spec-driven-development

Spec-driven development enforces a structured workflow for creating, designing, executing, and critiquing specifications to ensure traceability between requirements and code implementation. It organizes specifications in a clear directory structure to maintain alignment and clarity throughout the development process.

You structure specifications using a clear directory layout, typically organizing files into reference and changes folders. This spec-driven workflow manages proposal, specification, design, planning, execution, and archiving phases through defined rules and templates to maintain code quality.

Yes, you can validate specifications by integrating an adversarial critique agent into your spec-driven workflow. This review process evaluates spec quality and alignment, ensuring your requirements are robust and clearly defined before implementation begins.

Yes, this spec-driven development workflow supports both compact and directory-based spec formats. It handles proposal, design, planning, execution, and archiving phases with clear rules and templates, accommodating different project scales and complexity levels.

You should use a specification-driven workflow when developing multi-faceted features that require meticulous requirement definition, architecture design, and progress tracking. It ensures final code precisely matches agreed-upon specifications, whereas unstructured development risks misalignment and reduced code quality.