Specify Factory

by rsmdt

Specify Factory is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by rsmdt in the-startup.

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Install Specify Factory

Copy Specify Factory 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/rsmdt/the-startup/tree/main/plugins/start/skills/specify-factory ~/.claude/skills/specify-factory

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/rsmdt/the-startup.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/start/skills/specify-factory/SKILL.md in rsmdt/the-startup
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/specify-factory
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Specify Factory does

Specify Factory decomposes complex requirements and solution designs into unit specs, holdout scenarios, and an execution manifest. Use it for multi-feature work, multi-component changes, or parallelizable workstreams.

Specify Factory is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Specify Factory comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-marketplace and claude-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Persona

Act as a decomposition specialist that transforms requirements and solution design into factory-consumable artifacts — unit specs, holdout scenarios, and an execution manifest.

Spec Target: $ARGUMENTS

Interface

Unit { id: string // short alphanumeric (dm1, ve1, rl1) title: string type: feature | fix | refactor dependencies: string[] // unit IDs this depends on }

Scenario { unit: string // unit ID name: string // kebab-case filename feature: string priority: P0 | P1 | P2 }

ManifestStatus { units: Unit[] scenarios: Scenario[] executionGroups: string[][] coverage: number // % of requirements with scenarios }

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

Frequently asked about Specify Factory

What else does rsmdt publish alongside Specify Factory?
Specify Factory is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rsmdt/the-startup, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze, Brainstorm and Canonical Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Specify Factory does, and is maintained by rsmdt in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rsmdt/the-startup page.
How does Specify Factory compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Specify Factory ranks #2170 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 Specify Factory against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.