speccy

speccy is a skill for Claude Code from slamb2k/mad-skills. It costs 69 tokens per session (3,374 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

An interview-based skill for turning an idea or existing project into a detailed software specification. A specification is a written description of what should be built and the decisions it must follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review existing code and documentation, answer targeted questions, and produce a structured specification for a feature or system.
Why use it?
It surfaces missing requirements, technical choices, interface questions, risks, and tradeoffs before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the mad-skills plugin — 20 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review existing code and documentation, answer targeted questions, and produce a structured specification for a feature or system.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add slamb2k/mad-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install mad-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mad-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 2 hooks.

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 speccy

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/speccy/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/speccy)
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 speccy

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,374 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00069 $0.03374
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01687
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00675
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00337

Measured 10d ago against content hash e9b2ddd6caa8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

speccy scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/spec-completeness-check.sh, scripts/spec-completeness-check.test.js, scripts/spec-eligibility-check.sh, …), 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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

| prime | skill | `ls .claude/skills/prime/SKILL.md ~/.claude/skills/prime/SKILL.md ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/slamb2k/skills/prime/SKILL.md 2>/dev/null` | no | fallback | Context loading; falls back to manual projec
skills/speccy/SKILL.md · 308 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 308 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Speccy - Interview-Driven Specification Builder

When this skill is invoked, IMMEDIATELY output the banner below before doing anything else. Pick ONE tagline at random — vary your choice each time. CRITICAL: Reproduce the banner EXACTLY character-for-character, including the diagonal / glyph before the name.

{tagline}

       /$$ /$$$$$$  /$$$$$$$  /$$$$$$$$  /$$$$$$   /$$$$$$  /$$     /$$
      /$$//$$__  $$| $$__  $$| $$_____/ /$$__  $$ /$$__  $$|  $$   /$$/
     /$$/| $$  \__/| $$  \ $$| $$      | $$  \__/| $$  \__/ \  $$ /$$/ 
    /$$/ |  $$$$$$ | $$$$$$$/| $$$$$   | $$      | $$        \  $$$$/  
   /$$/   \____  $$| $$____/ | $$__/   | $$      | $$         \  $$/   
  /$$/    /$$  \ $$| $$      | $$      | $$    $$| $$    $$    | $$    
 /$$/    |  $$$$$$/| $$      | $$$$$$$$|  $$$$$$/|  $$$$$$/    | $$    
|__/      \______/ |__/      |________/ \______/  \______/     |__/    

Taglines:

  • 🔍 Tell me everything...
  • 🧠 Let's think this through!
  • 📋 Spec it before you wreck it!
  • 🎤 Interview mode: ACTIVATED
  • 💡 Great specs start with great questions!
  • 🏗️ Measure twice, code once!
  • 📝 No assumption left behind!
  • 🎯 Precision engineering starts here!

Output Formatting

After the banner, display parsed input:

┌─ Input ────────────────────────────────────────
│  {Field}:  {value}
│  Flags:    {parsed flags or "none"}
└────────────────────────────────────────────────

Pre-flight results:

── Pre-flight ───────────────────────────────────
  ✅ {dep}           {version or "found"}
  ⚠️ {dep}           not found → {fallback detail}
  ❌ {dep}           missing → stopping
──────────────────────────────────────────────────

Stage/phase headers: ━━ {N} · {Name} ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Status icons: ✅ done · ❌ failed · ⚠️ degraded · ⏳ working · ⏭️ skipped


Interview the user through multiple rounds of targeted questions to build a comprehensive specification, then write it directly using the spec template in references/spec-template.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 308 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. 10d ago First seen · 308 lines · 69 tokens per session scan B e9b2ddd6caa8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

speccy is a skill published in the GitHub repository slamb2k/mad-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 3,374 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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