intent-to-spec

intent-to-spec is a skill for Claude Code from Vimalk0703/shipworthy. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,502 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lightweight written outline created before substantial coding begins. It records the requested result, what will be built, acceptance criteria, and constraints.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps plan features such as invoice apps, dashboards, payments, and user authentication, while avoiding unnecessary specification work for small fixes.
Why use it?
Starting code without clarifying the intended result can cause the implementation to drift away from what the user asked for.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the shipworthy plugin — 66 skills, 7 commands, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps plan features such as invoice apps, dashboards, payments, and user authentication, while avoiding unnecessary specification work for small fixes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vimalk0703/shipworthy/intent-to-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 Vimalk0703/shipworthy --skill intent-to-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Vimalk0703/shipworthy

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shipworthy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 66 skills, 7 commands, 3 hooks.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,502 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 $0.00055 $0.01502
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00751
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00300
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00150

Measured 8d ago against content hash e1e88e50ddd1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

intent-to-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 8d 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/core/intent-to-spec/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Intent-to-Spec

Purpose

Bridge the gap between "user says what they want" and "code starts flowing." Without a spec, AI-generated code drifts from intent. With a heavyweight spec process, non-technical users bounce. This skill generates a lightweight specification in a single pass — fast enough to be invisible, structured enough to anchor the work.

When This Skill Fires

  • YES: "Build me an invoice app", "Add Stripe payments", "Create a dashboard", "Implement user auth"
  • NO: "Fix the typo", "Change the button color", "Add a health endpoint", "Rename this variable"
  • NO: A spec already exists in .shipworthy/specs/ for this feature

Tier Behavior

Builder Tier (Non-Technical Users)

  • Generate the spec silently — do not show it to the user
  • Save it to .shipworthy/specs/ without discussion
  • Use the spec internally to guide your work
  • The user should never know a spec was written — they just see better results
  • If something is genuinely ambiguous (e.g., "build me an app" with zero context), ask ONE clarifying question, not five

Maker Tier

  • Generate the spec and show a brief summary (3-4 bullets) before proceeding
  • "Here's what I'll build: [bullets]. Sound right?"
  • Save to .shipworthy/specs/ after implicit or explicit approval
  • Do not wait for formal sign-off — if the user doesn't object, proceed

Engineer Tier

  • Generate the full spec and present it for review
  • Wait for explicit approval before proceeding to brainstorming/planning
  • Save to .shipworthy/specs/ after approval

Spec Generation Process

This is a single-pass process. Do NOT turn it into a multi-step interrogation.

Step 1: Capture Intent

Read the user's request and extract:

  • What they want (in their own words — preserve their language)
  • Who it's for (end users, internal team, themselves)
  • Why it matters (what problem does this solve)

If the request is too vague to build anything (e.g., "make an app"), ask ONE clarifying question:

"What's the main thing this app should do? I'll figure out the rest."

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. 8d ago First seen · 143 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A e1e88e50ddd1

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intent-to-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository Vimalk0703/shipworthy (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,502 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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