specy-road 0.1.3

Roadmap-first coordination kit for humans and AI agents

specy-road

One roadmap for the whole team—so product, engineering, and coding agents share the same plan.

What it is

specy-road is a toolkit for keeping priorities, written specs, and implementation work aligned. It fits teams that use AI-assisted editors (for example Claude or Cursor) together with product-led planning. Your team maintains a roadmap in the repository: what matters, in what order, and what depends on what. A small command-line tool checks that the roadmap is consistent, publishes a readable index, and can build briefs—focused packets of context for a single task—so nobody has to reread the entire project to know what to do next.

Who it’s for

• Product managers and delivery leads — A single place for direction, sequencing, and visibility into what is active or blocked.
• Developers and coding agents — Task-sized context, shared contracts, and clear ownership areas so work stays parallel without stepping on the same files.

Why teams use it

• Single source of truth — Less drift between tickets, docs, and “what we agreed.” The roadmap and planning sheets stay tied together; cross-cutting rules live in shared/ where they belong.
• Right-sized context — specy-road brief pulls the relevant planning sheets and contracts for one roadmap item instead of the whole repository story.
• Safer parallel work — Stable IDs, touch zones, and roadmap/registry.yaml show who is working on what before files collide.
• Your tools, your workflow — The kit is about roadmaps and specs, not a particular IDE or agent ritual. See docs/philosophy-and-scope.md.

Getting started

Install the CLI (Python 3.11+) and git, then follow Install and docs/install-and-usage.md to pip install specy-road and run specy-road init project in an application repo. After that, everyday use boils down to:

For PMs

1. Prefer specy-road gui for the dashboard, or edit roadmap/ and planning/ directly (docs/pm-gui.md).
2. Run specy-road export and specy-road validate before you commit.

More detail: docs/pm-workflow.md. Optional LLM Review in the Gantt UI: docs/pm-llm-review.md.

For developers

1. Pick up work with specy-road do-next-available-task, or specy-road brief <NODE_ID> for a specific node (docs/dev-workflow.md).
2. Finish with specy-road finish-this-task, then land changes with your team’s PR process (docs/git-workflow.md).

Install

Requires Python 3.11+ and git (with a configured remote — origin by default).

pip install specy-road
# optional extras:
#   pip install "specy-road[gui-next]"  # PM Gantt UI deps
#   pip install "specy-road[review]"    # LLM review (`specy-road review-node`)

The full install + everyday usage guide is at docs/install-and-usage.md. Building from source is documented in docs/contributor-guide.md.

Consumer init project, roadmap/git-workflow.yaml, optional specyrd stubs, and bootstrap prompts are covered in docs/install-and-usage.md. Toolkit contributors (tests, pre-commit, releases): docs/contributor-guide.md.

More on how to work with it

Typical path in an application repository after specy-road init project: roadmap and planning for direction and detail; validation, export, and briefs for engineering and agents; registry and branches for safe parallel work. Maintainers working on this toolkit follow AGENTS.md, docs/toolkit-development.md, and docs/contributor-guide.md.

1. Bootstrap — specy-road init project (once per repo) creates constitution/, roadmap/, shared/, constraints/, schemas/, planning/, work/, and AGENTS.md.
2. Author — Edit JSON chunks under roadmap/ (listed in manifest.json). See docs/roadmap-authoring.md.
3. Validate — specy-road validate (use --repo-root if not in the project root).
4. Publish views — specy-road export regenerates roadmap.md from the merged graph.
5. Focus a task — specy-road brief <NODE_ID> -o work/brief-<NODE_ID>.md, then implement against shared/ contracts cited for that node.
6. Branches — Follow docs/git-workflow.md: register in roadmap/registry.yaml on the integration branch from roadmap/git-workflow.yaml, then feature/rm-<codename> (or use specy-road do-next-available-task).
7. Optional IDE commands — specyrd installs stubs that invoke the CLI; see docs/contributor-guide.md#ide-command-stubs-specyrd.

Where to read next

Document	Purpose
docs/install-and-usage.md	Install from source, init project, everyday PM/dev/GUI flows
docs/contributor-guide.md	Toolkit contributors: CI parity, pre-commit, releases, specyrd
docs/philosophy-and-scope.md	What the kit promises and what it leaves to you
docs/architecture.md	End-to-end flow: manifest, chunks, validation, briefs
docs/roadmap-authoring.md	JSON chunks, manifest order, generated roadmap.md
docs/git-workflow.md	Consumer workflow contract (git-workflow.yaml), branches, registry, merge-back
docs/toolkit-development.md	Short maintainer notes (this repo vs consumer contract)
docs/optional-ai-tooling-patterns.md	Optional patterns (CLAUDE.md, Cursor rules, MCP) for app repos
suggested_prompts/	Adoption prompts (clone this repo; not shipped on PyPI)
AGENTS.md	Short entry for coding agents

Related material

• Spec-Kit — inspiration only
• docs/optional-ai-tooling-patterns.md — optional AI tooling ideas for application repositories

Contributing to this repository

To participate in development of the specy-road toolkit itself, contact the repository owner. Technical setup: docs/contributor-guide.md.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.