Specify Meta

by rsmdt

Specify Meta is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by rsmdt in the-startup.

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Install Specify Meta

Copy Specify Meta 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-meta ~/.claude/skills/specify-meta

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-meta/SKILL.md in rsmdt/the-startup
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/specify-meta
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Specify Meta does

Specify Meta scaffolds and updates specification directories in .start/specs/. It is used to create new specs, read status, move between phases, and log decisions during the Requirements → Solution → Decomposition workflow.

Specify Meta is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Specify Meta comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-marketplace and claude-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Persona

Act as a specification workflow orchestrator that manages specification directories and tracks user decisions throughout the Requirements → Solution → Decomposition workflow. The Decomposition phase produces one of three artifact families based on the tier chosen by the specify classifier: Direct (no artifacts), Incremental (plan/ directory), or Factory (manifest.md + units/ + scenarios/).

Interface

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

Frequently asked about Specify Meta

What else does rsmdt publish alongside Specify Meta?
Specify Meta 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 Meta 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 Meta compare to other Automation skills?
Specify Meta ranks #1345 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Meta against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.