Useful Links

A collection of links to spec-driven development tools, an external comparison that helps you pick the right one, and collections of practices for working with agents.

Tools covered in the book

Other SDD tools

The following tools are mentioned in the book without dedicated reviews.

  • GitHub Spec Kit ties the SDD phases together with separate commands. See the site and the repository.
  • Kiro supports SDD in an IDE. See the official site.
  • Tessl uses specifications during development. See the official site.
  • BMAD-Method organizes the work of role agents. See the repository.
  • Spec Kitty extends Spec Kit with git worktree support. See the repository.
  • Traycer Desktop brings agents, plans, execution and review into a shared workspace. The IDE extension retires on October 31, 2026; see the Desktop migration.
  • Get Shit Done drives a project through phases: discussion, specification, plan, execution and verification. See the repository.
  • Compound Engineering from Every ends each cycle with a step that saves what was learned for future tasks. See the repository.
  • HumanLayer offers commands for the research → plan → implement cycle. See the repository.

Tool comparison

Practices for working with agents

  • Claude Code best practices are Anthropic's official recommendations. See the documentation.
  • Codex best practices are OpenAI's official recommendations: framing the task, AGENTS.md, skills, review and common mistakes. See the guide.
  • claude-code-best-practice and codex-cli-best-practice collect tips from the tool developers and the community, with links to the original publications. See the repositories for Claude Code and for Codex.
  • awesome-codex-cli is a catalog of tools, skills and plugins for Codex. See the repository.

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