{"slug": "show-hn-tracking-spec-driven-development-in-the-wild", "title": "Show HN: Tracking spec-driven development in the wild", "summary": "A new community-maintained open directory is tracking spec-driven development frameworks and real-world projects to evaluate their effectiveness, featuring Matt Pocock's composable agent skills built around 'grilling' interviews and the Superpowers framework used by projects like logitune and yserver. The directory, which updates repository metrics daily and requires human review for qualitative assessments, currently lists frameworks including Claude Code and Codex, with Matt Pocock's skills repository at 241.2K stars.", "body_md": "An open directory tracking spec-driven development frameworks and real-world projects over time, to evaluate how effective different approaches are in practice.\n\nMatt Pocock's composable family of agent skills built around \"grilling\" — a relentless one-question-at-a-time interview that aligns human and agent before code is written — chaining into spec, tickets, and TDD implementation.\n\nClaude Code\n\nCodex\n\nAny skills-compatible agent\n\nmattpocock/skills\n· ★ 241.2K stars ·\npushed 7 days ago\n·\nReviewed last month\n\nAgile AI development framework that simulates a full team of specialized agent personas across a four-phase lifecycle, scaling its ceremony to project complexity.\n\nA Linux configuration app for Logitech devices (an Options+ clone) that has routed nearly every feature and bug fix through paired Superpowers design specs and implementation plans since its first week.\n\nmmaher88/logitune\n· using Superpowers\n· ★ 643 stars ·\npushed last month\n· Reviewed 5 hours ago\n\nA modern X11 server written from scratch in Rust, developed spec-first from day one — every feature phase flows through dated design docs, implementation plans, and findings under docs/superpowers/.\n\njoske/yserver\n· using Superpowers\n· ★ 549 stars ·\npushed 3 days ago\n· Reviewed 5 hours ago\n\nThis observatory is community-maintained. Repository metrics update automatically every day; the qualitative\nassessments — spec structure, drift, rework, maintenance outcomes — need human eyes. Submit a framework or\nproject, or help review an existing one. Read how we track to see what goes into\neach page.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-tracking-spec-driven-development-in-the-wild", "canonical_source": "https://sddobservatory.com/", "published_at": "2026-08-31 04:31:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-31 04:52:44.662750+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-agents", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Matt Pocock", "Claude Code", "Codex", "Superpowers", "logitune", "yserver", "mmaher88", "joske"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-tracking-spec-driven-development-in-the-wild", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-tracking-spec-driven-development-in-the-wild.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-tracking-spec-driven-development-in-the-wild.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-tracking-spec-driven-development-in-the-wild.jsonld"}}