Quoin

quoin is a bundle of Quire modules, agent skills, and workflows for authoring ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148-aligned software specifications and other technical documents. It includes prepackaged modules for the spec vocabulary and ideation/authoring/review/planning workflows agents need to write and validate specs directly as Markdown.

quoin is built on the Quire document standard and validation engine by Agent-IX.

Why: AI agents write code fast but drift from vague intent. Quoin makes the spec the source of truth — your agent authors a validated, traceable spec first, then plans and builds against it.

How

In Claude Code, Codex, or the coding agent of your choice:

1. Ideate & Specify

Ideate, then pass your idea to /specify. A specification containing user stories, functional requirements, stakeholder requirements, non-functional requirements, and other artifacts will be created.

> /specify an electron app for tracking spice production

2. Spec Review

Use /spec-review for agent-assisted review. Multiple analysis tasks will run in parallel and output Reviews with Findings and suggested fixes.

> /spec-review review the specs for the spice production tracker.

3. Convert to plans

Build the test traceability matrix and plan. These skills will break the work down into a plan with multiple tasks.

> /spec-matrix /spec-to-plan prep the spice tracking app for coding

4. Implement!

Call /implement-plan to trigger your coding agent to begin work on the plan.

> /implement-plan build the spice tracking app

5. Gap review

/gap-analysis validates that the UserStory and Functional Requirements are implemented and tested using the traceability matrix as the guide. /gap-analysis will optionally perform a semantic comparison of spec, code, and tests to ensure the plan is faithfully implemented.

> /gap-analysis

What's included

The default module set defines the spec archetypes and domain-object vocabulary.

Artifact archetypes — the document types you author:

Domain objects — prefab templates for common objects

Agent Skills

• specify — create or edit spec files using catalog authoring packs + Quire validation
• spec-review — review specification for quality, consistency, and completeness
• spec-matrix — build/maintain the requirements Test Matrix at 100% coverage
• spec-to-plan — convert StR/FR/NFR into a TDD project plan
• spec-ideation — loose, exploratory drafting before formal authoring
• spec-app-review / spec-object-review — application-spec and domain-object audits
• Analysis lenses — focused review passes over a spec:
  • spec-integrity-analysis — completeness, consistency, and atomicity quality gates
  • spec-scope-boundary-analysis — system boundaries and responsibility allocation
  • spec-dependency-analysis — separates enablement work from feature work
  • spec-evidence-analysis — verification methods and evidence artifacts per requirement
  • spec-failure-domain-analysis — unstated failure modes, identity confusion, edge cases
  • spec-risk-complexity-analysis — technical risk and volatility before tasking
  • spec-security-analysis — applicable security standards and compliance traceability

Install

Installing quoin is two steps: the CLI (from public npm) and a plugin that adds the skills and workflows to your coding agent. The same skill bundle installs into Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, opencode, and GitHub Copilot — pick your agent below. No Anthropic API key is required — your existing agent subscription is used.

1. Install the CLIs (quoin plus ix-flow, which runs the workflow lifecycle commands):

npm install -g @agent-ix/quoin@latest @agent-ix/ix-flow@latest

2. Add the plugin to your coding agent:

/plugin marketplace add agent-ix/quoin
/plugin install quoin@quoin

codex plugin marketplace add agent-ix/quoin
codex plugin add quoin

gh skill install agent-ix/quoin --all --scope user --agent opencode

copilot plugin marketplace add agent-ix/quoin
copilot plugin install quoin@quoin

gh skill install agent-ix/quoin --all --scope user --agent github-copilot

Either way, that registers quoin's spec-authoring skills and workflows so you can drive them by asking the agent.

Usage

skills & workflows

The primary way users author specs is by asking an agent, which invokes the bundled skills and workflows.

CLI commands

Inspect the spec vocabulary and manage installed modules:

quoin catalog list
quoin catalog show FR
quoin catalog validate
quoin plugin install path:../spec-objects-business
quoin plugin list

Development

pnpm install
pnpm run build
pnpm test
pnpm run lint

Specification

The technical specification for this library was itself authored with the spec-artifacts-iso module — see spec/spec.md.

Evals

Eval scenarios live in spec/evals.md and run through the shared @agent-ix/cli-agent-evals toolkit. The suite definition is cli-agent-evals.config.mjs; quoin-specific fixtures, module seeding, prompts, and assertions remain under evals/.

Live runs profile a real agent running the skills/workflows and record token, tool, and latency metrics from the available transcript. Unit tests cover the mechanical CLI behavior.

make evals
make evals-all
node ../cli-agent-evals/bin/cli-evals.js run \
  --suite ./cli-agent-evals.config.mjs \
  --canary \
  --agent claude \
  --model sonnet

Agent plugin setup for authoring/running evals from an agent:

claude plugin marketplace add agent-ix/cli-agent-evals
claude plugin install cli-agent-evals

codex plugin marketplace add agent-ix/cli-agent-evals
codex plugin add cli-agent-evals

gh skill install agent-ix/cli-agent-evals --all --scope user --agent opencode
gh skill install agent-ix/cli-agent-evals --all --scope user --agent github-copilot

Minimal integration pattern:

import { defineSuite } from "../cli-agent-evals/dist/index.js";
import { SCENARIOS } from "./evals/scenarios/index.mjs";

export default defineSuite({
  name: "quoin",
  rootDir: import.meta.dirname,
  scenarios: SCENARIOS,
});

About

quoin is part of the Agent-IX ecosystem built on these core libraries:

• quire-cli, the static-binary CLI wrapping the Quire engine
• ix-cli-core, the generic CLI framework for Agent IX.