Agent skill

Spk Charter Governance

by spec-kitty in spec-kitty/spec-kitty

Run Spec Kitty charter interview, generation, context loading, and synchronization workflows for project governance.

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Install Spk Charter Governance

skills CLI
$ npx skills add spec-kitty/spec-kitty --skill spk-charter-governance -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install spec-kitty/spec-kitty spk-charter-governance --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/spec-kitty/spec-kitty.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/src/charter/offering/skills/spk-charter-governance .claude/skills/spk-charter-governance && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
spk-charter-governance
GitHub stars
1.7k
Token cost
~654 tokens
SKILL.md length
191 words
Files
4 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
45
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Run Spec Kitty charter interview, generation, context loading, and synchronization workflows for project governance.

  • Works in 6 steps: Invoke /spec-kitty.charter or the… → Check the current state → Discover the change in chat, write → …
  • Tasks that involve Context engineering
  • SKILL.md covers Invariant, Flow and References
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Spk Charter Governance is an agent skill from spec-kitty/spec-kitty. Run Spec Kitty charter interview, generation, context loading, and synchronization workflows for project governance. Access charter artifacts programmatically via ActiveCharterService. Resolve agent profiles. Load action-scoped governance context iteratively, not all at once. Triggers: "interview for charter", "generate charter", "sync charter", "use doctrine", "set up governance", "charter status", "extract governance config", "load doctrine", "agent profile", "ActiveCharterService", "action index". Does NOT…

Its SKILL.md is about 650 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `references/charter-artifact-structure.md`, `references/charter-command-map.md` and `references/charter-governance-workflow.md`).

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Context engineering. The repository describes itself as: Spec-Driven Development with organizational governance. Specs tell AI agents what to build; Charter governs how they build it. Git-native missions, enforceable workflows, and… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Context engineering

Example prompts

  • “interview for charter”
  • “generate charter”
  • “sync charter”
  • “/spk-charter-governance”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Invoke /spec-kitty.charter or the relevant charter command.
  2. Check the current state
  3. Discover the change in chat, write
  4. Keep governance decisions explicit and versioned; edit charter.yaml
  5. Load charter context on demand, scoped to the active action
  6. Use the spk-charter-glossary and spk-charter-spdd-reasons skills when

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 3adc165. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are bash).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Spk Charter Governance loads about 654 tokens when it runs, and up to ~14k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 171 tokens; SKILL.md has 191 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~171
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~654
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~14k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from spec-kitty/spec-kitty at commit 3adc165, republished under its MIT licence (© spec-kitty). 191 words, ~654 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/spk-charter-governance/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
spk-charter-governance
description
Run Spec Kitty charter interview, generation, context loading, and synchronization workflows for project governance. Access charter artifacts programmatically via ActiveCharterService. Resolve agent profiles. Load action-scoped governance context iteratively, not all at once. Triggers: "interview for charter", "generate charter", "sync charter", "use doctrine", "set up governance", "charter status", "extract governance config", "load doctrine", "agent profile", "ActiveCharterService", "action index". Does NOT handle: generic spec writing not tied to governance, direct runtime loop advancement, setup/repair diagnostics, or editorial glossary maintenance.

spk-charter-governance

Use this skill for project governance, charter creation, charter sync, or charter context questions.

.kittify/charter/charter.yaml is the runtime governance source for a project; .kittify/charter/charter.md is a human-readable companion the runtime never parses. The charter offering (src/charter/offering/) supplies the reusable directives, tactics, paradigms, styleguides, toolguides, procedures, agent profiles, and step contracts the charter references.

Invariant

spec-kitty never calls an LLM. The harness running this skill is the inference engine: when asked to synthesize charter artifacts, author them yourself, then let the CLI validate and promote them.

Flow

  1. Invoke /spec-kitty.charter or the relevant charter command.

  2. Check the current state:

    bash
    spec-kitty charter status --json
  3. Discover the change in chat, write .kittify/charter/interview/answers.yaml, then generate:

    bash
    spec-kitty charter generate --from-interview --json
  4. Keep governance decisions explicit and versioned; edit charter.yaml directly for policy changes.

  5. Load charter context on demand, scoped to the active action:

    bash
    spec-kitty charter context --action <action> --json
  6. Use the spk-charter-glossary and spk-charter-spdd-reasons skills when the charter selects those practices; load profiles with spk-charter-profile-load.

References

  • references/charter-governance-workflow.md -- Full workflow: agent-driven synthesis, the charter model and data flow, artifact kinds, ActiveCharterService access, profile resolution, and common pitfalls.
  • references/charter-command-map.md -- Full CLI command reference with all flags and output fields.
  • references/charter-artifact-structure.md -- File layout, authority classes, and data flow.

© spec-kitty, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in src/charter/offering/skills/spk-charter-governance of spec-kitty/spec-kitty.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/charter-artifact-structure.md
  • references/charter-command-map.md
  • references/charter-governance-workflow.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 3adc165

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Categories

Questions about Spk Charter Governance

What does Spk Charter Governance do?

Run Spec Kitty charter interview, generation, context loading, and synchronization workflows for project governance. Spk Charter Governance is an agent skill from spec-kitty/spec-kitty. Run Spec Kitty charter interview, generation, context loading, and synchronization workflows for project governance.

When should I use Spk Charter Governance?

Spk Charter Governance fits situations like: tasks that involve Context engineering.

How do I install Spk Charter Governance in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add spec-kitty/spec-kitty --skill spk-charter-governance -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (src/charter/offering/skills/spk-charter-governance in spec-kitty/spec-kitty) into .claude/skills/spk-charter-governance in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Spk Charter Governance in Codex?

Run `npx skills add spec-kitty/spec-kitty --skill spk-charter-governance -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (src/charter/offering/skills/spk-charter-governance in spec-kitty/spec-kitty) into .agents/skills/spk-charter-governance in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Spk Charter Governance in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add spec-kitty/spec-kitty --skill spk-charter-governance -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/spk-charter-governance, .gemini/skills/spk-charter-governance, .github/skills/spk-charter-governance and .opencode/skills/spk-charter-governance in your project.

What does Spk Charter Governance need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Spk Charter Governance is instructions for the agent only.

Does Spk Charter Governance access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Spk Charter Governance safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Spk Charter Governance use?

Spk Charter Governance is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Spk Charter Governance use?

About 654 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 13k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Spk Charter Governance?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Spk Charter Governance: Context Mode Output Sandbox (mksglu/context-mode, 26k stars), Memori Long-Term Memory (MemoriLabs/Memori, 17k stars), Picoclaw Skill Creator (sipeed/picoclaw, 30k stars) and Context Mode for Antigravity CLI (mksglu/context-mode, 26k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Spk Charter Governance?

spec-kitty (a GitHub organization) maintains it in spec-kitty/spec-kitty, which has 1,678 GitHub stars. The repository holds 45 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 11, 2026.

Source: spec-kitty/spec-kitty on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.