awesome-spec-driven-development

Name: awesome-spec-driven-development
Author: Engineering4AI

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A curated list of awesome resources for spec-driven development (SDD)

211stars

23forks

Added 4/29/2026

Installation

# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/Engineering4AI/awesome-spec-driven-development

Getting Started

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Last scanned: 5/30/2026

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README.md

Frequently Asked Questions

What is awesome-spec-driven-development?

awesome-spec-driven-development is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by Engineering4AI. A curated list of awesome resources for spec-driven development (SDD). It has 211 GitHub stars.

Is awesome-spec-driven-development safe to use?

Yes. awesome-spec-driven-development passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.

How do I install awesome-spec-driven-development?

Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/Engineering4AI/awesome-spec-driven-development" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).

Are there alternatives to awesome-spec-driven-development?

Yes. SkillsLLM lists many other AI Agents skills you can browse and compare side by side. Open the AI Agents category from the badge at the top of this page, or use the Related Skills and comparison links further down to weigh awesome-spec-driven-development against similar tools.

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Introductions

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Development Frameworks

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IDE & Editor Integrations

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MCP Servers

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a pull request to add more tools to this awesome list.