levelup-specify

levelup-specify is a skill for Claude Code from tikalk/adlc-team-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (3,377 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for extracting reusable rules, examples, personas, and evaluation cases from a completed coding-agent session. It records these learnings as Context Directive Records, or CDRs, for later team use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after finishing work to capture implementation lessons, compliance examples, linked evidence, and proposed directive files in the project’s ADLC records.
Why use it?
It turns useful decisions and patterns from one session into documented guidance instead of leaving them only in the conversation history.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it after finishing work to capture implementation lessons, compliance examples, linked evidence, and proposed directive files in the project’s ADLC records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tikalk/adlc-team-skills/levelup-specify
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.

Any agent
npx skills add tikalk/adlc-team-skills --skill levelup-specify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tikalk/adlc-team-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,377 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Data Exfiltration · line 3
    Code or instructions that leak agent conversation context to external services, potentially exposing sensitive user interactions.
    Fix: Remove any code that sends prompts, responses, or session data externally. Preserve user privacy; never exfiltrate conversation content.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00046 $0.03377
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01688
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00675
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00338

Measured 10d ago against content hash 38fc81807203, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

levelup-specify 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/bash/setup-levelup-specify.sh, scripts/powershell/setup-levelup-specify.ps1), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/levelup/levelup-specify/SKILL.md · 402 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 402 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

levelup-specify

What this skill does

Extract Context Directive Records (CDRs) from the current session after completing work.

This is the primary command for capturing learnings from completed work:

  • Review the current session directly (the agent remembers what it did)
  • Identify reusable patterns: rules, personas, examples, skills, and constitution amendments
  • For each directive CDR, also extract a paired eval CDR with pass/fail cases from the session
  • Link CDRs to concrete implementation evidence (files, commits, tests)
  • Write CDRs to {REPO_ROOT}/.adlc/drafts/cdr/CDR-{NNN}.md with status Proposed
  • Auto-generate {REPO_ROOT}/.adlc/drafts/cdr/cdr.md index

Key Difference from /levelup-init:

  • /levelup-init = Discovers patterns from existing codebase (brownfield)
  • /levelup-specify (this skill) = Extracts patterns from the current session (greenfield)

This skill focuses on session-level learnings — what reusable knowledge emerged from the work just completed.

When to use

  • After completing work: Capture reusable patterns from the session
  • Contributing back to team AI directives: Turn session work into reusable directives
  • Before closing a branch: Extract team-wide learnings

When NOT to use

  • Brownfield projects: Use /levelup-init to scan existing code
  • Mining git history / issue-linked changes: Use /change-init to recover past decisions from commits + issue trackers
  • Before work is done: Run this after completing the implementation
  • Routine team AI directives validation: Use /team-repair for health checks

Process

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

You MUST consider the user input before proceeding (if not empty).

Examples of User Input:

  • "Focus on error handling patterns" — Extract CDRs related to error handling
  • "Document the testing approach" — Focus on testing patterns
  • "CDR-001" — Enrich an existing CDR with more session evidence
  • "--focus skills" — Only propose skill-type CDRs
  • Empty input: Extract all patterns from the session trace

Read the full file on GitHub · 402 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 402 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 38fc81807203

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levelup-specify is a skill published in the GitHub repository tikalk/adlc-team-skills (133 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 3,377 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.