spec-governance

spec-governance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sarveshtalele/mcp-skills-registry. It costs 45 tokens per session (522 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release-readiness check for engineering documents and other required project files. It compares them with governance rules and produces a repeatable pass/fail report with a score.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check specifications, plans, tests, and similar artifacts before a release gate or compliance review.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork from deciding whether a project has met its documentation requirements before a release. Missing files and required sections are clearly identified.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to check specifications, plans, tests, and similar artifacts before a release gate or compliance review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sarveshtalele/mcp-skills-registry/spec-governance
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 sarveshtalele/mcp-skills-registry --skill spec-governance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sarveshtalele/mcp-skills-registry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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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 522 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 $0.00045 $0.00522
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00261
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00052

Measured 12d ago against content hash 84f48cf58dfd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-governance 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/__init__.py, scripts/main.py, tests/test_skill.py), 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/factory/spec-governance/SKILL.md · 70 lines

What it actually says

spec-governance

Validate engineering artifacts against governance rules and emit a deterministic pass/fail audit with a compliance score.

When to use

Before a release gate. Triggers: governance check, compliance audit, validate spec, gate, review compliance.

Inputs

  • artifacts_present (array of strings, required) — e.g. spec.md, plan.md, tests.
  • spec_text (string, optional) — scanned for required sections.

Outputs

  • audit_markdown — the report.
  • score (0–100), passed (bool, threshold 70).

How it works

Each required artifact carries a weight (see governance_rules/rules.yaml); present artifacts accumulate score. Optional spec-section checks add detail. The gate passes at ≥ 70.

User stories

  • As a gatekeeper, I get an objective, repeatable pass/fail with reasons.

Edge cases

  • Artifact names are matched loosely (substring) to tolerate path prefixes.
  • Missing spec_text → section checks are skipped, not failed.

Files

See DOCS.md. Rules live in governance_rules/, report layout in audit_templates/.

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. 12d ago First seen · 70 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 84f48cf58dfd

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spec-governance is a skill published in the GitHub repository sarveshtalele/mcp-skills-registry (2 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 522 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 2026-08-31.