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title: "Idea so stupid it could be smart: a spec manager? specman?"
date: 2026-05-12
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Idea so stupid it could be smart: a spec manager? specman?

People maintain plain language instead of code. Implementation details strictly prohibited, only high level design and ideas

MVP would also be relatively easy to implement:
- Gather list of most popular 10k npm packages
- Scrape corresponding deepwiki repo pages (sorry cognition)
- Use heuristics to get rid of implementation details, leaving you just with pure high level spec
- “specman add coolpackage” then fetches corresponding spec automatically, and triggers the local coding agent to implement that
- could leave versioning out for MVP — how often does the idea behind a package change anyway

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