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Writing from the team behind Spec Kitty. Spec Kitty is the decision layer for autonomous software delivery: your AI agents write the code, and your people make the calls. Each person curates what they know in Brain Kitty; Team Kitty combines everyone's and hands it to your coding agents through Build Kitty, the free Spec Kitty CLI. Posts cover specs, review, team rules and how teams work with agents.
Spec Kitty Creator Robert Douglass to Present “Spec Driven Development with Spec Kitty” at FrOSCon 2026
Robert Douglass presented spec-driven development at FrOSCon 2026 as a structured approach for safely adopting AI coding agents across legacy systems, complex codebases, and regulated environments.
Read the postSpec Kitty Releases spec-kitty-analyzer v0.3.0
spec-kitty-analyzer v0.3.0 adds build provenance, anomaly triage, governance activity reporting, and release-note enforcement to improve visibility into AI-assisted development.
Read the postSpec Kitty Co-Founders Robert Douglass and Emanuel Rose Attend Ai4 2026
Robert Douglass and Emanuel Rose attended Ai4 2026 in Las Vegas to talk with engineering teams about how they govern the work of AI coding agents.
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Spec Kit Alternatives: Why I Built Spec Kitty Instead of Stopping at GitHub's Toolkit
An honest comparison of GitHub Spec Kit and Spec Kitty, and why team-scale AI development needs reviewed specs, parallel agent coordination, and decisions and reviews saved in your repo.
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The Future of AI Development Teams Is Spec-Driven
The best AI development teams won't be the ones with the fastest models. They'll be the ones with the clearest intent, the best memory, and the tightest governance.
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The Next Step in the Evolution of SDD
The next generation after agent skills is your team's written rules for agents, kept in Brain Kitty and loaded at every agent step, so agents work like members of the same organization.
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What It Looks Like to Build with Spec Kitty
From intent to spec to reviewable work packages to lasting project memory—a concrete, six-step walkthrough of what a Spec Kitty mission looks like start to finish.
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Governance Isn't a Feature: Why AI Coding Needs Reviewable Workflows
Prompt engineering can polish a single output, but it can't replace decision trails, review paths, and audit trails. Here's what a genuinely reviewable AI workflow requires.
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How Teams Lose Context in AI Development
Context doesn't vanish all at once. It leaks through scattered tickets, undocumented decisions, and conversations that never make it into a durable record. Here's a six-step guide to keeping it intact.
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From Prompts to Systems: Why AI Development Needs Structure
The first wave of AI coding was about clever prompts. The next wave is about structured systems that give AI agents durable context, planning, and governance.
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What Spec-Driven Development Actually Means for AI Teams
Spec-driven development is not about paperwork. It's the shift from vague prompts to durable intent—the foundation that makes AI-assisted coding reliable at team scale.
Read the postSpec Kitty Launches Agent Analyzer to Help Developers Measure and Reduce AI Coding Waste
Agent Analyzer is a local-first tool that analyzes real coding activity across popular AI development tools, generating benchmark-backed recommendations and personalized optimization plugins to reduce AI coding waste.
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What Is My Dev Team Building? Why CTOs Need Visibility Into AI-Assisted Development
AI moves fast — but without structured visibility and governance, CTOs lose sight of what's being built and why. Here's a six-step framework for staying informed without micromanaging.
Read the postSpec Kitty Launches to Bring Structure, Memory, and Governance to AI Development Teams
Spec Kitty is live. Here's what it does, why we built it, and how it helps engineering teams move from scattered AI prompts to governed, spec-driven workflows.
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Read the Spec: Lock Intent Before you Implement
Why spec-driven development is not about paperwork, but about locking product intent before coding agents start implementation.
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5 Signs Your Team Is Ready for Spec-Driven AI Development
If your team is re-explaining architecture rules to AI agents, arguing about prompt quality, or losing decisions to private chats—you're ready for a structured approach.
Read the postSpec Kitty vs GitHub Spec Kit vs AWS Kiro vs GSD: AI Development Tools for Teams
A corrected competitive matrix for teams comparing spec-driven AI development tools, with Spec Kitty positioned around reviewed specs, recorded decisions, and Team Kitty (early access).
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AI Legacy Code Modernization in 2026: Spec Kitty vs Moderne, AWS Transform, and Gemini Code Assist
A legacy code modernization matrix for teams comparing deterministic recipe engines, AWS modernization paths, coding assistants, and Spec Kitty governance.
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Why I Built Spec Kitty
Why agentic coding needs more than prompts: intent, memory, governance, and fresh-context review for serious software teams.
Read the postSpec Kitty Expands Platform, Leadership, and Marketing Partnership
Spec Kitty announces platform innovation led by Robert Douglass, the appointment of Jen Krieger as COO, and an ongoing marketing partnership with Strategic eMarketing.
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The Hidden Cost of "Just Use ChatGPT" in Engineering Teams
ChatGPT boosts individual output but creates invisible costs for teams: lost context, prompt drift, and shadow work that never makes it into your system of record.
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Why Most AI Dev Tools Fail After the First Week
Most AI development tools impress in week one and stall in week two. Here's why context loss is the real culprit—and how structured systems fix it.
Read the postStrategic eMarketing Serves as Dedicated Marketing Partner for Spec Kitty
Strategic eMarketing announces its role as the embedded marketing function for Spec Kitty, driving awareness, engagement, and adoption among development teams and enterprise organizations.
Read the postSpec Kitty Introduces Spec-Driven Development Platform
Spec Kitty announces its spec-driven development platform with an intent-to-merge workflow — Specify, Plan, Task, Implement, Review, Accept, and Merge — to improve coordination in AI-assisted software delivery.
Read the postSpec Kitty Appoints Jen Krieger as Chief Operating Officer
Spec Kitty announces the appointment of Jen Krieger as COO, bringing 30 years of engineering operations experience including VP Engineering Operations and Chief of Staff to the CTO at GitHub.
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