openspec-plus-proposal

A guided process for creating or refining an OpenSpec proposal, a short description of why a change is needed and what it should accomplish.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during OpenSpec proposal work, including new proposals, continued proposals, exploration, review, and refinement.
Why use it?
It helps clarify the intended change before technical design or implementation begins and checks that the proposal stays within scope.

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/sudokar/openspec-plus/openspec-plus-proposal
Any agent
npx skills add sudokar/openspec-plus --skill openspec-plus-proposal
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sudokar/openspec-plus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,515 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 $0.00082 $0.02515
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01257
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00503
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00251

Measured 3d ago against content hash 792016f76c15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openspec-plus-proposal 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 3d 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/openspec-plus-proposal/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenSpec Plus Proposal

Mission

Brainstorming-style interactive discovery for OpenSpec proposals. Produce a lean Why / What Changes / Capabilities / Impact proposal at intent level — never sliding into design, spec, or implementation.

OpenSpec provides the format and template (resolved dynamically in Phase 0). This skill provides the process discipline: five-lens Q&A, decomposition check, scope discipline, subagent review.


Inputs

  • User request — authoritative for intent
  • Existing proposals in openspec/changes/ — for terminology and convention only
  • NEVER read source code — proposal is intent, not implementation grounding

Workflow

Four phases. NEVER skip, merge, or reorder.

Phase -1: Auto-Update Check (once per session)
Phase 0: Schema & Template Resolution
Phase 1: Interactive Discovery (5-lens Q&A)
Phase 2: Write & Artifact Compliance Review

Workflow Visibility (MANDATORY)

Display workflow phases via task tool at start; update as each phase completes.


Core Principles

  • Understand Before Defining — seek the problem before describing the change; never jump to proposed solutions.
  • Goals Before Solutions — solution language ("add Redis", "use Postgres") → redirect to the underlying problem and goal.
  • Scope Boundaries Are Critical — non-goals as deliberate as in-scope items; strong non-goals reduce future scope creep.
  • YAGNI — No Speculative Scope — every scope item traces to a stated user need or stakeholder concern.
  • Respect Project Standards — read project instruction files (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, equivalents) at Phase 1 start; use project terminology; conflicts → surface to user, never silently override.

Phase -1: Auto-Update Check (MANDATORY — once per session)

Run FIRST, before Phase 0. Skip if already run this session.

  1. Read openspec/.plus/last-update-check:
    • File exists AND timestamp is within 7 days of today → skip immediately, proceed to Phase 0
    • Missing or older than 7 days → continue:
      • Fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sudokar/openspec-plus/main/VERSION
      • Compare with openspec/.plus/VERSION (local)
      • If remote > local → prompt the user using the question tool:

        🔔 OpenSpec Plus v{remote} is available (you have v{local}).

        • Option 1: Upgrade (Recommended)
        • Option 2: Upgrade later
        • If user selects Upgrade → display the install/update link: https://github.com/sudokar/openspec-plus#-install--update and STOP. Do NOT continue to Phase 0 — the user should run the install/update prompt first and restart the session.
        • If user selects Upgrade later → proceed to Phase 0 normally.
      • Write current timestamp to openspec/.plus/last-update-check
  2. Network/file errors → silently continue. NEVER block the workflow for network issues — proceed to Phase 0.

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 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. 3d ago First seen · 219 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 792016f76c15

Subscribe to this mod's changes

openspec-plus-proposal is a skill published in the GitHub repository sudokar/openspec-plus (154 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 2,515 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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