SPECTRE is a slash command based workflow for Claude Code designed to help you do ONE THING more, faster, and with higher quality. The workflow covers the complete software development lifecycle - from scoping a feature, finalizing user flows, writing the technical design, generating tasks, executing the tasks, code review, validating the work, cleaning up and testing the work, and finally generating documentation as Skills your agent auto-loads when relevant.

SPECTRE's core features include slash commands like /spectre:scope for interactive feature scoping, /spectre:plan for research and implementation planning, /spectre:execute for wave-based parallel execution with code review, /spectre:clean for code cleanup and quality gates, /spectre:test for risk-aware test coverage, /spectre:rebase for safe rebase with conflict handling, and /spectre:evaluate for architecture review and knowledge capture. The system also includes session memory management with /spectre:handoff for saving session state and /spectre:forget for clearing memory.

The workflow operates on the principle that ambiguity is death for AI coding agents, requiring specificity through structured workflows that generate canonical documents. SPECTRE dispatches specialized subagents including @spectre:dev for implementation, @spectre:analyst for understanding code, @spectre:finder for locating code, @spectre:patterns for finding reusable patterns, @spectre:web-research for web research, @spectre:tester for test automation, and @spectre:reviewer for independent code review.

SPECTRE helps users get higher quality and more consistent results from coding agents while they work autonomously for much longer periods. The system has been tested on brand new codebases and codebases with hundreds of thousands of lines of code, building websites, React Native apps, native desktop apps, and personal software. It enables developers to 10-100x their typical output through repeatable, structured workflows.

The target users are product builders and developers working with AI coding agents, particularly those using Claude Code. SPECTRE integrates with Claude Code as a plugin and maintains session memory across conversations through its handoff system. The workflow generates canonical documents stored in docs/tasks/{topic}/specs directory and maintains knowledge capture through skills that auto-load in future sessions.