speckit-scripts

Productivity

Bundled Spec Kit automation scripts (bash + PowerShell) and artifact templates that back the /speckit:* commands. Use when a spec-driven workflow needs to create a feature, set up plan/tasks, or check prerequisites, and the target project has no .specify/ yet.

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Spec Kit Scripts & Templates

This skill bundles the automation layer behind the /speckit:* commands: the shell scripts that create feature branches/dirs and wire up plan/tasks, plus the artifact templates (spec, plan, tasks, constitution, checklist) they render.

What's bundled

`scripts/bash/` (and `scripts/powershell/` mirror)

Script	Purpose
`common.sh`	Shared helpers: locate `.specify/` root, resolve feature paths, JSON output. Sourced by the others.
`create-new-feature.sh`	Create a feature (branch + `specs/<n>/` dir + `spec.md` from template). Used by `/speckit:specify`.
`setup-plan.sh`	Scaffold `plan.md` from the plan template for the current feature. Used by `/speckit:plan`.
`setup-tasks.sh`	Scaffold `tasks.md` for the current feature. Used by `/speckit:tasks`.
`check-prerequisites.sh`	Validate that required artifacts exist (`--require-tasks`, `--paths-only`, `--json`). Used by `analyze`, `clarify`, `implement`, `converge`, `checklist`.

`templates/`

spec-template.md, plan-template.md, tasks-template.md, constitution-template.md, checklist-template.md, vscode-settings.json — the canonical artifact shapes the scripts and commands fill in.

How the commands use these

The /speckit:* command frontmatter references scripts by a project-relative path, e.g.:

scripts:
  sh: scripts/bash/setup-plan.sh --json
  ps: scripts/powershell/setup-plan.ps1 -Json

At runtime these resolve against the target project's .specify/ directory — Spec Kit installs a copy of these scripts and templates into .specify/ when the project is initialized. So the canonical execution path is .specify/scripts/bash/<script>.sh, not this skill's copy.

Setup (when a project has no `.specify/`)

Spec-driven commands require the project to be initialized once:

specify init . --ai claude      # creates .specify/ with scripts + templates

/ac:index already runs this as part of repo initialization. If specify (the CLI) is not available, this skill's scripts/ and templates/ are the reference copies to seed .specify/ manually:

mkdir -p .specify/scripts .specify/templates
cp -r <this-skill>/scripts/* .specify/scripts/
cp -r <this-skill>/templates/* .specify/templates/

Boundaries

These scripts operate on .specify/-structured projects. Running them outside such a project (no .specify/ marker found by common.sh) will fail fast — initialize first.
The bash and powershell trees are mirrors; use whichever matches the host shell.
Do not edit the bundled scripts to hardcode a project path — resolution is dynamic via common.sh's .specify/ upward search.