The Future is Agentic Spec-Driven Development

Living Spec gives engineers and product teams the context they need throughout development — the spec as a shared context layer for the way you build now.

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Shipping faster than ever — and losing the context just as fast?

AI and agents now write code faster than any team can capture why. That intent lives in the spec — and the moment it drifts from what you are actually building, everyone is guessing again.

Living Spec keeps the spec and the work in sync. Powerful collaboration, full version history, and bi-directional integrations turn a living document into the shared context layer your team and your agents build from.

Dylan Schiemann & Nemanja Tosic, co-founders

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One spec, always in sync with what you ship.

From first idea to production.

Restructure and evolve your spec as the product grows while keeping a complete record of every decision. Living Spec’s version history lets you travel back to any point in your product’s evolution and see exactly what changed and why.

Specs don’t just store information—they let you reshape how it’s organized the moment your understanding changes, so the document always reflects reality.

Viewing tasks and documents inside the spec’s context gives anyone—a teammate or an agent—a clear overview of a project, or a specific detail in seconds. The app’s contextual sidebars surface everything about the selected page, file, task, or document.

Starting something new? Clone a spec built for a common use case in one click, browse open specs created by the community, or simply duplicate one of your own.

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Shared context for your whole team—and your agents.

Lost context is the number one cause of rework. When the spec drifts from what’s actually being built, everyone—and every tool—starts guessing, and that costs time, energy, and money.

Keep humans and tools working from one source of truth. Our bi-directional integrations connect the spec to the platforms your team already uses, so changes flow both ways instead of going stale.

Our flexible notification system eliminates unwanted noise by enabling each individual to choose how and when they wish to get notified. The differential views in the notification section show everyone exactly the before and after of each change.

Living Spec’s flexible and hierarchical tagging system lets everyone define spec or page-wide personal tags while also being able to create document tags available to anyone. Tags are searchable across accounts, making it possible to search all your specs at once.

Made a search you know you’ll need again in the future? Save the parameters so that you can come back to it and see updated results throughout your spec as your specs develop.

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Shapes itself to how you—and your tools—work.

By empowering each team member to shape their use of Living Spec in a way that fits their needs, you allow them to collaborate in the most efficient, intuitive, and creative way possible.

Power users can enjoy efficiency-driven shortcuts. Less tech-oriented users have access to a simple and intuitive interface.

Our snippets feature lets you save reusable text patterns. Anyone in your team can then create new data entries without unnecessary typing, while easily keeping a consistent format throughout your entire spec.

Do you have multiple work emails all related to the same business? Fuse your various email accounts using aliases so that they all point to the same Living Spec profile. Are you involved in multiple businesses, each with separate emails? Then add accounts to your Living Spec profile to have them each act as an independent user seamlessly without the need to switch accounts or browsers.

Put Living Spec’s integrated AI to work grounded in your spec’s context—completing thoughts, transcribing ideas as you dictate them, and turning recordings into text.

Have a question while you work? Chat with your spec-integrated assistant to get answers drawn from your own context, without leaving the app.

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