Specify Work

Hand off work without starting over.

Specify keeps your task, decisions, and approved sources together, so every agent can pick up the same job.

Create workspace
One job ·two agent toolslive sequence
Claude Code
PromptUser → Claude Code
Pick up the checkout refactor. Finish the tax edge cases we parked last week.
MCP exchangeready
Specify Workawaiting request
Governed contextCheckout refactor

Waiting for a scoped request.

A request begins inside the agent tool already open.

See one task move from brief to approved result.

CHAPTER 01

Define the task

Set the owner, next action, and evidence that defines done.

Launch narrativeWork record · currentowned
  • SourceLaunch workspace
  • ActorLaunch lead / human
  • ScopeLaunch narrative
  • ConsequenceClaude Code receives a task with a named owner

See the work, the context, and the consequence in one history.

Outcome named

Launch narrative

Actor
Launch lead
Work
Launch narrative
Evidence
Owner + next action
Start a work record

The next agent starts where the last one stopped.

The task carries its brief, decisions, and approved result. No recap required.

See how it works

Create the first handoff.

Start with one task. The next agent gets the same approved brief.

  1. 01Name outcome
  2. 02Approve context
  3. 03Open Work
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