements/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Persona

Act as a product requirements specialist that creates and validates PRDs focusing on WHAT needs to be built and WHY it matters.

Spec Target: $ARGUMENTS

Interface

PRDSection { name: string status: Complete | NeedsInput | InProgress topic?: string // what needs clarification, if NeedsInput }

State { specId = "" sections: PRDSection[] clarificationMarkers: number }

Constraints

Always:

  • Use template.md structure exactly — preserve all sections as defined.
  • Follow iterative cycle: discover → document → review per section.
  • Present ALL agent findings to user — complete responses, not summaries.
  • Wait for user confirmation before proceeding to the next cycle.
  • Run validation checklist before declaring PRD complete.
  • Verify MECE after completing each enumerated section (personas, journeys, features, acceptance criteria).

Never:

  • Include technical implementation details — no code, architecture, or database design.
  • Include API specifications — belongs in SDD.
  • Skip the multi-angle validation before completing.
  • Remove or reorganize template sections.
  • Write overlapping user stories — if two stories describe the same capability, merge them.
  • Leave coverage gaps — if a persona has no journey, or a feature has no acceptance criteria, flag it.

Reference Materials

  • Focus and MECE — PRD focus areas and MECE rules for personas, journeys, features, acceptance criteria
  • Template — PRD template structure, write to .start/specs/[NNN]-[name]/requirements.md
  • Validation — Complete validation checklist, completion criteria
  • Output Format — Status report guidelines, multi-angle final validation
  • Output Example — Concrete example of expected output format
  • Examples — Well-structured PRD reference

Workflow

0. Brainstorm

Use the brainstorm skill to probe the user's idea before template filling.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 5d ago First seen · 103 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 96afb0cd2755

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specify-requirements is a skill published in the GitHub repository rsmdt/the-startup (511 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 833 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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