Topic · Development

Best spec-driven development skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Skills that write a spec first, then plan, task and implement against it step by step.
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Spec-driven development skills, ranked

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Spec-driven development skills, ranked
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Walks you through a complete OpenSpec workflow cycle with narration while doing real work in your codebase.

Fission-AI/OpenSpec71k1 repo~4.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
2

Archives several completed OpenSpec changes in one operation, checking the codebase to resolve spec conflicts rather than archiving blindly.

Fission-AI/OpenSpec71k2 repos~5.6kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
3

Create or update the project constitution from interactive or provided principle inputs, ensuring all dependent templates stay in sync.

WeihanLi/WeihanLi.Common24211 repos~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.023 days ago
4

Runs a spec-driven workflow from PRD to epic to GitHub issues to parallel agents, with status, standup and blocked-work reports from bundled scripts.

automazeio/ccpm8.4k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT6 mo ago
5

Perform a non-destructive cross-artifact consistency and quality analysis across spec.md, plan.md, and tasks.md after task generation.

kunstmusik/blue15418 repos~3kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0yesterday
6

Files a GSD phase artifact into MemPalace and mirrors its decision facts into the temporal knowledge graph, as a best-effort step that never blocks a phase.

open-gsd/gsd-core10k1 repo~1.6kAutomated safety check: NotesMITtoday
7

Execute the implementation planning workflow using the plan template to generate design artifacts.

kunstmusik/blue15418 repos~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0yesterday
8

Turns a rough idea into an approved design before any code is written, sorting the request into spike, bounded or architectural and enforcing an approval gate.

jnMetaCode/superpowers-zh8.3k—~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 days ago
9

Findings-first code review workflow for AI coding agents. An agent skill from zhu1090093659/spec_driven_develop.

zhu1090093659/spec_driven_develop983—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
10

Create or update the feature specification from a natural language feature description.

kunstmusik/blue15418 repos~4.7kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0yesterday
11

Reviews BiSheng spec, design and tasks documents with checklists for PRD gaps, handover readiness and acceptance traceability, producing a report or an LGTM.

dataelement/bisheng12k—~717Automated safety check: PassApache-2.07 days ago
12

Understand what you mean before anything is built. An agent skill from prekuter/dryforge.

prekuter/dryforge4021 repo~6.8kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.05 days ago
13

Applies the SPARC method (specification, pseudocode, architecture, refinement, completion) with 17 specialized modes and multi-agent orchestration, from research to deployment.

ruvnet/ruflo74k2 repos~829Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
14

Automates pre-development workflow for large-scale complex tasks.

zhu1090093659/deepseek-pp1.9k—~6.9kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.01 mo ago
15

Generate an actionable, dependency-ordered tasks.md for the feature based on available design artifacts.

kunstmusik/blue15418 repos~3kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0yesterday
16

Turns a React Router RFC discussion on GitHub into an implementation, weighing community feedback and settling open questions with you before coding.

remix-run/react-router57k—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
17

Phase 1 of Serial Studio's spec-driven workflow: capture WHAT a feature must do and WHY, with no implementation detail.

Serial-Studio/Serial-Studio7.2k—~766Automated safety check: PassUnknownyesterday
18

Runs a light convention check on one finished spec-driven task, choosing checks by task type and ending in pass, pass-with-notes or needs-fix.

dataelement/bisheng12k—~652Automated safety check: PassApache-2.07 days ago
19

Ingest external plans with conflict detection against project decisions before writing anything.

open-gsd/gsd-core10k2 repos~1kAutomated safety check: NotesMITtoday
20

Bring an existing codebase into Dryforge, once. An agent skill from prekuter/dryforge.

prekuter/dryforge4021 repo~3.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.05 days ago
21

After a bug is found, traces its root cause and feeds a new testable invariant back into the project spec so the bug class can't recur.

JuliusBrussee/cavekit1.1k—~653Automated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
22

Identify underspecified areas in the current feature spec by asking up to 5 highly targeted clarification questions and encoding answers back into the spec.

kunstmusik/blue15417 repos~4.9kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0yesterday
23

Spec-driven workflow for non-trivial work. An agent skill from ikarenkov/Modo.

ikarenkov/Modo343—~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence3 mo ago
24

Runs a three-step pipeline, requirement exploration, seven-model ontology YAML, then app build, on a Flask, SQLite, and React stack with sign-off gates.

sharptoolbox/ontology-driven-dev394—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 days ago
25

Replaces line-by-line code review with an approved executable spec and a gauntlet of tests, types, coverage, and mutation checks the code must survive.

AmazingAng/old-coder749—~5.4kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT1 mo ago
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26.Acai

Mandatory - you must load the acai skill to learn the acai.sh process for spec-driven development whether planning, implementing, or reviewing code.

acai-sh/cli1391 repo~1.5kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.03 mo ago
27

Automates pre-development workflow for large-scale complex tasks.

zhu1090093659/spec_driven_develop983—~5.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
28

Compresses SPEC.md writes and spec-referencing prose into terse, symbol-heavy fragments that drop articles, filler and hedging while keeping facts intact.

JuliusBrussee/cavekit1.1k—~721Automated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
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29.Sdd

This skill should be used when users want guidance on Spec-Driven Development methodology using GitHub's Spec-Kit.

SpillwaveSolutions/sdd-skill105—~5.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT10 mo ago
30

Writes a structured specification before any code, moving through gated specify, plan, tasks and implement phases, with an optional capability map for multi-part requests.

addyosmani/agent-skills102k1 repo~3.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 days ago
31

Reference for MoAI-ADK's core development principles: TRUST 5 quality gates, SPEC-first domain-driven workflow, agent delegation and token budgeting.

modu-ai/moai-adk1.2k—~5kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
32

Applies a 12-stage verified workflow, from research to deploy, to non-trivial coding tasks, scaled to lightweight, standard or full mode by task size.

artemiimillier/bulletproof153—~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT6 mo ago
33

A skill your agent uses to scaffold Spec Driven Development: requirements.md, design.md, tasks.md, and cross-compatible AI config files (CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules, .windsurfrules…

FredAntB/Spec-Driven-Development152—~5.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
34

Reads human-written spec documents and produces per-epic requirement files with proof obligations plus behavior scenarios with stable IDs, using parallel chunked extraction.

prime-radiant-inc/iterative-development181—~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.04 mo ago
35

A skill your agent uses when starting Claude Code projects, writing CLAUDE.md/spec.md, dispatching subagents, or requesting Agent Teams parallel development.

sangrokjung/claude-forge849—~771Automated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
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36.Go

Carry out the intent approved in ready, as meant, and prove it with checks that actually ran.

prekuter/dryforge4021 repo~7.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.05 days ago
37

A skill your agent uses for the task format and the spec-driven development reference — the spec→build→document cycle and spec file structure — and for inspecting or editing existing tasks in .md…

syabro/mdtask246—~4.7kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown2 mo ago
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38.Tbd

Git-native issue tracking (beads), coding guidelines, knowledge injection, and spec-driven planning for AI agents.

jlevy/strif131—~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
39

Read-only detector that compares SPEC.md with the code and reports invariant, interface and task drift grouped by severity, without changing anything.

JuliusBrussee/cavekit1.1k—~666Automated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
40

Generate feature specifications by analyzing existing source code.

dceoy/speckit-agent-skills1451 repo~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.09 days ago
41

Convert existing tasks into actionable, dependency-ordered GitHub issues for the feature based on available design artifacts.

kunstmusik/blue15417 repos~2kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0yesterday
42

Convert Claude Code commands (.claude/commands/.md) to standard Agent Skills (skills//SKILL.md).

dceoy/speckit-agent-skills145—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.09 days ago
43

Autonomous, spec-driven, multi-agent pipeline that takes an EDT-MCP task or issue end-to-end — research → critics → architect → parallel development → review loop → tests → live-stand check →…

DitriXNew/EDT-MCP295—~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0today
44

Carries out an approved plan for an agtx-managed task: implements the changes, runs tests, commits, writes a summary to .agtx/execute.md and then stops.

fynnfluegge/agtx1.7k—~439Automated safety check: PassApache-2.05 days ago
45

Manages SPEC documents for MoAI-ADK development, with GEARS or EARS requirement notation, acceptance criteria and a link into the Plan-Run-Sync workflow.

modu-ai/moai-adk1.2k—~5.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
46

Reads a codebase silently, asks only what it cannot infer, and recommends one AI-assisted development methodology stack with a contextual quick start.

FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-ultimate-guide6.1k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassCC-BY-SA-4.0yesterday
47

Creates specs before coding. An agent skill from abashev/vfs-s3.

abashev/vfs-s31065 repos~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.07 days ago
48

Turns a vague feature request into a written spec with scope, phases, acceptance criteria and do-not-do limits that a coding agent can follow without guessing.

tryproduck/produck-skills511—~5.3kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.01 mo ago

Questions, answered from the data.

What is the best spec-driven development skill?

OpenSpec Guided Onboarding from Fission-AI/OpenSpec ranks first of the 209 spec-driven development skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 71k GitHub stars, 1 other GitHub owner carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 4.5k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come OpenSpec Bulk Change Archiver and Speckit Constitution.

Which spec-driven development skills are official?

2 of the 209 spec-driven development skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Wa Guardrails and Writing Workflow Skills.

How are these skills ranked?

By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.