spec-review

spec-review is a skill for Claude Code from saffron-health/libretto. It costs 37 tokens per session (983 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review checklist for software specifications, which describe what a change should do. It checks the specification against the existing code and identifies missing details, bugs, and unmet requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a specification, inspect the files it names, check related library or API documentation, and report findings with references to the specification and source code.
Why use it?
It helps catch unclear decisions and incorrect assumptions before development begins. This reduces the risk of building the wrong change or overlooking migrations and error cases.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Part of the libretto plugin — 24 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a specification, inspect the files it names, check related library or API documentation, and report findings with references to the specification and source code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/saffron-health/libretto/spec-review
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 saffron-health/libretto --skill spec-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saffron-health/libretto

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install libretto, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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 spec-review

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/saffron-health/libretto/spec-review/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/saffron-health/libretto/spec-review)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for spec-review

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/saffron-health/libretto/spec-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/saffron-health/libretto/spec-review.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 983 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00037 $0.00983
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00393
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00098

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 95c3be5d1a00, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-review 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 2mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/spec-review/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review the spec the user points you to. Follow these steps in order.

Step 1: Read the spec

Read the spec file the user references.

Step 2: Research the codebase

Use sub-agents to read every file listed in the spec's "Important files" section. For each file, understand its current state well enough to evaluate whether the spec's proposed changes are correct and complete.

If the spec references external libraries or APIs, look up their documentation.

Step 3: Evaluate

Assess the spec against three categories. For each finding, cite the specific spec line or section and the relevant source file and line number.

Under-specified areas

Find places where the spec leaves ambiguous decisions that should have explicit design intent from the user. Examples:

  • A phase says "update the handler" but two handlers exist and the spec does not say which one
  • A schema change is described but the migration path for existing data on disk is not addressed
  • A new dependency is introduced between two modules but the spec does not state which module owns the interface
  • Error handling or edge cases are not mentioned for a path that can clearly fail
  • The spec describes behavior but does not specify what happens when the precondition is not met

Do not flag things that are obviously implied by context. Flag things where a reasonable implementer would have to guess.

Bugs

Find design-level logical errors — things that would send an implementer down the wrong path or produce incorrect behavior that tooling won't catch. Examples:

  • A phase deletes a module but a later phase depends on the concept it provided (not just the import — the typecheck catches that)
  • The spec contradicts its own goals or non-goals (e.g., says "calendar support later" but removes the only calendar mechanism without acknowledging it)
  • A fan-out loop creates sessions but nothing deduplicates if the same event matches the same trigger twice
  • The spec assumes a data shape or behavior that doesn't match reality in the codebase

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

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. 2mo ago First seen · 97 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 95c3be5d1a00

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository saffron-health/libretto (906 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 983 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 2026-08-30.

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