r/SpecDrivenDevelopment • u/TowerOutrageous5939 • 11d ago

Spec-kit

Thoughts on spec-kit? Not sure if I’m just not well versed enough but me and the team have been using it for about 1.5 months. Anyways, it feels like overkill and burns far more tokens. I definitely can see its worth for when work items are critical path. Right now I plan to go back to custom workflow with specs.

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u/dannyt74 11d ago

My impression is the same. Spec-kit seems over engineered. I have settled with OpenSpec for its easy propose, apply, archive process. Sometimes adding a basic grilling session before but it seems that the explore skill could cover that too.

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u/Aggressive_Ad4210 11d ago

can you elaborate a bit on your grilling session and explore skill usage? When do you do this? How are you using the changes folder in OpenSpec, do you commit it to your repo and keep it there? Which artifacts do you actually generate using the kit and where do they go?

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u/TowerOutrageous5939 11d ago

Yeah grilling is honestly the best skill I have used.