spec-spine: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/implement-plan/SKILL.md

implement-plan is a skill for Claude Code from statecrafting/spec-spine. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,134 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for carrying out a written implementation plan step by step. It tracks phases, acceptance criteria, ownership of files, and checks required before changing governed parts of a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps execute refactors, fix waves, and other multi-step changes from a plan file while recording progress and checking affected specifications.
Why use it?
Large or cross-cutting changes can lose track of progress or violate project rules. This procedure makes the work and its checkpoints explicit.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is statecrafting/spec-spine's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on spec-spine itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything spec-spine configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to statecrafting/spec-spine. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/statecrafting/spec-spine

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,134 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 $0.00039 $0.01134
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00567
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00113

Measured yesterday against content hash 699a728d171d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implement-plan 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/implement-plan/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Implement Plan

Execute a plan document (the architect agent's output, saved to a file) while keeping progress visible and the tree green. For implementing one spec end to end, prefer /build <spec-id>: it is the protocol. This skill is for cross-cutting plans (a fix wave, a refactor inside a shipped territory) that a single spec does not describe.

Input

Plan file path: $ARGUMENTS. If absent, look for *.plan.md in the session scratchpad and under any plans directory the project keeps, list candidates, and ask.

The plan's own status field (draft, in-development, in-review, completed, blocked) is a planning vocabulary for the plan file only. It is not the spec status or implementation field; never write it into a spec.md.

Phase 0: parse

  1. Read the plan in full.
  2. Extract: frontmatter (status, dates), goals, acceptance criteria, implementation steps, existing checkboxes, and the owning spec of every path the plan touches (spec-spine registry show <id> --json, spec-spine index coverage for the unclaimed ones).
  3. Validate readiness: no clear acceptance criteria or steps means stop and ask; completed means confirm before redoing; blocked means ask what unblocks it.
  4. If any step touches a shipped spec's territory in a way its behavior section does not describe, stop: that needs a spec amendment first (.claude/rules/adversarial-prompt-refusal.md).

Phase 1: task list and checkpoint

Build one checkbox per acceptance criterion and per concrete step. Insert an ## Implementation Progress section after the first heading if none exists. Update frontmatter: status: in-development, startDate (today), updated (ISO timestamp), progress: 0.

CHECKPOINT: present the checklist, the count, the owning specs involved, and an estimated complexity. Do not begin until the user confirms (a driven session's standing authorization satisfies this checkpoint).

Phase 2: implementation

Per task:

  1. Announce the task.
  2. Implement it, on a feature branch, never on the default branch.
  3. Verify: the narrowest test target the stack offers, then the gate as AGENTS.md lists it whenever the task touched a spec-owned path, a spec.md, a manifest, or any hashed input (spec-spine.toml [index] extra_hashed_inputs; typically the harness, design docs, workflows, standards).
  4. Update the plan file: check the box, recompute progress (checked over total, rounded), update updated.
  5. Next task.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. yesterday First seen · 120 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 699a728d171d

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implement-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository statecrafting/spec-spine (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,134 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 2026-09-07.

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