Spec Approve

Approve a Spec

The owner's gate-1 decision, recorded as a machine-readable signal: an approved spec is what spec-execute-next picks up. This decouples review from execution - approve a batch of specs now, and the AI works the approved queue later (scheduled or looped), with no further owner input until the PR.

Steps

1. Resolve the spec (argument, or the most recently created proposed spec). Read requirements, plan, and tasks end-to-end.
2. Pre-checks before recording approval: the spec is proposed (not already approved / in-progress / completed / cancelled); the plan cites concrete siblings; no open question is left that would block a cold executor. Surface anything that should block approval - the owner decides, this skill only records the decision.
3. Set the spec's frontmatter status: approved with the date. Change nothing else - approval records a decision, it does not edit spec content.
4. Report: the spec is queued; spec-execute-next will pick it up by value, or run spec-execute to start it now.

Verify

• The spec's status reads approved; nothing else in the spec changed.

Scope / hand-off

• Authoring or changing the spec - spec-create (update-mode). Executing - spec-execute / spec-execute-next.

CRITICAL

• Approval is the owner's call: the AI never sets approved on its own initiative (not inside spec-create, not autonomously) - only when the owner explicitly invokes this skill after reviewing.
• Approve only a proposed spec; re-approving or approving a mid-flight spec is a no-op with a warning.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: ainova-systems
• Source: ainova-systems/intelligence-dev-packs
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.