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SpecMine: A Large-Scale Corpus of Spec-Driven Development Artifacts

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 25, 2026 · UTC

Spec-Driven Development (SDD) is a fast-emerging practice in which a structured natural-language specification, written by a developer, or (more often) drafted by an AI tool and then curated by the developer, drives an AI coding agent's implementation. A wave of tooling (GitHub Spec Kit [3], OpenSpec [4], AWS Kiro [5], and dozens of others) has appeared since 2025, yet the artifacts these tools produce have never been studied at scale. We present SpecMine, a corpus that captures SDD in public GitHub repositories through two censuses: a broad census of spec.md/specs.md files covering most tools

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