speckit-specify

To generate feature specifications from natural language descriptions, you provide a text prompt to the system, which extracts key concepts and outputs a structured specification document with user scenarios, functional requirements, and success criteria.

Yes, you can automatically create a new git branch when defining a feature specification. The system optionally handles branch creation directly alongside initializing the spec directory and generating the template file.

Yes, you need Python and spec-kit installed to convert text into specification documents. The system also requires your project to have an existing .specify/ directory structure to function properly.

The best way to validate feature specification quality is using the built-in checklist validation. The system automatically validates your generated document against a checklist to ensure completeness and verify all required functional requirements are present.

Feature extraction for software development specifications works by parsing your natural language text input, identifying the core concepts, and generating a standardized short name for the feature to populate the structured document template.