spec-authoring SKILL.md skillA

spec-authoring from muvon/octomind-tap is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add muvon/octomind-tap/spec-authoring@git:20261108.a3ce67a

Pins git:20261108.a3ce67a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: muvon/octomind-tap
Path: skills/spec-authoring/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 6
Latest version: git:20261108.a3ce67a, committed Nov 8, 2026
First version recorded: Sep 18, 2026
Size: 16,876 bytes
Repository stars: 6
License: Apache-2.0

Write behavioral specs an agent can implement without guessing: EARS requirements, verification proofs, layering. Use when writing or reviewing a spec.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

## Overview

A spec is the contract between intent and code. An autonomous implementer follows it exactly — including its gaps: underspecified intent does not get corrected, it gets implemented. The spec's job is to make every requirement checkable, every boundary explicit, and every unresolved question visible rather than guessed.

Write a spec when the work is not describable in one sentence. Skip it when it is.

Open `reference/spec-template.md` when emitting a spec: it holds the exact section order, the per-task-type section rules, and the save layout.

## Mental model

Three ingredients, three jobs. All three are required; none substitutes for another.

| Ingredient | Answers | Lives in |
|---|---|---|
| Requirements | What must be true when done | EARS statements, one per test |
| Constraints | What the implementer may not do | Guardrails: forbidden moves, protected surfaces, budgets |
| Verification | How done is proven | The exact command that must exit 0 |

Requirements without constraints let the implementer widen scope. Constraints without requirements produce a cautious no-op. Either without a verification command is unfalsifiable prose.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add muvon/octomind-tap/spec-authoring@sha256:a54297101eb3e0b9

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261108.a3ce67a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ioyw262ausb6abz6.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ioyw262ausb6abz6)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Sep 18, 2026 and Nov 8, 2026, about one every 10 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261108.a3ce67a latest	2026-11-08	a3ce67a	16,876 B	A	view · diff
git:20261011.6b53706	2026-10-11	6b53706	17,216 B	A	view · diff
git:20261011.c493a8d	2026-10-11	c493a8d	16,318 B	A	view · diff
git:20260918.07f4be1	2026-09-18	07f4be1	13,205 B	A	view · diff
git:20260918.44e86b9	2026-09-18	44e86b9	10,329 B	A	view · diff
git:20260918.581103e	2026-09-18	581103e	13,456 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (16876 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

muvon/octomind-tap · 6 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ioyw262ausb6abz6
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=muvon/octomind-tap/spec-authoring
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a54297101eb3e0b9c5aad3d6375e79fa2568542ac92bd66a95cb3ed22bd62365

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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