specification-writing

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Lets your agent write feature specifications with requirements, user stories, and testable acceptance criteria.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the specification-writing skill

About this capability

Write feature specifications as requirements and user stories with acceptance criteria, focusing on business value and testable conditions.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by a5c-ai/babysitter in library/methodologies/spec-kit/skills/specification-writing/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

  • Formalizing vague feature requests into structured requirements
  • Clarifying scope boundaries for a feature area
  • Establishing acceptance criteria for user stories

Key Principle

Specifications describe desired behavior from the user's perspective. They define what the system should do, not how it should be built. Business value must be explicit in every requirement.

Process

  1. Elicit requirements - Extract functional and non-functional requirements from feature description
  2. Write user stories - Author stories in standard format with personas
  3. Define acceptance criteria - Testable conditions for each story (Given/When/Then)
  4. Identify edge cases - Error scenarios and boundary conditions
  5. Clarify gaps - Surface and resolve ambiguities and contradictions
  6. Document assumptions - Make implicit assumptions explicit
  7. Define scope - Clearly delineate in-scope vs. out-of-scope
  8. Human review - Approve specification before planning

Tool Use

Invoke via babysitter process: methodologies/spec-kit/spec-kit-specification Full pipeline: methodologies/spec-kit/spec-kit-orchestrator

Signals

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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
specification-writing
Source
github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter