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A topic hub collecting every article tagged Spec-Driven Development. Use it to explore related posts and follow this theme across the site.
17 articles
Spec Kit fans a small change out into eight-plus files. Four practical levers — inline prompts, lean templates, trimmed commands, and impact-based routing — make its specs, plans, and tasks shorter without breaking the workflow.
A prompt-engineering teardown of Spec Kit's six core skills—and a practical blueprint for building an opinionated company spec workflow with custom Agent Skills.
A side-by-side comparison of OpenSpec and Superpowers for engineers and architects: what each tool actually ships, how spec generation differs, and where implementation discipline comes from.
Why OpenSpec's explore → propose → apply loop is a better default than built-in Plan Mode: lighter ceremony, durable repo-native plans, and guardrails that keep exploration agnostic until you choose to commit.
A practical workflow for using OpenSpec from exploration to proposal, implementation, quality checks, PR review, merge, and archive without letting specs drift from the code.
A practical deep dive into OpenSpec's expanded OPSX workflows and custom schemas: when to use /opsx:new, /opsx:continue, /opsx:ff, /opsx:verify, /opsx:bulk-archive, /opsx:onboard, and how to design your own workflow.
A practical, source-backed guide for engineers and PMs adopting OpenSpec: when to start with an existing project, when to use it for a new build, and how to run the first workflow safely.
A source-backed comparison of OpenSpec and GitHub Spec Kit for engineers and PMs: workflows, skills, generated artifacts, extensibility, and inferred token trade-offs.
A practical guide for engineers and PMs who want to use GitHub Spec Kit as an investigation workflow: compare alternatives, approve one direction, and turn the decision into a stronger implementation spec.
Spec Kit jumps straight to specify. Borrow two missing phases from OpenSpec-style workflows — an Explore mode and an Alternatives-Review mode — as two small extension commands, without forking or switching tools.
A practical, source-backed workflow for turning many comments on Spec Kit artifacts into clean pre-implementation decisions, post-implementation deltas, and less chaotic AI-assisted delivery.
A practical research guide for using Gherkin, BDD, Spec-Driven Development, and eval-driven workflows to make AI-assisted delivery clearer, safer, and easier to review.
AI is changing the center of gravity in software engineering: less manual typing, more specification, validation, system design, and human judgment.
A simple, source-backed guide for engineers and PMs to start with GitHub Spec Kit, understand the main commands, and use the workflow cleanly in Cursor or Claude Code.
An exploratory, source-backed article on reverse-engineering one feature into current-state specs in the old repo, then using those artifacts to drive a safer implementation in a new repo and a new stack.
A practical brownfield workflow for reconstructing one existing feature into spec.md, plan.md, tasks.md, and supporting Spec Kit artifacts without pretending you are starting from scratch.
A research-checked guide to adding GitHub Spec Kit to a brownfield repository, wiring it into Cursor IDE and Cursor Background Agents, and adapting the workflow for polyrepo delivery.
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