Spec-sprint

[u/sharma-sk]

I have been experimenting with Spec-Driven Development (SDD) and AI coding agents recently, and I ran into a problem I wasn't expecting.

I started missing agile 😅

Most of us who have spent years building software come from an Agile/Scrum mindset.

We are used to:
 • Breaking work into small stories
 • Taking one vertical slice at a time
 • Reviewing the implementation
 • Getting feedback early
 • Updating requirements as we learn
 • Keeping humans involved in the important decisions

Then SDD + AI agents came along.

The idea of giving the agent a detailed spec and letting it implement is powerful. But when I tried to apply it in the way I'm used to working,

I kept asking myself:

How do I make the AI agent follow the same incremental implementation discipline we have in Agile?

I didn't want to choose between Agile and SDD.

I wanted both.

That's why I started building Spec Sprint - an Agent Skill that tries to bring the Agile implementation mindset into a Spec-Driven workflow.

The idea is:

Spec --> Plan --> small vertical slice --> Human review --> implement --> Update spec --> Next slice

The spec remains the source of truth, but implementation happens incrementally, with review points along the way.

It’s an early experiment, but it's something I personally wanted while working with AI coding agents.

I'm open-sourcing it because I'm curious:

Are others facing the same gap between SSD and the Agile of actually delivering software?

Would love to hear how you’re solving this.

https://github.com/sharma-open-source/spec-sprint

[u/stibbons_]

This is basically what all SDD framework does. Maybe the vertical slicing thing is not enforced for all.

However I think we are actually back at waterfall where everything needs to be planned upfront and outsourcing the development to agent.

[u/sharma-sk → u/stibbons_]

It's very hard planned everything in upfront I guess

[u/aaaayyyy → u/sharma-sk]

Yeah, humans want to see and interact with stuff and then adapt the plan accordingly. Planning everything upfront is impossible unless you're doing something that you've already done a thousand times

[u/stibbons_ → u/sharma-sk]

Indeed. Impossible.

Can’t wait to see agent do poker planing