# Spec-driven development

Band: emerging — Real practice, thin evidence. Mostly vendor-stated or reported rather than measured.
Group: Unsurveyed water
Implemented by: https://clickai.dev/skills/to-tickets

Writing a spec first and generating from it, rather than prompting straight to code. GitHub's spec-kit ships a real pipeline — constitution, specify, plan, tasks, implement — with a clarify step for underspecified areas and a checklist step honestly described as “unit tests for English.” Real tooling with real adoption. Be sceptical of the stronger claim that specs are literally executable, which overstates what a markdown file does; this catalog's version puts the spec in the work item instead.

## See also

- [Issue-as-spec](https://clickai.dev/legend/issue-as-spec)
- [Tracer bullet](https://clickai.dev/legend/tracer-bullet)
- [Fog](https://clickai.dev/legend/fog)

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