specification-capture SKILL.md skillA
specification-capture from synaptiai/synapti-marketplace is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add synaptiai/synapti-marketplace/specification-capture@git:20261105.b25d618Pins git:20261105.b25d618 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- synaptiai/synapti-marketplace
- Path
plugins/flow/skills/specification-capture/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 10
- Latest version
- git:20261105.b25d618, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 6, 2026
- Size
- 5,410 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- Apache-2.0
Capture the four specification elements (non-goals, failure modes, interface contracts, risk map) for an issue and persist them to the decision journal under a ## Specification heading. Use when starting work on an issue (Phase 1 of /flow:start), entering a design discussion (/flow:design), or starting a brainstorm (/flow:brainstorm). This skill MUST be consulted because acceptance criteria alone do not say what the implementation is NOT, how it fails, what schemas it honors, or where its…
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What the file says
# Specification Capture
## Contract
Iron law: **every issue gets the four elements (non-goals, failure modes, interface contracts, risk map) in the journal before PLAN.** Invoked with issue context, journal path, and invocation reason (Per-invoker scope below). Returns the `## Captured Specification` payload from [`references/specification-journal-format.md`](../../references/specification-journal-format.md) after writing and re-reading the journal file named in Inputs. Permitted skips: elements outside the invoker's scope row; the risk map when `specFirst.riskMap` is `false` (written as `disabled — specFirst.riskMap=false`); elements the journal already holds for an unchanged issue.
## Inputs
Issue context, journal path (`<journal dir>/issue-{N}.md`, the journal dir being what `bin/journal-dir.sh` prints; never a hand-built `.decisions/`), invocation reason (`start` | `design` | `brainstorm`). Any missing: halt with `SPEC_CAPTURE_BLOCK: missing input <name>`. Toggle: `bin/cascade-resolve.sh --default true '.specFirst.riskMap'`, run from the flow plugin root (`references/plugin-root-resolution.md`).
## Process
### Step 1: Read the journal first
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add synaptiai/synapti-marketplace/specification-capture@sha256:9dc4676b91f3fdcbThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.b25d618, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between May 6, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 20 days.
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| git:20261105.b25d618 latest | 2026-11-05 | b25d618 | 5,410 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261101.fe898b3 | 2026-11-01 | fe898b3 | 5,223 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261031.21b6797 | 2026-10-31 | 21b6797 | 5,189 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.21e8efd | 2026-09-30 | 21e8efd | 5,444 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.2084e1c | 2026-09-20 | 2084e1c | 5,351 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.6778255 | 2026-09-09 | 6778255 | 5,330 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260523.759cdee | 2026-05-23 | 759cdee | 12,136 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260522.34a8d75 | 2026-05-22 | 34a8d75 | 11,753 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260519.d26d419 | 2026-05-19 | d26d419 | 11,767 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260506.b1f0fef | 2026-05-06 | b1f0fef | 11,769 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5410 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
synaptiai/synapti-marketplace · 7 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sukfneh3ryfbjcsl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=synaptiai/synapti-marketplace/specification-capture GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9dc4676b91f3fdcb94d2a7780635bdc787fc4158fbf051f912b2e39daa666e07
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