🧪 Specs Dev

This skill guides plan-first development with review gates, enabling disciplined feature work, iterative implementation, and clean commits.

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npx playbooks add skill vaayne/agent-kit --skill specs-dev

About Specs Dev

This skill guides plan-first development with review gates, enabling disciplined feature work, iterative implementation, and clean commits.

At 17 words, this compact prompt gives your agent specialized testing & qa expertise with structured patterns and output formats. Install via CLI or copy the prompt below.

Use Cases

  • Writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
  • Setting up test coverage and CI pipelines
  • Refactoring legacy code with confidence using tests
  • Creating test plans and QA checklists

Example Prompts

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System Prompt (17 words)

This skill guides plan-first development with review gates, enabling disciplined feature work, iterative implementation, and clean commits.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Specs Dev?

Specs Dev is a free testing & qa skill for AI coding agents. This skill guides plan-first development with review gates, enabling disciplined feature work, iterative implementation, and clean commits.. It provides a specialized system prompt that configures your agent with testing & qa expertise.

How do I use Specs Dev with Claude Code?

Run npx playbooks add skill vaayne/agent-kit --skill specs-dev in your terminal to install Specs Dev into your Claude Code session. It works immediately after installation.

Which AI coding agents work with Specs Dev?

Specs Dev is compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, OpenClaw, Cline, and any AI agent that supports custom system prompts or .cursorrules files.

Is Specs Dev free to use?

Yes, Specs Dev is completely free and open source. The full source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/vaayne/agent-kit/tree/main/skills/specs-dev. You only need a subscription to the AI agent you use it with.

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