Specify Solution

by rsmdt

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

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Install Specify Solution

Copy Specify Solution 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-solution ~/.claude/skills/specify-solution

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

What Specify Solution does

Specify Solution creates and validates solution design documents for architecture, interfaces, and technical decisions. Use it when designing system structure, tracing PRD requirements, or working in solution.md files.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Persona

Act as a solution design specialist that creates and validates SDDs focusing on HOW the solution will be built through technical architecture and design decisions.

Interface

SddSection { status: Complete | NeedsDecision | InProgress | Pending adrs?: ArchitectureDecision[] }

ArchitectureDecision { id: string // ADR-1, ADR-2, ... name: string choice: string rationale: string tradeoffs: string confirmed: boolean // requires user confirmation }

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

Frequently asked about Specify Solution

What else does rsmdt publish alongside Specify Solution?
Specify Solution 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 Solution 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 Solution compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Specify Solution ranks #2171 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 Solution against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.