spec-driven-development is agent-read markdown (skill) from nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles: Creates specs before coding. Use when starting a new project, feature, or significant change and no specification exists yet. Use when drafting a PRD or requirements document with objectives and scope, or when requirements are unclear, ambiguous, or only exist as a vague idea. Use when a single requirement spans several independently testable capabilities and needs decomposing into a capability map of modules before specifying..
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# Spec-Driven Development
## Overview
Write a structured specification before writing any code. The spec is the shared source of truth between you and the human engineer — it defines what we're building, why, and how we'll know it's done. Code without a spec is guessing.
## When to Use
- Starting a new project or feature
- Requirements are ambiguous or incomplete
- The change touches multiple files or modules
- You're about to make an architectural decision
- The task would take more than 30 minutes to implement
**When NOT to use:** Single-line fixes, typo corrections, or changes where requirements are unambiguous and self-contained.
## The Gated Workflow
Spec-driven development has four phases, preceded by a scope check (Phase 0) that activates only when one request bundles several independently testable capabilities. Do not advance to the next phase until the current one is validated.
```
SPECIFY ──→ PLAN ──→ TASKS ──→ IMPLEMENT
│ │ │ │
▼ ▼ ▼ ▼
Human Human Human Human
reviews reviews reviews reviews
```
### Phase 0: Scope Check
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