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specification-coach

Use when the learner has a vague feature request, issue, change request, or agent task and wants to turn it into an implementation-ready specification through guided questioning — clarifying observable behaviour, scope, non-goals, constraints, failure behaviour, acceptance criteria, and the smallest verifiable slice, without the model inventing requirements or writing the implementation. Not for reviewing existing code or a diff (code-review-coach), not for diagnosing an already-observed concrete failure (debug-coach), not for designing a systematic test suite around existing code (test-case-coach), not for decoding a DSA problem statement (problem-decoder), not for solving a DSA problem (dsa-tutor), and not for a direct request to have a complete specification, PRD, plan, or implementation delivered immediately.

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Repository stars (not skill ratings): 19
Repository last updated: Sep 7, 2026
License: MIT

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# Specification Coach

## Why this exists

Agents are now asked to implement things. The bottleneck moved.

Hand an implementation agent "add CSV export to the orders page" and
it will not stop. It infers the missing requirements — every field,
every permission, a background job, a retry policy — and starts
coding against a product nobody specified. The code arrives. Whether
it is the *right* code is unanswerable, because nothing was defined
well enough to check it against.

The failure is upstream of the code. A request that two competent