To Spec

by tt-a1i

To Spec is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by tt-a1i in matt-skills-with-to-goal.

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Install To Spec

Copy To Spec 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/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal/tree/main/skills/engineering/to-spec ~/.claude/skills/to-spec

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/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/engineering/to-spec/SKILL.md in tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/to-spec
Collection: One of 40 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What To Spec does

To Spec turns the current conversation and codebase context into a project issue spec. It publishes the spec, applies the ready-for-agent label, and avoids interviewing the user.

To Spec is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. To Spec comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code, codex and coding-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

This skill takes the current conversation context and codebase understanding and produces a spec. Do NOT interview the user — just synthesize what you already know.

The issue tracker and triage label vocabulary should have been provided to you — run /setup-matt-pocock-skills if not.

Process

Explore the repo to understand the current state of the codebase, if you haven't already. Use the project's domain glossary vocabulary throughout the spec, and respect any ADRs in the area you're touching.
Sketch out the seams at which you're going to test the feature. Existing seams should be preferred to new ones. Use the highest seam possible. If new seams are needed, propose them at the highest point you can. The fewer seams across the codebase, the better - the ideal number is one.

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

Commands To Spec provides

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

/setup-matt-pocock-skills
/spec-executor
/to-tickets

Frequently asked about To Spec

What else does tt-a1i publish alongside To Spec?
To Spec is one of 40 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Handoff, Ask Matt and Ask Matt. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way To Spec does, and is maintained by tt-a1i in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal page.
How does To Spec compare to other AI Engineering skills?
To Spec ranks #2327 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 To Spec against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.