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spec-kitty: Streamline Spec‑Driven Development with AI Agents

Boost your product’s delivery speed using spec‑driven workflows, AI‑powered coding agents, Kanban view, git worktrees, and auto‑merge. Ideal for founders building serious software.

From the repo · “Spec-Driven Development for serious software developers. Spec Coding with with Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Codex. Kanban dashboard, git worktrees, auto-merge and more.”

1,693 stars+12★ this week184 forksPythonGuide quality 8/10 · reviewed Oct 12Updated 10/21/2026100% free · open source
What it does

Spec-kitty enables spec-driven development by automatically managing git worktrees, auto-merging, and providing a kanban dashboard for streamlined development workflows

When to use it
  • •When a development team needs to manage complex software development workflows with multiple branches and merges
  • •When a project requires automated testing and validation of code changes
  • •When a team wants to visualize and track development progress using a kanban dashboard
Ready-to-paste prompt
spec-kitty spec new my_spec --claude --cursor --git-worktree
Heads up: Ensure you have the necessary dependencies installed, including Claude, Cursor, Gemini, and Codex, and that your Python version is compatible with spec-kitty
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Key files
AGENTS.md
commitlint.config.cjs
package.json
README.md
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acceptance-jvm/
contracts/
docs/
kitty-ops/
kitty-specs/
packs/
research/
research-outputs/
scripts/
services/
src/
tests/
.all-contributorsrc
.claudeignore
.gitattributes
.gitignore
.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc
.python-version
AGENTS.md
ascii-art.txt
CHANGELOG.md
CLAUDE.md
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Details
Creator
Priivacy-ai
Language
Python
Category
automation
Published
10/9/2025

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