From idea to tested code.
Every step, guided.
Specorator is your guided development companion — structured workflow, AI assistance, and your knowledge in one place. Express what you want to build and let Specorator keep you moving, every stage of the way.
What is Specorator?
Specorator is a guided development companion that takes you through the entire lifecycle of a software feature — from the first conversation about an idea, all the way to a retrospective. It gives you a cockpit view of your active work, an AI assistant that knows your context, and a structured workflow that keeps everyone aligned — whether you're a solo developer, a product manager, or a founder who doesn't write code.
All your work stays as plain files — owned by you, readable without the tool, and never locked into a cloud service. Specorator is the guide, not the gatekeeper.
Guided workflow
12 stages from first idea to retrospective. Always know where you are, what comes next, and what you need to produce before you move on.
AI that knows your work — in development
An always-visible AI assistant will understand your persona, your current stage, and the active work in your knowledge base — before you type a word. Ask questions, get drafts, request reviews — in plain language. (Coming in v1 — see roadmap.)
You stay in control
Every AI suggestion is a proposal. You review, edit, accept, or reject it before anything is written. Your files are never modified without your explicit say-so.
Built for everyone in the room
Good software comes from good collaboration between people who think differently. Specorator is designed for all of them — not just the ones who write code.
Founders and PMs
Turn a vague idea into a clear, structured brief. Describe what you want in plain language — Specorator helps you get to requirements, decisions, and a solid spec.
Engineers and architects
Go from spec to tasks to implementation with clear traceability. Quality gates catch gaps before they become bugs. Retrospectives make the next feature better.
Designers and analysts
Design decisions and requirements live alongside the code artifacts. Everything is connected — no context lost in a separate tool.
Try without installing
The standalone UI runs fully in your browser — no account, no setup, no data sent anywhere. Create a feature and walk through the workflow right now.
The full lifecycle, from first thought to lessons learned
Most tools support a fraction of the journey. Specorator covers all 12 stages — with AI assistance at every one. The further you go, the more context your AI assistant has to give you useful, grounded answers.
AI assistance — in active development
⚡ In development for v1The AI assistant will sit in a permanent side panel alongside your work. It will know who you are, what you're working on, and where you are in the workflow — before you type a single word. Rather than asking you to describe your project every time, Specorator will build that context silently. You just say what you need.
The assistant will be able to read your notes, understand your decisions, and propose new content using your existing knowledge as context — all through the same files you already work with.
Proposals, not surprises. Every file the AI wants to create or change will appear as a review card first. You read it, adjust if needed, and accept — or reject it entirely. Nothing will be written until you decide.
Try it live in your browser
The standalone UI stores everything in your browser's local storage — no account, no sign-up, nothing sent anywhere. Create a feature, walk through the stages, and see the workflow in action.
All data stays in your browser. Nothing is uploaded or stored externally.
What's available now, and what's coming
Guided workflow + AI assistant
- Onboarding — set up your workspace and introduce yourself to your AI assistant
- Guided installation of the workflow template into your knowledge base
- AI chat assistant in a permanent side panel — context-aware from the start
- Workflow navigator — active feature, current stage, next actions
- Artifact creation from the UI
- Standalone browser demo (try without installing anything)
Fully orchestrated agentic teams
- Purpose-built agent roles: PM, architect, engineer, QA, writer
- Agents run full workflow sessions end-to-end
- Live execution state streamed to the panel
- All agent outputs remain reviewable proposals
- Powered by agentonomous
Powered by Obsidian
Specorator runs as a plugin inside Obsidian — chosen as its foundation for its powerful local knowledge graph, rich plugin ecosystem, and deep file-system integration. Obsidian is the engine; Specorator is the product that runs on it.
Because of this foundation, your entire knowledge base — notes, diagrams, structured data, linked documents — becomes part of the context your AI assistant reasons over. The AI doesn't just read your active file; it can navigate your whole graph of connected knowledge to give you grounded, relevant answers.
All files are plain Markdown in a folder you own. They're readable in any text editor, version-controllable with git, and useful long after this tool is gone.
Get started
Specorator is not yet listed in the Obsidian Community Plugin directory. Use the manual sideload method to install it today.
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Download the latest release from the
GitHub Releases page:
manifest.json,main.js, andstyles.css. -
Create the folder
{vault}/.obsidian/plugins/specorator/inside your Obsidian vault. - Copy the three downloaded files into that folder.
- In Obsidian, open Settings → Community plugins, disable Safe Mode if prompted, then enable Specorator from the list.
- Open the Specorator panel from the left sidebar ribbon icon, or via Command palette → Specorator: Open panel. This is your main cockpit — create features, advance stages, and navigate your workflow from here. Onboarding (auto-opens on first install) is in active development — see the roadmap above.
For the full local development setup — including running the standalone UI in a browser and building a dev build — see docs/local-development.md.
Related repositories
Specorator is part of a focused ecosystem of connected tools.
Contribute or follow development
Issues and pull requests are welcome. Development follows an intake-first workflow: open a Requirement or Design intake issue before implementing.
- GitHub repository — source code, issues, and pull requests
- #1 — v1 alpha planning — first increment scope and acceptance criteria
- #23 — v2.0 planning — orchestrated agentic teams direction
- #47 — Roadmap progress tracker — phase-by-phase checklist
- Local development guide — prerequisites, commands, and sideloading
- Contributing guide — labels, milestones, branch naming, and merge policy