spec-workflow

A structured preparation process for medium or large software changes. It turns unclear requirements into an agreed design and a task plan before implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan new features, multi-step product changes, integrations, architecture work, or refactors with unclear acceptance criteria.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of coding the wrong thing when a change spans several modules, user flows, files, or data structures.

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/tencentcloudbase/cloudbase-skills/spec-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add TencentCloudBase/cloudbase-skills --skill spec-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TencentCloudBase/cloudbase-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,071 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00038 $0.01071
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00535
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00107

Measured today against content hash 82be0da28934, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spec-workflow 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 today.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to spec-workflow — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/cloudbase/references/spec-workflow/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sibling skills (local only)

Sibling CloudBase skills ship beside this skill. Use local relative paths such as ../auth-tool-cloudbase/SKILL.md.

If a referenced sibling skill file is missing from this environment, ask the user to install the full CloudBase plugin (or the missing skill). Do not HTTP-fetch remote skill or protocol markdown into the agent context.

Spec Workflow

Activation Contract

Use this first when

  • The request is a new feature, multi-step product change, cross-module integration, or architecture/design task.
  • Acceptance criteria are unclear and need to be made explicit before implementation.
  • The work involves multiple files, user flows, database design, or UI design that needs staged confirmation.

Read before writing code if

  • You are unsure whether the task should go straight to coding or should first go through requirements, design, and task planning.
  • The request mentions a new page, a new system, a redesign, a workflow, or a multi-module refactor.

Then also read

  • Frontend page or visual design work -> ../ui-design/SKILL.md
  • Advanced data-model work -> ../data-model-creation/SKILL.md

Do NOT use for

  • Small bug fixes with clear scope.
  • One-file documentation updates.
  • Straightforward config changes.
  • Tiny refactors where the user already gave exact implementation instructions.

Common mistakes / gotchas

  • Jumping into coding before acceptance criteria are explicit.
  • Skipping user confirmation between requirements, design, and tasks.
  • Writing vague tasks that do not map back to user-visible outcomes.
  • Treating UI work as purely technical implementation without clarifying design intent.

Minimal checklist

  • Decide whether the change really needs the full spec flow.
  • If yes, stop and produce requirements first.
  • If the change is small, low-risk, and acceptance is already clear, allow direct execution without forcing spec artifacts.
  • Use EARS-style acceptance criteria.
  • Get confirmation before moving to the next phase.

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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. today Changed 82be0da28934
  2. 2d ago First seen · 162 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 458836529981

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spec-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository TencentCloudBase/cloudbase-skills (30 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,071 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to spec-workflow, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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