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Development Notes

Spec Kit is a toolkit for spec-driven development. At its core, it is a coordinated set of prompts, templates, scripts, and CLI/integration assets that define and deliver a spec-driven workflow for AI coding agents. This document is a starting point for people modifying Spec Kit itself, with a compact orientation to the key project documents and repository organization.

Essential project documents:

Document Role
README.md Primary user-facing overview of Spec Kit and its workflow.
DEVELOPMENT.md This document.
spec-driven.md End-to-end explanation of the Spec-Driven Development workflow supported by Spec Kit.
RELEASE-PROCESS.md Release workflow, versioning rules, and changelog generation process.
docs/index.md Entry point to the docs/ documentation set.
CONTRIBUTING.md Contribution process, review expectations, testing, and required development practices.

Main repository components:

Directory Role
templates/ Prompt assets and templates that define the core workflow behavior and generated artifacts.
scripts/ Supporting scripts used by the workflow, setup, and repository tooling.
src/specify_cli/ Python source for the specify CLI, including agent-specific assets.
extensions/ Extension-related docs, catalogs, and supporting assets.
presets/ Preset-related docs, catalogs, and supporting assets.