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Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development. Version 0.14.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25.

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overview

Package summary

Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development

Commands and aliases

  • specify

history

Project history and usage

Spec Kit is GitHub's open source toolkit for spec-driven development with AI coding agents, exposed through the specify CLI.

Project history

The project describes Spec-Driven Development as a workflow where specifications become the center of implementation rather than disposable planning documents. Its core flow produces spec, plan, tasks, and implementation artifacts for use by AI coding agents.

Adoption history

GitHub's documentation presents Spec Kit as an agent-neutral toolkit with 30+ integrations, community extensions, presets, and role-based bundles. GitHub API metadata for the official repository shows a public repository created in 2025 and a large star and fork count by July 2026.

How it is used

Users install the specify CLI from the official GitHub repository, initialize a project with specify init, choose an AI coding-agent integration, and then use generated agent commands such as /speckit.specify, /speckit.plan, /speckit.tasks, and /speckit.implement.

Why package nerds care

Spec Kit is interesting to package-manager users because its official installation path intentionally points at GitHub-based uv or pipx workflows, and the docs warn that same-named PyPI packages are not maintained by the project. It is a modern example of a CLI whose package identity and source provenance matter.

Timeline

  • 2025: The official GitHub repository was created on August 21, according to GitHub API metadata.
  • 2026: Spec Kit documentation listed 30+ integrations, 105 community extensions, and 22 presets.
  • 2026: Release v0.12.3 was published on July 1, according to GitHub releases.

Related projects

  • Related integrations named by the docs include GitHub Copilot, Gemini, Codex, Claude, Zed, Kiro, Forge, and generic agent support.

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for specify. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 3 runtime dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

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specifycliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-25
manager version0.14.2
manager updated2026-07-25
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.14.2

https://github.com/github/spec-kit

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:specify
Version0.14.2
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/specify
Homepagehttps://github.github.com/spec-kit/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/github/spec-kit
Upstream docshttps://github.github.io/spec-kit
LicenseMIT
Source archivehttps://github.com/github/spec-kit/archive/refs/tags/v0.14.2.tar.gz
Last updated2026-07-25T00:57:23Z
Pulseupdated
Dependenciescertifi, libyaml, python@3.14
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namespecify
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

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Same workflow

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source trail

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This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment