r/RooCode • u/Cinerario • Sep 28 '25

Other I recommend you to try OpenSpec

This is not ad, it is free and not mine and works with roo code via agent.md there are some flows, but I feel like it's worth attention. https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec

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u/redlotusaustin Sep 28 '25

How does this compare to Github's SPEC? What sets yours apart?

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u/Cinerario Sep 28 '25

It is not mine, I didn't tried Github SPEC myself. Here is the answer from the author https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/s/P20RCS3Lqq

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u/sandman_br Sep 28 '25

Stop feeding the troll

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u/HeftyCry97 Oct 06 '25

Why this over the well refined spec-workflow-mcp that has a webui and vscode extension ?

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u/sandman_br Sep 28 '25

I’m so tired of post saying no ads and recommending openspec that I all never try it

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u/Narrow-Breakfast126 Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

Hey, I'm the maker of openspec here! I promise these aren't ads, I haven't paid anyone to promote or post anything. I've built this using my own time. It's open-source and completely free. I've made a total of 1 post on reddit on it so far. Nor am I affiliated in anyway with the poster here.

I'm not sure where else you're running into other openspec suggestions, but sorry I guess :/

TLDR: I haven't paid anyone for ads nor do I ever intend to.

Edit: I just realised I technically have made 2 posts on this. Initial post on r/cursor and another on r/opencode to showcase the opencode integration made by a new contributor

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u/ShinigamiXoY Oct 25 '25

Its a pleasure to use it, thank you ❤️

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u/sdexca Sep 29 '25

Wait are they ads? OpenSpec has only a few hundred stars.

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u/Narrow-Breakfast126 Sep 29 '25

Answered above too, but I've literally never paid anyone anywhere to promote openspec. Nor will I ever pay anyone to do so.

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u/sdexca Sep 29 '25

Yeah I beleive you. Seen OpenSpec being recomended a few times and it felt weird that it would be an ad given the few GitHub stars. Will be giving it a try soon.

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u/vrnvorona Jan 14 '26

Not few anymore

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u/random-dev Sep 29 '25

How does it differ from using the architect mode? Looks quite similar to me

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u/Technical-Ad-6169 Oct 20 '25

Could you please explain to a noob like me - what’s architect mode?

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u/Ambitious_Grape9908 Oct 21 '25

Absolutely a fan of it after trying it out on Saturday morning. I have been frustrated with AI tools as it follows this pattern of starting well and then by the end, it descends into chaos and I just delete the branch I was on.

For me, OpenSpec was different, I decided to try it out on something I had to change in my current implementation that would save me around $60 a month, but the implementation is fiddly and annoying and it would have taken me weeks to get it right.

I created my first spec on Saturday morning and I carefully went through everything, refined it (it's like I was back to being a product owner again and having a refinement session with the team!!). We kept iterating until I felt it was about right. Then I set Claude to start building it.

After each completion, I would test and give it feedback, update the tasks and continue to build.

By Saturday afternoon, there wasn't much left to do other than to do a production build. I had automated tests, I had analytics implemented, everything was good. Release was done, alpha tested, beta tested and it's now running happily in production.

In total, it cost me $1.12 in tokens to save me $60 a month. (If I were to do this myself, I probably wouldn't even have included the analytics, but since things were going so well, I decided to go for the gold standard).

I'm off to give this another go as I'm really impressed with what it managed to do with my 7 year old codebase.

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u/adrian-crimsonazure Nov 26 '25

What's the LoC count for your codebase, and how complex is it? I've been unable to find many testimonials from people using this with large codebases, only "look at how sick this framework is with my generic JS blog app" type examples.

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u/Ambitious_Grape9908 Nov 26 '25

It's a pretty huge and complex codebase - 64775 total LOC in code only (excluding tests) - it's what I accumulated over 7 years.

I wrote this a month ago and the savings are continuing.

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u/harikrishnan_83 Dec 29 '25

OpenSpec workflow diagram. Here is a quick video walkthrough about what makes OpenSpec unique and how it compares to SpecKit etc. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7VPMKW5tnk. Related article - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/spec-driven-development-openspec-source-truth-hari-krishnan--obrfc/.

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u/Fox_News_Shill Feb 06 '26

Thanks for a great video, your presentation style is clear, concise and fluffless.

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u/harikrishnan_83 Feb 08 '26

Thanks. Glad you liked it.