implement-spec
Skill11 starsChanged 41 days agoMITView on GitHub
Implement a specification in code.
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. 0 are common, 5 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common
Most of the 76 edited versions we read keep these.
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Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
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Implementer subagents: should be run in the background where possible for maximum concurrency.
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Read the spec and tickets.
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Create a branch, and a draft PR.
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Use implementer subagents to implement each ticket.
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If this changes the frontier of available tickets, kick off more implementer subagents to work on the new tickets.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 76 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
You have been provided a spec. This spec should have tickets associated with it, describing how to implement the spec.
The goal is a PR which implements the entire spec on a single branch.
The tickets are not a list of steps. They are a task graph with blocking relationships between them. This means there is always a frontier of tickets which are ready to be grabbed.
Communication to and from subagents should be sparse. Communicate primarily through context pointers: to the spec, tickets, research notes, and previous commits. Don't duplicate information already available via pointers.
Implementer subagents should be run in the background where possible for maximum concurrency.
Steps
- Read the spec and tickets. Read enough to understand the task graph.
- (optional) Use an exploration subagent to conduct any exploration required by the tickets - relevant codebase files or external documentation. Ensure the exploration subagent can save files - it should save its markdown notes in a directory outside the repo, accessible by all future subagents. This lets implementer subagents focus on implementation rather than exploration.
- Create a branch, and a draft PR. The PR should be marked as 'closing' the spec issue and tickets.
- Use implementer subagents to implement each ticket. Each implementer subagent should work in its own worktree, on its own branch.
- Once an implementer subagent completes, merge its work to the PR branch with a merger subagent.
- If this changes the frontier of available tickets, kick off more implementer subagents to work on the new tickets. This allows for maximum concurrency.
- Once all tickets are complete, run /code-review on the PR branch. Fix all issues raised by the code review in a single implementer subagent.
- Mark the PR as ready for review.
- Clean up all implementer subagent worktrees.
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dzhngSkillimplement-spec-with-codex
Run [implement-spec](../implement-spec/SKILL.md) with Codex doing the implementation passes while you orchestrate, integrate, and review. Use when the user asks to implement a spec with Codex, or to run implement-spec with Codex as the implementer.
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dzhngSkillclose-spec
When a spec under specs/<feature>/ is done shipping (a write-spec build, or any planned task that produced a spec), archive it to specs/done/ and rewrite it from a build-plan into a durable rationale — the why, the principles, the invariants — pointing back to the real code for the how. Use when implementation has landed and the plan no longer matches what shipped, or the user says a feature/spec is finished. Pairs with [write-spec](../write-spec/SKILL.md) (the plan this closes) and [review](../review/SKILL.md) (run before closing).
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