Spec Kit 0.8.0: Composition Strategies & Copilot Skills

TL;DR

• Template composition strategies (prepend, append, wrap) for flexible scaffolding
• Copilot integration now supports skills-based scaffolding via --integration-options="--skills"
• Force flag now overwrites shared infra files during init and upgrade

New

• Composition strategies — prepend, append, and wrap modes for templates, commands, and scripts give you fine-grained control over how presets layer into your project
• Copilot skills scaffolding — pass --integration-options="--skills" to enable skills-based project generation, building on recent Copilot CLI improvements
• Memory MD community extension — new extension added to the ecosystem for enhanced documentation workflows
• pipx installation option — alternative to uv for Python-based installs

Fixed

• --force flag now correctly overwrites shared infrastructure files during init and upgrade operations

Updated

• version-guard bumped to v1.2.0

Update via: uv tool install specify-cli --from git+https://github.com/github/spec-kit.git@v0.8.0

Source: Spec Kit