Public reference

Owner

CoreStory Product

Last reviewed

2026-10-23

Status

Active

Canonical URL

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

Source basis

architecture/organizational-cognition/CORESTORY-KNOWLEDGE-TOPOLOGY.md

Spec

Definition

A spec is a core entity of the CodeIntelligence runtime layer: a governed, machine-groundable statement of intent that CoreStory retrieves at inference time to bind agent execution to organizational context. Specs are consumed by both the Spec-Driven Development domain (product/engineering/AI agents/implementation workflows) and the CodeIntelligence runtime (spec grounding, dependency reasoning).

Key properties

• Core entity type in Layer 1 — CodeIntelligence Runtime
• Feeds spec grounding + inference-time retrieval
• Distinct from a spec's downstream artifacts: execution contracts, implementation lifecycle, validation semantics (see SDD)

Related terms

• sdd
• code intelligence
• intelligence model