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📋spec-kit

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💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development

⭐ Hugely popular: 129k stars, gaining about 4k a week

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repo profile

vintage 2025 1 year old
language Python
license MIT

momentum

total stars 129k
stars added last week +4k
HN peak 84 pts 9mo ago
commits / week 81 steady · +14% vs prior mo
issues closed 89% ~1 day to close, median
contributors 273 (+6 in 15d)
release cadence weekly
last activity yesterday

durability

backing company-owned GitHub / Microsoft
openness permissive
bus factor 3 concentrated
top-author share 25% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

since we covered it

monthly average + 9k/mo (+33%/mo) · + 100k total since PR#18

why it's a big deal

  • Shifts software development toward spec-first workflows that are auditable and repeatable.
  • Bridges human intent and machine implementation by encoding requirements as executable artifacts.
  • Provides a practical path for enterprises to ensure compliance, governance, and quality in AI-assisted coding.

under the hood

  • CLI built around specify, /constitution, /plan, /tasks, and /implement commands.
  • Works with multiple AI coding agents (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, Gemini, Qwen).
  • Licensed under MIT, with maintained support from GitHub engineers.

our take from PR#18, 2025-10-01

star history

PR#18 · 29k129k now Aug 2025Aug 2026
  1. PR#18 29k 2025-10-01
  2. now 129k + 100k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Output and attention are roughly in balance.

+0 understory score output 92 · clout 92
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#18 2025-10-01 on the radar

    Spec-Driven Development Toolkit

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