implement-spec

implement-spec is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from willdady/platypus. It costs 18 tokens per session (591 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of implement-spec, MIT.

A workflow that implements a written specification and its issue-tracker tickets in code. It treats tickets as a task graph, meaning tasks can depend on one another, and can use helper agents for exploration or implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for implementing a specification across an integration branch, exploring unfamiliar code, running parallel implementation work, and resolving linked tickets.
Why use it?
It gives a large change an ordered path from specification to completed tickets. Context pointers keep agents referring to shared notes and source files instead of copying large amounts of information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It is for implementing a specification across an integration branch, exploring unfamiliar code, running parallel implementation work, and resolving linked tickets.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/willdady/platypus/implement-spec
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add willdady/platypus --skill implement-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/willdady/platypus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 591 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00018 $0.00591
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00236
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00059

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7a22dd2e60b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

implement-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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to implement-spec — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/implement-spec/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

You have been provided a spec. This spec should have tickets associated with it, describing how to implement the spec.

The issue tracker should have been provided to you. If not, tell the user to run /setup-matt-pocock-skills.

The goal is the entire spec implemented on a single integration branch, with every ticket resolved the way the issue tracker closes work.

The tickets are not a list of steps. They are a task graph with blocking relationships between them. This means there is always a frontier of tickets which are ready to be grabbed.

Communication to and from subagents should be sparse. Communicate primarily through context pointers: to the spec, tickets, research notes, and previous commits. Don't duplicate information already available via pointers.

Implementer subagents should be run in the background where possible for maximum concurrency.

Steps

  1. Read the spec and tickets to understand the task graph.

  2. (optional) Use an exploration subagent to conduct any exploration required by the tickets - relevant codebase files or external documentation. Ensure the exploration subagent can save files - it should save its markdown notes in a directory outside the repo, accessible by all future subagents. This lets implementer subagents focus on implementation rather than exploration.

  3. Create the integration branch. If the issue tracker closes work through PRs, or the user asks for one, open a draft PR after the first merge in step 5 (a branch with no commits ahead of main can't open one), marked as closing the spec and tickets.

  4. Use implementer subagents to implement each ticket, each in its own worktree on its own branch. Each implementer subagent:

    • confirms its worktree is based on the integration branch before starting, and resets onto it if not;
    • calls the Skill tool with tdd to build the ticket;
    • merges the integration branch tip into its own branch before reporting done
  5. Once an implementer subagent completes, merge its work to the integration branch with a merger subagent.

  6. If this changes the frontier of available tickets, kick off more implementer subagents to work on the new tickets. This allows for maximum concurrency.

  7. Once all tickets are complete, call the Skill tool with code-review on the integration branch. Fix all issues raised by the code review in a single implementer subagent.

  8. If a draft PR exists, mark it ready for review. Otherwise, resolve each ticket the way the issue tracker closes work, and report the integration branch.

  9. Clean up all implementer subagent worktrees.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 41 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 7a22dd2e60b8

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implement-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository willdady/platypus (120 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 591 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to implement-spec, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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