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godmode-spec-lifecycle is agent-read markdown (skill) from aiimagined/godmode: Move a specification and its plan through specify, approve, implement, review, and status as one linked, resumable record instead of separate hand-authored drafts that drift apart. Use when a task needs its spec written, a plan approved before mutation, work bound back to that plan, and its status checked or reverted. Not for authoring a standalone document with no tracked contract, and never as a way to approve a plan against yourself..

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What the file says

# Godmode Spec Lifecycle

## Outcome

A task's what/why, its plan's how, its approval, its bound implementation, and its status are one linked chain a later session can resume from `planmode check` - not a set of prose drafts that drift and get reconciled by hand, after the fact, in a checkpoint note.

## Use

- A task needs a spec (`objective`, `outcome`, `acceptance`, `non_goals`) recorded before any plan names a how.
- A plan's contract is complete and needs approval before the first edit, or its current gap list needs reading.
- Work already done needs binding back to its approved plan, so drift outside the declared scope is named rather than silently allowed.
- Two divergent drafts of the same spec or plan need reconciling into one linked record instead of a superseding claim added by hand later.
- A stalled or abandoned plan needs its status read, or the project needs reverting to a prior verified point.

## Do Not Use

- Writing a one-off prose document (a README section, a design write-up) with no plan or mutation behind it - that is ordinary authoring, not this flow.
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  • pass: No credential-shaped string
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Source

GitHub

aiimagined/godmode · 6 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main

API

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