#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
pub enum Kind {
Bool,
Int(i64, i64),
Num(f64, f64),
Str,
Choice(&'static [&'static str]),
Duration,
Argv,
ArgvList,
StrList,
}
impl Kind {
pub(super) const fn name(self) -> &'static str {
match self {
Self::Bool => "bool",
Self::Int(..) => "integer",
Self::Num(..) => "number",
Self::Str => "string",
Self::Choice(_) => "choice",
Self::Duration => "duration",
Self::Argv => "argv",
Self::ArgvList => "argv_list",
Self::StrList => "string_list",
}
}
}
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
pub struct Key {
pub key: &'static str,
pub kind: Kind,
pub default: Option<&'static str>,
pub required: bool,
pub about: &'static str,
}
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
pub struct Section {
pub name: &'static str,
pub title: &'static str,
pub about: &'static str,
pub named: bool,
pub keys: &'static [Key],
}
pub(super) const fn k(
key: &'static str,
kind: Kind,
default: Option<&'static str>,
about: &'static str,
) -> Key {
Key {
key,
kind,
default,
required: false,
about,
}
}
pub(super) const fn req(key: &'static str, kind: Kind, about: &'static str) -> Key {
Key {
key,
kind,
default: None,
required: true,
about,
}
}
pub(super) const FORMATS: &[&str] = &[
speccoder_core::spec::FormatKind::ALL[0].name(),
speccoder_core::spec::FormatKind::ALL[1].name(),
speccoder_core::spec::FormatKind::ALL[2].name(),
];
pub(super) const PRICE: Kind = Kind::Num(0.0, 100_000.0);
pub const CATALOGUE: &[Section] = &[
Section {
name: "model",
title: "Model",
about: "The model that makes the attempts. The key comes from ANTHROPIC_API_KEY or OPENAI_API_KEY, Bedrock's credentials from AWS — never from this file.",
named: false,
keys: &[
req(
"provider",
Kind::Choice(&["anthropic", "openai", "openai-compatible", "bedrock"]),
"Who serves the model; openai-compatible covers Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp, LM Studio and others; bedrock is Amazon Bedrock, credentials from AWS",
),
req(
"model",
Kind::Str,
"The model, for example claude-sonnet-5-5",
),
k(
"region",
Kind::Str,
None,
"Bedrock only: the AWS region calls go to (the journal records it)",
),
k(
"reasoning_summary",
Kind::Bool,
Some("true"),
"Show the model's summary of its reasoning (a claim, not evidence)",
),
k(
"max_output_tokens",
Kind::Int(1, 1_000_000),
Some("4096"),
"Output tokens per model turn",
),
k(
"max_run_tokens",
Kind::Int(1, 100_000_000),
Some("500000"),
"Tokens per attempt",
),
k(
"cache_ttl",
Kind::Choice(&["5m", "1h"]),
Some("\"5m\""),
"Anthropic's prompt-cache lifetime",
),
k(
"base_url",
Kind::Str,
None,
"The server, required for openai-compatible (e.g. http://localhost:11434/v1)",
),
k(
"api_key_env",
Kind::Str,
None,
"openai-compatible only: the variable holding the server's key",
),
k(
"structured",
Kind::Choice(&["native", "tool"]),
Some("\"native\""),
"openai-compatible only: native structured output, or a forced tool call",
),
k(
"price_input_per_mtok",
PRICE,
None,
"USD per million input tokens, for cost reports",
),
k(
"price_output_per_mtok",
PRICE,
None,
"USD per million output tokens",
),
k(
"price_cache_read_per_mtok",
PRICE,
None,
"USD per million tokens read from the cache",
),
k(
"price_cache_write_per_mtok",
PRICE,
None,
"USD per million tokens written to the five-minute cache",
),
k(
"price_cache_write_1h_per_mtok",
PRICE,
None,
"USD per million tokens written to the one-hour cache",
),
],
},
Section {
name: "checks",
title: "Checks",
about: "The commands that decide whether nothing regressed. Each check's command up to its first option is also something the model may run.",
named: true,
keys: &[
req(
"argv",
Kind::Argv,
"Program and arguments, run without a shell",
),
k(
"cwd",
Kind::Str,
Some("\".\""),
"Working directory, relative to the project root",
),
k(
"when_exists",
Kind::Str,
None,
"Run only if this path exists; otherwise skipped, never passed",
),
k(
"tier",
Kind::Choice(&["fast", "full"]),
Some("\"fast\""),
"fast judges every task; full runs once after the feature's last task",
),
k(
"timeout_secs",
Kind::Int(1, 86_400),
Some("600"),
"Deadline for the whole process group",
),
k(
"junit",
Kind::Str,
None,
"A JUnit XML report the check writes, for per-test results",
),
k(
"list",
Kind::Argv,
None,
"A command that lists the tests the check would run (one test id or file path per line); speccoder runs it when it cannot otherwise tell",
),
],
},
Section {
name: "budget",
title: "Budget",
about: "How much an attempt may do, how often a task is tried, and what a run may spend.",
named: false,
keys: &[
k(
"max_turns",
Kind::Int(1, 1000),
Some("30"),
"Model turns per attempt",
),
k(
"max_tool_calls",
Kind::Int(1, 10_000),
Some("100"),
"Tool calls per attempt",
),
k(
"max_attempts",
Kind::Int(1, 20),
Some("2"),
"Attempts per task run; a failed verdict is retried with the verifier's facts",
),
k(
"best_of",
Kind::Int(1, 10),
Some("1"),
"Independent samples per task, the best by evidence kept",
),
k(
"cap",
Kind::Str,
None,
"What a run may spend: tokens (\"2M\", \"500k\") or dollars (\"$5\", at [model]'s prices); `run --cap` overrides it",
),
],
},
Section {
name: "commands",
title: "Commands",
about: "What the model may run without asking, besides the checks. `allow` is exact; a prefix in `allow_prefix` runs whatever follows it, so it is saved only from a preview of what it would newly allow.",
named: false,
keys: &[
k(
"allow",
Kind::ArgvList,
Some("[]"),
"Exact commands that run without asking, e.g. [\"cargo\", \"check\"]; nothing after them",
),
k(
"allow_prefix",
Kind::ArgvList,
Some("[]"),
"Command prefixes (two elements or more) whose every extension runs without asking; saved only from the coverage preview",
),
],
},
Section {
name: "approvals",
title: "Approvals",
about: "What runs without asking, how long a call waits for a person, and how often a run may ask.",
named: false,
keys: &[
k(
"contained",
Kind::Choice(&["allow", "ask"]),
Some("\"allow\""),
"Commands the OS sandbox confines (writes only here, no network beyond loopback) run without asking; \"ask\" asks for each",
),
k(
"wait",
Kind::Duration,
Some("\"7d\""),
"How long a call waits before it is denied as expired (m, h or d)",
),
k(
"budget",
Kind::Int(0, 100),
Some("12"),
"Prompts a run shows you; further calls wait together in Needs You",
),
],
},
Section {
name: "tests",
title: "Tests",
about: "What the model may do with tests that existed before an attempt.",
named: false,
keys: &[k(
"frozen",
Kind::Choice(&["ask", "additions"]),
Some("\"ask\""),
"ask before any change, or allow new lines without asking",
)],
},
Section {
name: "spec",
title: "Spec format",
about: "Which spec format the project uses; detected when unset.",
named: false,
keys: &[k(
"format",
Kind::Choice(FORMATS),
None,
"The spec format; --format and SPECCODER_FORMAT override it",
)],
},
Section {
name: "context",
title: "Instructions",
about: "The repository's instructions for agents, given to every attempt.",
named: false,
keys: &[k(
"instructions",
Kind::StrList,
Some("[\"AGENTS.md\"]"),
"File names read per directory, the first that exists; none to read none",
)],
},
Section {
name: "acceptance",
title: "Acceptance",
about: "Tests derived from the spec, and how strong they are.",
named: false,
keys: &[
k(
"generate",
Kind::Bool,
Some("true"),
"Derive acceptance tests from the spec: a story's oracle before its first code task, a convergence gap's own test",
),
k(
"held_out",
Kind::Bool,
Some("true"),
"Also write held-out tests the implementer never sees; a story's last code task needs them to pass",
),
k(
"strength",
Kind::Bool,
Some("true"),
"Measure the acceptance strength of every verified task",
),
k(
"min_strength",
Kind::Num(0.0, 1.0),
None,
"Below it the set is strengthened once, then the task stops for you",
),
k(
"near_miss",
Kind::Int(0, 3),
Some("2"),
"Wrong variants to try",
),
k(
"permitted",
Kind::Int(0, 2),
Some("1"),
"Spec-permitted alternatives to try; 0 turns the over-strict check off",
),
k(
"strength_timeout_secs",
Kind::Int(1, 86_400),
Some("900"),
"Budget for the whole strength measurement",
),
],
},
Section {
name: "bug",
title: "Bug fixes",
about: "`speccoder bug`: how hard reproduce tries before the bug goes to you as cannot reproduce. A project setting only: a value in your user config is ignored.",
named: false,
keys: &[
k(
"reproduce_tries",
Kind::Int(1, 5),
Some("3"),
"Tries of the reproduction author before cannot reproduce (a rejection counts as one)",
),
k(
"test",
Kind::Argv,
None,
"How one named test (`--test PATH::NAME`) runs, `{file}` and `{name}` filled in; default: the toolchain's own runner",
),
],
},
Section {
name: "ask",
title: "Ask",
about: "The read-only conversation beside every view: its model and its limits.",
named: false,
keys: &[
k(
"model",
Kind::Str,
None,
"Ask's model; [model]'s when unset (same provider)",
),
k(
"max_turn_tokens",
Kind::Int(1_000, 10_000_000),
Some("100000"),
"Tokens one question may use, cache reads apart",
),
k(
"daily_tokens",
Kind::Int(0, 1_000_000_000),
Some("1000000"),
"Tokens Ask may use in a UTC day; runs are never counted",
),
],
},
Section {
name: "ladder",
title: "Promotion",
about: "When a quick change or bug that grew is offered as a spec of its own.",
named: false,
keys: &[k(
"promote_files",
Kind::Int(1, 10_000),
Some("8"),
"More files changed than this offers promotion",
)],
},
Section {
name: "converge",
title: "Convergence",
about: "How often a feature may be brought back to its spec.",
named: false,
keys: &[k(
"max_rounds",
Kind::Int(1, 20),
Some("3"),
"Convergence phases a feature may get",
)],
},
Section {
name: "review",
title: "Spec review",
about: "Whether a run waits for every requirement to be approved, and how tests are written at review.",
named: false,
keys: &[
k(
"required",
Kind::Bool,
Some("false"),
"A run waits until every requirement is approved on its current wording",
),
k(
"oracle_samples",
Kind::Int(1, 2),
Some("2"),
"Independent author calls Write Tests makes; two are compared for ambiguity",
),
],
},
Section {
name: "monitor",
title: "Gaming monitor",
about: "A second model that reviews every passing attempt for gaming.",
named: false,
keys: &[k(
"enabled",
Kind::Bool,
Some("false"),
"Review every passing attempt",
)],
},
Section {
name: "git",
title: "Git",
about: "How passed tasks are recorded.",
named: false,
keys: &[k(
"commit",
Kind::Choice(&["per-task", "none"]),
Some("\"per-task\""),
"Commit each passed task, or leave changes uncommitted",
)],
},
Section {
name: "format",
title: "Formatter",
about: "A formatter run after each attempt; its changes are part of the attempt and audited.",
named: false,
keys: &[k(
"argv",
Kind::Argv,
None,
"The formatter, e.g. [\"cargo\", \"fmt\"]",
)],
},
Section {
name: "sandbox",
title: "Sandbox",
about: "Where commands the model runs may write and connect.",
named: false,
keys: &[
k(
"mode",
Kind::Choice(&["auto", "required", "off"]),
Some("\"auto\""),
"auto sandboxes where the OS can; required refuses to run unsandboxed",
),
k(
"network",
Kind::Choice(&["off", "loopback", "on"]),
Some("\"loopback\""),
"Network for commands; loopback lets local test servers work",
),
k(
"network_allow",
Kind::ArgvList,
Some("[]"),
"Exact commands that get the network, e.g. [\"cargo\", \"fetch\"]",
),
k(
"network_allow_prefix",
Kind::ArgvList,
Some("[]"),
"Prefixes (two elements or more) whose extensions get the network; saved only from the coverage preview",
),
k(
"writable",
Kind::StrList,
Some("[]"),
"Extra writable paths (~ is your home), e.g. ~/.m2",
),
],
},
Section {
name: "worktree",
title: "Worktree",
about: "What a run's worktree gets that git never holds: dependency folders (node_modules, .venv) and git-ignored files such as .env.",
named: false,
keys: &[
k(
"prepare",
Kind::Choice(&["auto", "off"]),
Some("\"auto\""),
"auto installs Node and uv dependencies (locked, offline) before the baseline; off never",
),
k(
"include",
Kind::StrList,
Some("[]"),
"Git-ignored files copied from your checkout, .gitignore patterns, e.g. .env (with .worktreeinclude's); never committed, secret-named values masked",
),
],
},
Section {
name: "attest",
title: "Attestations",
about: "Signed statements of every tick, as git notes.",
named: false,
keys: &[
k(
"enabled",
Kind::Bool,
Some("true"),
"Write the statements on each tick commit",
),
k(
"signer",
Kind::Choice(&["git", "sigstore", "none"]),
Some("\"git\""),
"Your git signing key, keyless sigstore, or unsigned",
),
k(
"sign_at",
Kind::Choice(&["tick", "later"]),
Some("\"tick\""),
"Sign at each tick, or later with speccoder attest sign",
),
k(
"sigstore.identity",
Kind::Str,
None,
"The identity you sign with, suggested to reviewers",
),
k("sigstore.issuer", Kind::Str, None, "Its OIDC issuer"),
],
},
Section {
name: "mutation",
title: "Mutation testing",
about: "Mutants run against the suite after a passing verdict.",
named: false,
keys: &[
req(
"tool",
Kind::Choice(&["cargo-mutants", "command"]),
"cargo-mutants, or command for any tool writing the mutation-testing report",
),
k(
"argv",
Kind::Argv,
None,
"For command: the program; may use {diff}, {out}, {files}, {files_csv}",
),
k("report", Kind::Str, None, "For command: the report file"),
k(
"mode",
Kind::Choice(&["report", "require"]),
Some("\"report\""),
"report records; require fails the verdict when mutants survive",
),
k(
"timeout_secs",
Kind::Int(1, 86_400),
Some("900"),
"Limit for the whole mutation run",
),
k(
"suite",
Kind::Bool,
Some("true"),
"Run mutants against the whole suite; false uses them for strength only",
),
k(
"acceptance_argv",
Kind::Argv,
None,
"For command: runs the mutants against the acceptance tests alone",
),
],
},
Section {
name: "executor",
title: "Executor",
about: "Who makes the attempts: speccoder's own loop, or an external agent over ACP whose calls speccoder decides.",
named: false,
keys: &[
k(
"agent",
Kind::Choice(&["copilot", "opencode", "claude", "codex", "gemini"]),
None,
"GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI, over ACP",
),
k(
"kind",
Kind::Choice(&["native", "acp", "command"]),
None,
"Without an agent: native, any ACP agent (acp) or any command, by argv",
),
k(
"model",
Kind::Str,
None,
"The agent's model, where it offers a choice",
),
k(
"mode",
Kind::Str,
None,
"The agent's own permission mode; unset, speccoder asks for the one that asks first",
),
k(
"timeout_secs",
Kind::Int(1, 86_400),
Some("1800"),
"How long one attempt may take",
),
k(
"argv",
Kind::Argv,
None,
"For acp: the agent's command; for command: the program, which reads the task on stdin",
),
],
},
Section {
name: "mcp",
title: "MCP servers",
about: "Stdio MCP servers started in the worktree for each task; their tools appear as mcp__<server>__<tool>.",
named: true,
keys: &[
req("command", Kind::Argv, "The server's program and arguments"),
k(
"allow",
Kind::StrList,
Some("[]"),
"Tools called without approval",
),
k("deny", Kind::StrList, Some("[]"), "Tools never offered"),
],
},
];