review-spec

review-spec is a skill for Claude Code from tranhieutt/software_development_department. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,246 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specification-review skill checks whether a product, technical, API, UI, or implementation specification is complete, testable, and ready for planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a read-only quality check before planning or building from a specification.
Why use it?
It catches unclear requirements and missing details before they become implementation work based on guesswork.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it as a read-only quality check before planning or building from a specification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tranhieutt/software_development_department/review-spec
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 tranhieutt/software_development_department --skill review-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tranhieutt/software_development_department

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,246 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.
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 $0.00032 $0.01246
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00623
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00125

Measured 6d ago against content hash e964732e7949, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/review-spec/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Spec

Purpose

review-spec validates whether a specification is strong enough to become the source of truth for planning, TDD, implementation, and verification. It is a read-only quality gate. It does not write code and it does not approve execution by itself.

Use this workflow to prevent weak specs from becoming precise-looking plans with hidden ambiguity.

Core Rule

No implementation plan from an unreviewed or materially ambiguous spec.

If the spec cannot be tested, reviewed against code, or handed to another agent without guessing, return CHANGES REQUIRED.

Workflow

1. Identify the Source of Truth

  • Locate the spec file, issue, PRD section, conversation summary, or design doc.
  • Read only the surrounding context needed to understand the feature boundary.
  • If no spec exists, stop and route to spec-driven-development.
  • If the current code appears to contradict the spec, stop and route to spec-evolution instead of silently reviewing only one side.

2. Classify the Spec

Classify the spec as one or more:

  • Product behavior
  • Technical architecture
  • API/data contract
  • UI/UX flow
  • Test/verification contract
  • Release or migration plan

Use the classification to decide which checks matter most. For example, an API spec must define request/response contracts and error behavior; a UI spec must define states, accessibility requirements, and responsive behavior.

3. Review Against the Readiness Checklist

Evaluate the spec using these criteria:

Area Required standard
Objective One clear outcome, user/system value, and non-goals
Scope Explicit in-scope and out-of-scope boundaries
Behavior Observable acceptance criteria, including failure states
Contracts API, data, events, files, or UI state contracts are concrete
Architecture Fits existing patterns or names required ADR/escalation
Dependencies Upstream/downstream dependencies and ordering are known
Verification Commands, tests, build, lint, manual, or visual checks are named
Rollback Risk and rollback/disable path are stated for risky changes
Handoff Another agent can plan from it without inventing requirements

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 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. 6d ago First seen · 151 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A e964732e7949

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review-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository tranhieutt/software_development_department (72 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,246 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 2026-09-03.