Public reference

Owner

CoreStory Product

Last reviewed

2026-10-23

Status

Active

Canonical URL

https://llms.corestory.ai/definitions/sdd

Source basis

CORESTORY-STRATEGIC-DIRECTION.md; CORESTORY-KNOWLEDGE-TOPOLOGY.md

SDD (Spec-Driven Development)

Definition

Spec-Driven Development is the discipline CoreStory extends into Spec-Driven Operations: specs drive workflows, workflows drive infrastructure/runtime orchestration, agents execute against governed context, and operational state feeds back into the semantic layer.

Key properties

• Bounded knowledge domain: audience = product, engineering, AI agents, implementation workflows
• Contains: specs, workflow semantics, execution contracts, implementation lifecycle, validation semantics
• Classification: hybrid public/internal
• Extends beyond classic SDD toward operations: infra/runtime orchestration driven by specs

Related terms

• spec
• code intelligence
• corestory