codexspec:specify

A skill for turning a discussion into a confirmed requirements document. Requirements describe what a project or feature must do.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify a new feature or update existing requirements in requirements.md.
Why use it?
It records the agreed requirements in one traceable place without generating the design document at the same time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zts0hg/codexspec/codexspec-specify
Any agent
npx skills add Zts0hg/codexspec --skill codexspec-specify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zts0hg/codexspec

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,311 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00018 $0.01311
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00656
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00131

Measured 2d ago against content hash 72524db11fd2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codexspec: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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/codexspec-specify/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Requirement Discovery

Language Preference

Read .codexspec/config.yml. Two independent language controls apply (each falls back to language.output, then English):

  • Interaction language (language.interaction): language for all conversation with the user — questions, explanations, status messages, and codexspec CLI terminal output.
  • Document language (language.document): language for generated artifact files (requirements/spec/plan/tasks).

Converse in the interaction language and author artifacts in the document language. Apply the project's translation standard to both: translate by meaning (not word-for-word), keep English for terms with no good native equivalent, and write as if originally in that language.

User Input

the text after the $codexspec:specify skill mention

Goal

Turn the user discussion into a persistent, traceable requirements.md. The discussion is the richest source of intent, but only the user's confirmed stage summary becomes binding downstream authority.

Do not generate spec.md in this command.

Feature Workspace

New Feature

When the text after the $codexspec:specify skill mention is a new requirement:

  1. Derive a short kebab-case feature name.
  2. Run the platform create-new-feature script:
    • Bash: .codexspec/scripts/create-new-feature.sh --name "<feature-name>"
    • PowerShell: .codexspec/scripts/create-new-feature.ps1 -ShortName "<feature-name>" "<description>"
  3. Parse the created feature directory and requirements.md path.
  4. If branch creation is unavailable, continue in the workspace and report the limitation.

Existing Feature

When the argument identifies an existing feature:

  1. Use the explicit directory first.
  2. Otherwise match the current branch.
  3. If multiple features are possible, ask the user to select one. Never silently select the latest.
  4. Load the existing requirements.md.
  5. Legacy feature: if only spec.md exists, extract candidate entries from it, mark them open, and require user confirmation before they become authoritative.

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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. 2d ago First seen · 127 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 72524db11fd2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codexspec:specify is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zts0hg/codexspec (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,311 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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