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Best spec-driven development skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Spec-driven development skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walks you through a complete OpenSpec workflow cycle with narration while doing real work in your codebase. | Fission-AI/ | 71k | 1 repo | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 2 | Archives several completed OpenSpec changes in one operation, checking the codebase to resolve spec conflicts rather than archiving blindly. | Fission-AI/ | 71k | 2 repos | ~5.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 3 | Create or update the project constitution from interactive or provided principle inputs, ensuring all dependent templates stay in sync. | WeihanLi/ | 242 | 11 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 23 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/ | 8.4k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 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/ | 154 | 18 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| 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/ | 10k | 1 repo | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 7 | Execute the implementation planning workflow using the plan template to generate design artifacts. | kunstmusik/ | 154 | 18 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| 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/ | 8.3k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 9 | Findings-first code review workflow for AI coding agents. An agent skill from zhu1090093659/spec_driven_develop. | zhu1090093659/ | 983 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 10 | Create or update the feature specification from a natural language feature description. | kunstmusik/ | 154 | 18 repos | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| 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/ | 12k | — | ~717 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 7 days ago |
| 12 | 12.Ready Understand what you mean before anything is built. An agent skill from prekuter/dryforge. | prekuter/ | 402 | 1 repo | ~6.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 5 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/ | 74k | 2 repos | ~829 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 14 | Automates pre-development workflow for large-scale complex tasks. | zhu1090093659/ | 1.9k | — | ~6.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 15 | Generate an actionable, dependency-ordered tasks.md for the feature based on available design artifacts. | kunstmusik/ | 154 | 18 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| 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/ | 57k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 17 | 17.Ss Spec Phase 1 of Serial Studio's spec-driven workflow: capture WHAT a feature must do and WHY, with no implementation detail. | Serial-Studio/ | 7.2k | — | ~766 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | yesterday |
| 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/ | 12k | — | ~652 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 7 days ago |
| 19 | Ingest external plans with conflict detection against project decisions before writing anything. | open-gsd/ | 10k | 2 repos | ~1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 20 | 20.Migration Bring an existing codebase into Dryforge, once. An agent skill from prekuter/dryforge. | prekuter/ | 402 | 1 repo | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 5 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/ | 1.1k | — | ~653 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 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/ | 154 | 17 repos | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| 23 | Spec-driven workflow for non-trivial work. An agent skill from ikarenkov/Modo. | ikarenkov/ | 343 | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 3 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/ | 394 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 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/ | 749 | — | ~5.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 26 | 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/ | 139 | 1 repo | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 3 mo ago |
| 27 | Automates pre-development workflow for large-scale complex tasks. | zhu1090093659/ | 983 | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 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/ | 1.1k | — | ~721 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 29 | 29.Sdd This skill should be used when users want guidance on Spec-Driven Development methodology using GitHub's Spec-Kit. | SpillwaveSolutions/ | 105 | — | ~5.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 10 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/ | 102k | 1 repo | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 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/ | 1.2k | — | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 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/ | 153 | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 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/ | 152 | — | ~5.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 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/ | 181 | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 4 mo ago |
| 35 | 35.Cc Dev Agent A skill your agent uses when starting Claude Code projects, writing CLAUDE.md/spec.md, dispatching subagents, or requesting Agent Teams parallel development. | sangrokjung/ | 849 | — | ~771 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 36 | 36.Go Carry out the intent approved in ready, as meant, and prove it with checks that actually ran. | prekuter/ | 402 | 1 repo | ~7.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 5 days ago |
| 37 | 37.Mdtask 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/ | 246 | — | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 mo ago |
| 38 | 38.Tbd Git-native issue tracking (beads), coding guidelines, knowledge injection, and spec-driven planning for AI agents. | jlevy/ | 131 | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 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/ | 1.1k | — | ~666 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 40 | Generate feature specifications by analyzing existing source code. | dceoy/ | 145 | 1 repo | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 9 days ago |
| 41 | Convert existing tasks into actionable, dependency-ordered GitHub issues for the feature based on available design artifacts. | kunstmusik/ | 154 | 17 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| 42 | Convert Claude Code commands (.claude/commands/.md) to standard Agent Skills (skills//SKILL.md). | dceoy/ | 145 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 9 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/ | 295 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 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/ | 1.7k | — | ~439 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 5 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/ | 1.2k | — | ~5.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 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/ | 6.1k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | yesterday |
| 47 | Creates specs before coding. An agent skill from abashev/vfs-s3. | abashev/ | 106 | 5 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 7 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/ | 511 | — | ~5.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 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.
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