The Spec Cheat Sheet for Coding Agents
So your coding agent builds what you mean: six questions every spec should answer, four prompts that take you from idea to code, and patterns for testable acceptance criteria. Compact and printable, so the cheat sheet stays next to you while you work.
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What's inside
The six questions of a spec
One guiding question per section, from "Why?" to "How do we know it's done?"
Four prompts to copy
First the agent interviews you, then it reviews the spec, plans, and implements it one task at a time.
Testable acceptance criteria
Five sentence patterns (EARS) with examples, plus four check questions that expose vague requirements.
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In the workshop, your team practices this on a real project
In the two-day workshop "Agentic Engineering for Teams", your team writes a testable spec for one of its own tasks and implements it with Claude Code. The cheat sheet sums up the spec part of the workshop.