Coding agents can ship code fast. The hard part isn't speed, it's drift: the gap between what you meant and what got built, where rework and late surprises hide.

Spec Kit is an open-source, agent-agnostic toolkit from GitHub that closes that gap. It turns requirements, design, and tasks into structured inputs an agent can actually act on, so the work lands closer to done. And it's not a new methodology. It's the requirements, design, tickets lifecycle you already know, made executable.

We'll walk the Spec Kit workflow end to end, see where its quality gates fit, and talk honestly about what holds up and what's still an open question. You'll leave knowing what Spec Kit is, why it's worth a look, and how to try it on your next project.