SpecDevShip is a 19-skill Workflow Pack that wraps your AI coding agent in a real spec-driven pipeline — triage, tier decisions, root-cause investigation, and approval gates that actually hold. Built for solo developers shipping products they'll still be maintaining in a year.
Claude Code Edition — available now More agents — coming soon
Your AI coding agent will happily generate a confident, plausible plan for the wrong problem at the same speed it generates the right one. Without a system wrapped around it, that speed works against you.
Decisions live in a chat that scrolled past. Three weeks later, nobody — including the AI — can tell you whether something was a deliberate call or a guess that happened to compile.
Left alone, an AI agent doesn't reliably tell "add a button" from "redesign the data model." Small requests quietly become big changes mid-implementation.
“Probably a race condition” is a shrug with technical vocabulary. Fixes get proposed before the actual cause is ever found.
Every piece of work enters through intake, gets explicitly scoped, and hands off automatically to the next stage — the way a disciplined teammate would, without you having to remember the process yourself.
flowchart TD
A[Idea] --> B{Tier decision}
B -->|Light tier| L1[spec-plan]
B -->|Full tier| F1[spec-requirements]
A -.->|unclear cause| INV[investigate]
INV -.-> B
A -.->|existing material| AN[app / design / art / product analysis]
AN -.-> F1
F1 --> F2[spec-tech]
F2 --> F3[spec-design]
F3 --> F4[spec-tasks]
L1 --> APR{Approved?}
F4 --> APR
APR -->|Yes| IMP[implement-tasks]
APR -.->|Revise| L1
IMP --> WRAP[wrap-up]
WRAP --> REL[prepare-release]
Not a single mega-prompt — a set of specialists that hand off to each other, the way a real team divides work.
Most work is light tier: one plan, one focused test script. Only genuine new-architecture work escalates to the full requirements → tech → design → tasks pipeline.
Bug reports get a real root-cause investigation, cited to file and line, before any fix is proposed — never a guess dressed up as a diagnosis.
App, design, art, and product-identity analysis skills extract what actually exists before a redesign or extension gets specced against a half-remembered impression.
A structured Product Manager interview for new ideas; a Designer and Art Director that pitch real directions, get your pick, then run with full autonomy.
Every spec carries draft/approved status. Nothing gets silently edited out from under you once you've signed off on it.
Walkthroughs, changelog entries, and semver bumps derived straight from your commit history — no separate release ritual to remember.
The tier decision, the investigation discipline, and the approval gates aren't tied to any one AI coding agent — they're the workflow itself. Editions ship one at a time; this page updates as each one goes live.
Buy once, and every future agent edition of the Workflow Pack is included as a free update — for as long as SpecDevShip keeps this product actively maintained and for sale. See the Terms for the full "lifetime updates" definition.
| Light tier (most work) | Full tier (rare) | |
|---|---|---|
| When | Features, fixes, UI work, refactors | New app, or real new architecture/risk |
| Output | implementation_plan.md | requirements.md → tech.md → design.md → tasks.md |
| Testing | Focused regression script + manual checks | Coverage-targeted automated suite |
The field guide walks through the whole system in plain language. When you're ready to run it, the full skill pack drops straight into your own project.
A practical eBook covering the tier-decision framework, the investigate-before-you-fix discipline, and how approval gates work day to day.
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All 19 skills, ready to drop straight into your project — triage, investigation, analysis, origination, both spec tiers, implementation, wrap-up, and release automation. Currently shipping as the Claude Code Edition.
Included free for field-guide subscribers via the email sequence. See Terms for what "lifetime" covers.
Right now, yes — the Workflow Pack currently ships as the Claude Code Edition, a drop-in project template plus personal account skills. Editions for other AI coding agents are planned; see the Agents section above for what's currently supported.
Yes. Every future edition of the Workflow Pack — for whichever agents we add support for next — is included as a free update to your existing $49 purchase, for as long as this product remains actively maintained and for sale. It doesn't extend to unrelated future SpecDevShip products; full definition in the Terms.
For a one-off script, yes — skip it. It earns its keep on anything you'll still be maintaining in six months, where an undocumented decision or an unfindable root cause actually costs you time.
The field guide explains how the workflow thinks — the tier decision, the investigation discipline, the approval gates. The pack is the thing itself: all 19 skills, installed and running in your own project.
No. Idea Analysis routes you automatically — most work only ever touches the light-tier plan skill. The full pipeline and the origination skills (product, design, art direction) only come up when the work actually calls for them.
No. The skill pack is a one-time $49 purchase with lifetime updates. The field guide is free.
Three places to start — how the tier decision actually works, what shipping an MVP with it looks like, and the full case for ditching vibe-coding.
The flagship rundown of the whole workflow — and why velocity without a system quietly costs you three weeks later.
Most work is light tier. Here's exactly how the workflow decides when a change has crossed into full-tier territory.
Speed to MVP and a workflow you won't have to retrofit later aren't actually in tension. Here's how the tier system keeps them from colliding.