What problem does it solve?
This Skill turns a GitHub issue into a structured, branch-scoped specification so planning starts from a clear, consistent brief instead of a blank document.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Issue Distillation: Extracts the issue’s overview, objective, constraints, and references into concise SPEC sections.
- Branch-Aware Workflow: Handles main-branch branch creation, feature-branch prompts, and safe local-only commits.
- Spec-Driven Handoff: Prepares the specification for the next planning step without drifting into implementation details.
- Use Case: When a product or engineering lead says to scaffold issue 123, this Skill produces the SPEC foundation and hands it off for planning.
Quick Start
Use the scaffold-issue skill to turn issue #123 into a populated .claude/SPEC.md, confirm or create the branch, and commit the scaffolded specification.