Grace spec
Skill osovv/grace-marketplace/plugins/grace/skills/grace/grace-spec
GRACE (Graph-RAG Anchored Code Engineering): open Agent Skills for contract-driven AI code generation with semantic markup, knowledge graphs, and support for Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Kilo Code.
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Interview the user and create an approved GRACE 4 GraceChangeSpec plus optional design-context.xml inside .grace/changes/active/C-*/.
SKILL.md
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spec.xml— normativeGraceChangeSpecdesign-context.xml— optional, explanatory onlyplan.xml— created later bygrace-plan</change_bundle_contract>
<status_rules>
Create spec.xml as status="draft". Set status="approved" only after explicit user approval. Rejected or cancelled specs move to archive with terminal status. Do not create or edit plan.xml in this skill.
</status_rules>
<strict_contract>
The direct C-* wrapper must contain exactly one meaningful Summary, Goals, Constraints, NonGoals, AcceptanceCriteria, AffectedAreas, and VerificationIntent section. Empty containers are not approval-ready. Semantic anchors are canonical attribute-free XML tags, never attributes or attribute values.
</strict_contract>
<hard_rules>
spec.xmlis the source of truth forgrace-plan; design context never adds requirements.- Do not implement code, mutate current graph/verification state, or create retroactive change bundles.
- Recommend
grace lint --path <project-root> --assertions currentafter writing the bundle. </hard_rules> </skill>
Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most plan spec skills give in 433 tokens
Counted across 1,100 of the 1,860 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-06
- ask one question at a timein 46 of 1100, across 38 files
- Break plans into vertical slicesin 28 of 1100, across 10 files
- Publish issues in dependency orderin 27 of 1100, across 9 files
- Iterate until user approves the breakdownin 24 of 1100, across 6 files
- Explore the repository to understand the codebase statein 24 of 1100, across 7 files
- Use domain glossary vocabularyin 23 of 1100, across 5 files
- Apply correct triage labels to published issuesin 23 of 1100, across 5 files
- Write failing tests before implementation codein 23 of 1100, across 18 files
- Prefer AFK slices over HITLin 22 of 1100, across 7 files
- ask clarifying questions until requirements are concretein 21 of 1100, across 13 files
- Respect existing architecture decision recordsin 20 of 1100, across 5 files
- write a specification before writing any codein 20 of 1100, across 12 files
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- propose design summary and assumptions
- create deterministic uppercase change id
- copy spec template
- create design context for extra rationale
- keep draft status without explicit approval
- recommend running grace lint
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