to-spec

to-spec is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from stevesolun/ctx. It costs 34 tokens per session (245 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for turning decisions from the current conversation and repository context into an implementation-ready specification. The specification records the problem, desired behaviour, edge cases, acceptance criteria, constraints, exclusions, and unresolved questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when agreed work needs to be captured as a technical spec or product requirements document.
Why use it?
It preserves agreed decisions in a durable document that developers can implement and review. It also distinguishes facts found in the repository from conclusions inferred during discussion.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 245 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 $0.00034 $0.00245
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00122
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00024

Measured 5d ago against content hash c3d4312d6f40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

to-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 5d 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.

.agents/skills/to-spec/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Create a spec

Capture the decisions already made. Resolve only gaps that would materially change the intended behavior, scope, or feasibility; do not reopen settled questions for the sake of completing a template.

Inspect the relevant implementation, tests, domain language, and architectural decisions when they improve fidelity. Keep facts observed in the repository distinct from decisions inferred from the conversation.

Describe:

  • the user-visible problem and desired outcome;
  • behavior, edge cases, and acceptance criteria;
  • constraints and decisions that implementation must preserve;
  • relevant interfaces or test seams when they are already known; and
  • explicit exclusions and unresolved questions.

Prefer durable behavioral contracts over file paths and implementation recipes. Include code or a type shape only when it records a decision more precisely than prose.

Use the spec format when a structured document helps. Return, save, or publish the spec in the destination the user requested. Treat tracker publication and label changes as separate mutations requiring clear scope.

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. 5d ago First seen · 31 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A c3d4312d6f40

Subscribe to this mod's changes

to-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository stevesolun/ctx (583 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 245 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 2026-08-30.

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