spec

A product-shaping tool for turning a vague idea, ticket, or open question into a lightweight product specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for brainstorming, product decisions, vague tickets, and writing a small specification or PRD.
Why use it?
It clarifies expected behavior, scope, and acceptance criteria before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/sandsower/beislid/spec
Any agent
npx skills add sandsower/beislid --skill spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sandsower/beislid

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 148 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,250 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 $0.00148 $0.03250
Opus 5 $0.00074 $0.01625
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00650
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00325

Measured 2d ago against content hash eb25cba8badf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec 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 2d 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/spec/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec

Shape an idea, vague ticket, or open product question into a lightweight product spec. This is the product/requirements gate, not the implementation-design gate.

Use this for:

  • Open-ended brainstorming
  • Vague tickets that are not ready for implementation design
  • Product behavior, scope, and acceptance criteria discovery
  • Writing a lightweight spec/PRD before blueprint

Do not use this for:

  • Implementation design when the requirement is already clear — use blueprint
  • Breaking an approved spec into implementation phases — use break-spec
  • Writing code or scaffolding

If the repo declares custom lifecycle hooks, read ../lifecycle-hooks.md and honor any phase-boundary hooks before and after spec.

You may skip steps if the current conversation or kickoff already supplied enough context.

Step 1: Load context

Collect any supplied context:

  • User idea or prompt
  • Ticket title/body/comments
  • Codebase findings from kickoff, if provided
  • Existing plans/specs in plans/
  • Relevant docs or recent commits, plus the matching spec_approved latest pointer entry when the ticket uses custom artifact locations

If working inside a repo, do light codebase exploration before asking detailed questions. Search for existing patterns, data models, API boundaries, and test coverage that affect the product decision. Record facts, not opinions.

Optional visual routing: only when repo-level beislid:visual_surfaces config exists and the effective spec mode is active, load the per-skill auxiliary visual-surface-protocol.md before the Step 5 approval/revision surface. It mirrors canonical .beislid/visual-surface-protocol.md so copied skill installs stay readable. When active, lean toward proposing a supplemental Lavish surface for any non-trivial spec whose requirements, options, flows, data/state models, scope boundaries, acceptance outcomes, or decisions can be communicated visually; do not reserve visual routing for UI changes. Use its BEISLID_VISUAL_PROMPT_V1 envelope for supplemental Lavish HTML review; keep Markdown/chat spec text canonical, treat freeform visual annotations as advisory, and accept only typed workflow-gate responses that validate/normalize to approve or revise. Unknown, malformed, or freeform-only visual feedback falls back to manual Markdown/chat review.

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 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. 2d ago First seen · 179 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A eb25cba8badf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository sandsower/beislid (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 148 tokens to every session and 3,250 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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