What Spec-Driven Toolkit Would You Build? Share Your Ideas

[NeilJo-GY]

MetaSpec enables you to generate Spec-Driven X toolkits for ANY domain. We want to hear YOUR ideas!

🌟 The Spec-Driven Philosophy

Spec-Driven means: Define structured specifications → Validate & generate → Execute workflows

This pattern works for ANY domain:

• 📐 SD-Specification (SDS): Generate specification frameworks
• 🔧 SD-Development (SDD): Build development toolkits
• 🎨 SD-Design: Design system validators, component generators
• 🧪 SD-Testing: Domain-specific testing frameworks
• 📚 SD-Documentation: Auto-generate docs from structured specs
• ⚙️ SD-Operations: Infrastructure as specs, deployment automation
• 📱 SD-Marketing: Campaign specs, content generation, analytics
• 🔌 SD-API: API design, validation, mock generation
• 📊 SD-Data: Data pipeline specs, schema validation

🎯 Real Example: MetaSpec Uses SDS + SDD

MetaSpec itself was built using both SDS and SDD!

📐 Phase 1: SDS (Spec-Driven Specification)

Purpose: Define what a "speckit" is

/metaspec.sds.constitution  # Define: What makes a good speckit?
/metaspec.sds.specify       # Define: Entities (commands, templates, parser, validator)
/metaspec.sds.plan          # Plan: Specification architecture
/metaspec.sds.implement     # Output: Specification documents (NOT code)

Result: Clear specifications for "what is a speckit" and "what can it do"

🔧 Phase 2: SDD (Spec-Driven Development)

Purpose: Build MetaSpec toolkit itself

/metaspec.sdd.constitution  # Define: Implementation principles
/metaspec.sdd.specify       # Define: CLI commands, parser, validator APIs
/metaspec.sdd.plan          # Plan: Python package architecture
/metaspec.sdd.tasks         # Break down: Implementation tasks
/metaspec.sdd.implement     # Build: Write actual Python code

Result: MetaSpec CLI tool (metaspec init, metaspec search, etc.)

🚀 The Power of Composition

MetaSpec proves you can combine SDS + SDD:

• Use SDS when defining specifications (the "what")
• Use SDD when building implementations (the "how")
• Compose them for complete lifecycle coverage

🤔 Share Your Vision

What toolkit would solve YOUR pain points?

Template to get started:

**Domain**: [Your domain, e.g., "API Testing"]
**Problem**: [What's repetitive/manual today?]
**SDS or SDD?**: [Do you need specs, implementation, or both?]
**Vision**: [What would your ideal speckit do?]
**Example**: [One concrete command or workflow]

Example Ideas to Inspire You

💡 SD-API-Testing (SDS + SDD)

Domain: API Testing
Problem: Writing similar test cases for every endpoint, managing test data
Approach:

• SDS: Define API testing specifications (endpoints, test scenarios, assertions)
• SDD: Build testing toolkit (test runner, mock server, reporter)

Example:

metaspec init api-testing-speckit
# Use SDS to define test specs, SDD to build test runner
api-testing-speckit validate openapi.yaml --generate-tests

💡 SD-Database-Migration (SDS only)

Domain: Database Schema Evolution
Problem: Manual migration scripts, inconsistent validation
Approach:

• SDS: Define schema specification format
• Users write schema specs → toolkit validates & generates migrations

Example: db-migration-speckit plan schema.yaml --check-breaking-changes

💡 SD-Kubernetes-Config (SDS + SDD)

Domain: K8s Configuration Management
Problem: YAML hell, no validation, hard to reuse patterns
Approach:

• SDS: Define deployment specifications (microservice patterns)
• SDD: Build manifest generator and validator

Example: k8s-speckit generate microservice.spec --output deploy/

🧩 When to Use SDS vs SDD?

Scenario	SDS	SDD	Both
Define a specification format	✅	-	-
Build a toolkit/tool	-	✅	-
Complete framework (spec + tool)	-	-	✅

Most powerful: Use both (like MetaSpec itself!)

🚀 What Happens Next?

• 💬 Community votes on popular ideas
• 🛠️ Contributors can adopt and build them (use MetaSpec to generate!)
• 📦 Share completed speckits in awesome-spec-kits

Drop your ideas below! Let's discover the next killer speckit together 🎯

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Resources:

• 📖 Quick Start Guide
• 🤖 AI Workflow Guide (AGENTS.md)
• 🌐 Community Speckits
• 💡 MetaSpec's Built-in Commands (19 commands: 8 SDS + 8 SDD + 3 Evolution)