Skills

Spec Kitty ships two overlapping skill surfaces. The newer, short-named spk-* hierarchy is the 3.2.0 forward-looking public naming convention — one skill per family, each covering a bounded slice of "how do I operate Spec Kitty?" A set of spec-kitty-* legacy/detailed-workflow skills still ships alongside it; several spk-* skills alias to one of these for their full mechanics rather than duplicating that depth inline. This catalog leads with spk-* ids as canonical: where a legacy skill is the one carrying the real depth, the Legacy Alias column names it, and the linked deep page (where one exists) documents both under the spk-* heading. Skills with no confirmed legacy alias are self-contained.

Generated slash-command skills (spec-kitty.specify, spec-kitty.plan, and so on) are a separate, distinct surface tied to slash-command compatibility rather than the spk-*/legacy split — see Slash Commands for that catalog instead of re-listing it here.

spk-start-*

Skill ID	Purpose	Legacy Alias	Deep Page
spk-start-here	First route for users and agents	—	spk-start-here
spk-start-first-feature	First mission walkthrough	—	—
spk-start-command-map	Command-to-skill map	—	—
spk-start-agent-surface	Agent host compatibility	—	—

spk-mission-*

Skill ID	Purpose	Legacy Alias	Deep Page
spk-mission-specify	Specification phase	—	—
spk-mission-plan	Planning phase	—	—
spk-mission-tasks	Tasks and WP authoring	—	—
spk-mission-types	Mission type selection	—	—
spk-mission-research	Research workflows	—	—
spk-mission-documentation	Documentation missions	—	—

spk-run-*

Skill ID	Purpose	Legacy Alias	Deep Page
spk-run-next	Runtime-next control loop	spec-kitty-runtime-next	spk-run-next
spk-run-program-orchestrate	Multi-mission program orchestration	spec-kitty-program-orchestrate	—
spk-run-implement-review	WP implementation/review orchestration	spec-kitty-implement-review	spk-run-implement-review
spk-run-review-wp	Single-WP review	spec-kitty-runtime-review	—
spk-run-blocked-recovery	Blocked-state recovery	—	—

spk-gate-*

Skill ID	Purpose	Legacy Alias	Deep Page
spk-gate-accept	Accept gate	—	—
spk-gate-merge	Merge gate	—	—
spk-gate-mission-review	Post-merge mission review	spec-kitty-mission-review	spk-gate-mission-review
spk-gate-retrospective	Post-merge retrospective	—	—

spk-admin-*

Skill ID	Purpose	Legacy Alias	Deep Page
spk-admin-setup-doctor	Install and repair	spec-kitty-setup-doctor	spk-admin-setup-doctor
spk-admin-agent-config	Agent setup	—	—
spk-admin-upgrade	Upgrade and migrations	—	—
spk-admin-dashboard	Status and dashboard	—	—
spk-admin-git-workflow	Git and worktree workflows	spec-kitty-git-workflow	—

spk-team-*

Skill ID	Purpose	Legacy Alias	Deep Page
spk-team-auth	Auth and accounts	—	—
spk-team-sync	Hosted/team sync	—	—
spk-team-tracker	Tracker workflows	—	—
spk-team-connectors	Connector integrations	—	—

spk-doctrine-*

Skill ID	Purpose	Legacy Alias	Deep Page
spk-doctrine-charter	Charter workflows	spec-kitty-charter-doctrine	—
spk-doctrine-glossary	Terminology	spec-kitty-glossary-context	—
spk-doctrine-spdd-reasons	REASONS Canvas	spec-kitty-spdd-reasons	—
spk-doctrine-profile-load	Agent profiles	ad-hoc-profile-load	spk-doctrine-profile-load
spk-doctrine-semantic-compression	Semantic compression	—	—
spk-doctrine-bulk-edit	Bulk-edit classification	spec-kitty-bulk-edit-classification	—

spk-integrate-*

Skill ID	Purpose	Legacy Alias	Deep Page
spk-integrate-orchestrator-api	External orchestrator API	spec-kitty-orchestrator-api-operator	—

spk-meta-*

Skill ID	Purpose	Legacy Alias	Deep Page
spk-meta-skill-map	Discovery and naming convention	—	spk-meta-skill-map
spk-meta-skill-authoring	Future skill authoring	—	—

Legacy / Detailed Workflow Skills

spec-kitty-* legacy skills not already captured as a Legacy Alias target above:

Skill ID	Purpose	Deep Page
spec-kitty-mission-system	Mission types, step contracts, procedures, action indices, template resolution	—

All other legacy spec-kitty-* skills are named in the Legacy Alias column of the family tables above, next to the spk-* skill they support.