spec-driven-development
SkillSearchLets your agent write and refine structured specs for software work using clarifying questions and search.
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About this capability
Specification creation and management for the Pilot Shell methodology. Covers semantic search, clarifying questions, structured spec generation, and iterative refinement.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by a5c-ai/babysitter in library/methodologies/pilot-shell/skills/spec-driven-development/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
- Search for files and code related to the task description
- Identify existing patterns that the spec should follow
- Map the impact area of proposed changes
- Generate SEARCH-CONTEXT.md with findings
2. Clarifying Question Resolution
- Identify ambiguities in the task description
- Generate targeted clarifying questions
- Resolve assumptions with explicit choices
- Document decisions for traceability
3. Spec Generation
- Structure specs with: title, goals, tasks, acceptance criteria
- Decompose into atomic, testable tasks
- Define dependency graphs between tasks
- Include rollback plans and risk assessments
- Generate SPEC.md document
4. Iterative Refinement
- Accept plan-reviewer feedback
- Apply revision requests by severity
- Refine task decomposition
- Update acceptance criteria
Spec Structure
# Specification: [Title]
## Goals
- [ ] Goal 1 with measurable outcome
## Tasks
### Task 1: [Description]
- **Acceptance Criteria**: ...
- **Test Strategy**: RED->GREEN->REFACTOR
- **Complexity**: low/medium/high
- **Dependencies**: [task-ids]
## Assumptions
- Assumption 1 (validated: yes/no)
## Risks
- Risk 1: Mitigation strategy
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 2k
- Forks
- 106
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
- Hacker News mentions
- 3
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
spec-driven-development- Source
- github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter