Learn LiteSpec

Intent#

These pages explain what LiteSpec is, why it exists, and how its parts fit together. Read them in order the first time. They state no rules of their own: the rules are on the standards pages they link to.

Reading order#

• Why LiteSpec exists: the problem LiteSpec solves for teams that build with AI agents.
• How LiteSpec works: the standard, the records, the model and the tools, followed through one real use case.
• Read the standard: how pages, stacks, selections, provisions, and extensions fit together, and how to find what applies to you.
• Records and the project model: what a project writes down, and what the model builder works out from the code.
• How the tools fit together: which tool does what, when each runs, and what it reads and writes.
• How LiteSpec compares: LiteSpec beside the other approaches to spec-driven development, and when each fits.
• Work with agents: how an agent loads LiteSpec, what it may decide, and what it leaves to you.
• Adopt LiteSpec: what changes for a team, in the order a team usually does it.

Next#

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