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Kiro Spec Design

by gotalab

Kiro Spec Design is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by gotalab in cc-sdd.

3.6K stars275 forkson gotalab/cc-sddAdded 2026/08/16Repository updated 2026/05/20
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Install Kiro Spec Design
Copy Kiro Spec Design into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/gotalab/cc-sdd/tree/main/tools/cc-sdd/templates/agents/claude-code-skills/skills/kiro-spec-design ~/.claude/skills/kiro-spec-design

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/gotalab/cc-sdd.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
tools/cc-sdd/templates/agents/claude-code-skills/skills/kiro-spec-design/SKILL.md in gotalab/cc-sdd
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/kiro-spec-design
Collection
One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Kiro Spec Design does

Kiro Spec Design generates comprehensive technical designs that translate requirements into architecture through a discovery process. Use it when creating architecture from requirements or extending an existing system.

Kiro Spec Design is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Kiro Spec Design comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, claude-code, codex, cursor and gemini-cli.

Documentation

README

kiro-spec-design Skill

Core Mission

  • Success Criteria:
    • All requirements mapped to technical components with clear interfaces
    • The design makes responsibility boundaries explicit enough to guide task generation and review
    • Appropriate architecture discovery and research completed
    • Design aligns with steering context and existing patterns
    • Visual diagrams included for complex architectures

Execution Steps

Step 1: Gather Context

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Kiro Spec Design provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

  • /kiro-validate-gap
  • /kiro-spec-design
  • /kiro-spec-requirements
  • /kiro-validate-design
  • /kiro-spec-tasks

Frequently asked about Kiro Spec Design

  • What else does gotalab publish alongside Kiro Spec Design?

    Kiro Spec Design is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from gotalab/cc-sdd, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include CC-SDD New Agent Integration, Implementation Gap Validation and Implementation Integration Validation. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Kiro Spec Design does, and is maintained by gotalab in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the gotalab/cc-sdd page.

  • How does Kiro Spec Design compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Kiro Spec Design ranks #579 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Kiro Spec Design against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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