manage-specs

manage-specs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Tx1207/hello-scholar. It costs 31 tokens per session (639 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-planning skill that decides whether a request belongs to an existing specification, needs a new one, or should replace an older one. A specification is a written description of what a product or change must do.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before creating, revising, or replacing a specification, and when another design task needs one clear specification to own the request.
Why use it?
It prevents similar requests from being assigned to conflicting documents or creating unnecessary duplicates. It checks project documentation before making the classification.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it before creating, revising, or replacing a specification, and when another design task needs one clear specification to own the request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tx1207/hello-scholar/manage-specs
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 Tx1207/hello-scholar --skill manage-specs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Tx1207/hello-scholar

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 639 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 $0.00031 $0.00639
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00319
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00064

Measured today against content hash e3bc89ebdcbf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manage-specs 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.

skills/manage-specs/SKILL.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Manage Specs

Maintain a complete, reviewable Spec when the task calls for durable design. A request only to discuss options stays a discussion. Capture settled decisions and material open questions; an unsettled design can be saved as a draft.

Choose the owner

Inspect current Architecture, relevant code and tests, hello-scholar docs check, Indexes when available, and plausible Specs. Select the simplest supported branch:

  • Revise when one Spec already owns the same capability and lifecycle.
  • Create when the capability has an independent value, acceptance boundary, and lifecycle.
  • Replace when the target design will supersede an adopted contract or implementation model.

Resolve the branch from project facts when one owner is clearly better. Ask one focused question only when multiple owners or material product choices remain equally plausible. For a new identity, read assets/spec-identity.md.

Preserve the design

Preserve the user decisions, relevant project facts, interfaces, invariants, implementation boundary, and observable acceptance. Record important alternatives and their rationale when they explain the chosen design. Distinguish open questions from accepted decisions rather than silently deciding them while writing.

Use schema: 1 and the canonical path:

hello-scholar/specs/<topic>/SPEC-NNN-<name>/spec.md

Start an unsettled design as draft. A user acceptance or an explicit request to implement that revision makes it accepted once material open decisions are resolved. Implementation progress does not add another status: keep accepted and record current evidence beside each stable AC-NN. Set completed only when all acceptance requirements for the current revision have current evidence.

For a semantic change, increment revision, update affected decisions and acceptance together, and preserve unaffected content. Evidence-only, formatting, date, or lifecycle updates do not increment the revision. Read the existing Spec in full before revising it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. today Changed · -47 lines · -7 tokens per session e3bc89ebdcbf
  2. 9d ago First seen · 88 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 27a732822c4c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

manage-specs is a skill published in the GitHub repository Tx1207/hello-scholar (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 639 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 2026-08-31.

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