The Agentic Startup

Creates comprehensive Product Requirements Documents, Solution Design Documents, and Implementation Plans before coding, reducing rework and ensuring clarity from the start, as outlined in the spec cycle taking 15-30 minutes.

Coordinates specialist agents like architects and engineers working simultaneously, improving accuracy by 2-22% over single agents, based on cited research and implemented through skills like /implement and /review.

Persists specifications on disk in .start/specs/, allowing work to continue in new conversations after hitting context limits via commands like /specify 001, solving a common AI workflow bottleneck.

Includes validation steps (/validate, /review) that check for completeness, consistency, and correctness at each development phase, enforcing quality standards and constitution compliance as shown in the workflow diagram.

Automatically flags discrepancies between implementation and spec during /implement, and adapts code reviews based on code changes (e.g., security for async code), catching scope creep and ensuring adherence.