propagate

A process for carrying changes in an upstream planning document into the documents and code that depend on it. Upstream documents include PRDs, SRSs, technical designs, and feature specifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after editing a specification, before a release, or when checking whether recent changes have created stale documents.
Why use it?
It helps prevent later documents from silently describing old requirements after an earlier specification changes.

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/tercel/spec-forge/propagate
Any agent
npx skills add tercel/spec-forge --skill propagate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tercel/spec-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,375 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 $0.00072 $0.04375
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02188
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00875
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00438

Measured 2d ago against content hash 344ffd56de87, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

propagate 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 2d 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/propagate/SKILL.md · 397 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 397 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spec Forge — Propagate

⚡ Execution Entry Point (READ THIS FIRST)

Begin executing Step 1 immediately; never fall back to a manual workflow or stop to ask what to do.


Walk a doc change downstream and keep the whole chain consistent.

Iron Law

EVERY UPSTREAM CHANGE PROPAGATES OR FAILS LOUDLY. Partial propagation is worse than no propagation — it creates the illusion of consistency where there is none.

When to Use

  • After editing a PRD / SRS / tech-design / feature-spec — find and update every doc that references the changed concepts
  • After running /spec-forge:prd or another generator that modified an existing doc in place
  • Periodically, with --since {git-ref}, to catch accumulated drift across recent commits
  • Before a release, to make sure no doc is silently stale relative to its upstream
  • When spec-forge:analyze or spec-forge:audit flags inconsistencies between upstream and downstream docs

This skill is the symmetric counterpart to code-forge:fix --review (which propagates code review findings into code changes). Where code-forge:fix walks up from a bug to the spec, spec-forge:propagate walks down from a spec change to the docs and code that depend on it.

Command Format

/spec-forge:propagate [@source-doc.md] [--since git-ref] [--scope all|docs|code] [--dry-run] [--save]
Argument / Flag Default Description
@source-doc.md The upstream doc whose changes should propagate. If omitted, auto-detect from git diff HEAD (uncommitted changes) or git diff HEAD~1 HEAD (last commit).
--since {git-ref} Compute the diff between {git-ref} and HEAD instead of using uncommitted changes. Useful for catching drift across multiple commits.
--scope docs What to propagate into. docs = downstream documentation only. code = also flag code that references changed requirement IDs. all = both.
--dry-run off Generate the impact report and per-downstream proposed changes, but do NOT apply any edits. The user reviews the report and re-runs without --dry-run to apply.
--save off Save the propagation report to docs/propagate-report-{timestamp}.md in addition to displaying it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 397 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. 2d ago First seen · 397 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 344ffd56de87

Subscribe to this mod's changes

propagate is a skill published in the GitHub repository tercel/spec-forge (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 4,375 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 2026-08-31.

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