ScopeLoop

Spec-driven development

Close the loop between discovery and delivery.

ScopeLoop turns ideas, notes, and discovery conversations into clear, testable specs — then drives the build. Your team and your AI coding agents always work on the right thing, in the right order, all the way to shipped code.

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ScopeLoop interface

The problem

Discovery happens. Then scope gets lost.

Every product starts with good conversations. But the gap between what people say and what gets built is where projects go sideways.

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Requirements drift

Conversations produce insights. Then scope gets manually translated into tickets — losing context and specificity at every handoff.

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Wrong order, wrong things

Without true dependency ordering, teams build features that block each other — discovering the hard way that step 3 needed step 7 first.

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AI agents fly blind

Your coding agents are only as good as their instructions. Point them at vague tickets and they produce vague code.

How it works

The loop that closes itself.

Five steps. One continuous cycle. Every iteration sharpens scope and accelerates delivery.

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Discover
Sync notes, docs, and transcripts from your tools
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Define
Structure into testable requirements
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Sequence
Order by true dependency
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Build
Your team and AI agents execute in order
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Learn
Refine scope as you ship
↻The loop continues — refine and repeat
Intent Inbox
Google Drive
Q3 stakeholder interviews.docx
Auto-synced · 2h ago
Notion
Product feedback — onboarding
Auto-synced · 5h ago
Transcript
Discovery call · Acme rollout
Uploaded · 1d ago
Email
Fwd: Checkout edge cases
Forwarded · 1d ago
→ 6 draft requirements ready for review

Intent ingestion

Ideas come from everywhere. Nothing gets lost.

Discovery doesn’t live in one app. Connect Google Drive, Notion, or Microsoft 365, forward emails, or drop in meeting transcripts — it all lands in your project’s Intent Inbox, where ScopeLoop turns raw intent into draft requirements ready for your review.

→ Connected sources sync new content automatically — or import just what you want
→ Email forwarding and transcript uploads capture discovery wherever it happens
→ New intent becomes draft requirements, queued for your approval

Structured scope

From discovery to structured, testable requirements.

Capture stakeholder interviews and raw notes, then turn them into clean requirements with clear acceptance criteria. No more ambiguity, no more drift.

→ Clean, testable requirements with acceptance criteria
→ Full specification and version history per requirement
REQ-014Verified
User authentication flow
OAuth2 login supporting Google and GitHub providers with session persistence
Acceptance Criteria
✓ User can sign in with Google OAuth
✓ User can sign in with GitHub OAuth
○ Session persists across browser restarts
M1 · Auth & User Management
3 requirements · Complete
Done
M2 · Data Layer & API
5 requirements · Depends on M1
Active
M3 · Frontend Dashboard
4 requirements · Depends on M2
Queued
M4 · Integrations
3 requirements · Depends on M2, M3
Queued

Build plans

Build order equals dependency order.

Requirements are organized in true build order — milestone sequence follows dependency sequence. Teams build things in the order that actually makes sense, not the order someone guessed.

Living specs

Living specs that move through a real workflow.

Each requirement carries a full specification, version history, and acceptance criteria — and moves through a real workflow from draft to complete.

→ Version history tracks every change
→ Status workflow: claimed, in dev, in review, complete
v3.2In Development
Payment processing integration
Draft→Review→In Dev→Complete
History
v3.2 Updated acceptance criteria · 2h ago
v3.1 Added rate limiting spec · 1d ago
v3.0 Major revision from review · 3d ago
Recommended Next
REQ-012 · Payment Integration
No blockers · High impact · 2 dependents waiting
Start →
REQ-015 · Email Notifications
Blocked by REQ-012 · Medium impact
REQ-018 · Admin Dashboard
Blocked by REQ-012, REQ-015 · High impact

Smart prioritization

Always know what’s next.

ScopeLoop recommends the best next piece of work to pick up — based on dependencies, impact, and what’s unblocked. Nobody stares at a backlog wondering where to start.

Delivery pipelines

Approve the spec. ScopeLoop drives the build.

Connect a repository and a coding agent — Claude Code or Codex — to your project. When a requirement is approved, ScopeLoop hands it to the right pipeline as a work order: the agent writes the code and opens a pull request, and your change ships through your normal Git review. AI does the work; you stay in control of what ships.

→ Every change lands as a pull request — a human gate on every merge
→ Dial automation up or down per pipeline, with deploy-risk ratings on each change
→ Review inboxes, token metering, and monthly budgets keep cost and scope in your hands
→ Optional managed hosting that redeploys on every merge
Delivery Pipeline
Web App
acme/web · main · GitHub
Active
Claude CodeHuman-gated
✓ REQ-021 approved · Checkout flow
✓ Agent implemented · 14 files changed
✓ Smoke test passed
→ PR #142 opened for review
Drift Watch
REQ-014 · Authentication flow
Drift
⚠ Code diverged from the spec
auth/session.ts · flagged on merge of PR #156
Reconcile specReview changes
Rate-limit guard
Undocumented
Code does something no spec describes
Draft requirement
✓ 18 requirements in sync with main

The differentiator · Drift Watch

When code drifts from the spec, you’ll know.

Every other SDD tool hands you a spec and watches it rot. ScopeLoop is built the other way: every merged commit is AI-reviewed against your specs. When code diverges, ScopeLoop raises the spec change to reconcile it — or drafts a new requirement when the code did something no spec described. Your source of truth stays true, in both directions.

→ Every merged commit is AI-reviewed against your specs — automatically
→ Code diverged? ScopeLoop raises the spec change to reconcile it
→ Code did something undocumented? It drafts a new requirement to capture it

Build-ready scope

No more garbage in, garbage out.

AI builds exactly what you wrote — including the gaps. ScopeLoop rates every requirement build-ready before an agent ever touches it: it flags ambiguity and missing criteria, and one click enriches the spec — grounded in your project goal and neighboring requirements. A build gate holds vague specs back until they’re ready.

→ Every requirement scored build-ready, with the gaps called out
→ One-click AI refine — user story → EARS (“The system SHALL…”) → Given/When/Then
→ A build gate keeps agents from building against vague specs
Readiness
REQ-031 · Checkout flow
62% ready
⚠ No acceptance criteria for failed payment
⚠ Edge cases not defined
Refine with AI
✓ REQ-028 · Login96% · build-ready

Works with your agents

AI-native. MCP-first.

Most planning tools are built for humans only — your AI agents see the plan only when someone pastes it into a prompt. ScopeLoop connects agents directly through MCP (Model Context Protocol): they read the spec, claim work, build against acceptance criteria, and report back.

$ claude code --mcp scopeloop
✓ Connected via MCP to ScopeLoop
✓ Project: acme-app (12 requirements)
→ Next: REQ-012 Payment Integration
  3 acceptance criteria loaded
  Dependencies resolved. Ready to build.
⚡ Agent building REQ-012...

MCP-native connection

AI agents connect directly to your project. No copy-pasting tickets into prompts, no context loss.

Clear acceptance criteria

Every requirement comes with testable criteria. Your agent knows exactly what "done" looks like.

Works with Claude Code and Codex

Hand work orders to Claude Code or Codex over MCP — they query requirements, claim work, and validate against acceptance criteria, all programmatically.

Built for builders

Who ScopeLoop is for.

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Product Leaders

Turn stakeholder conversations into structured scope your team can actually execute against. Stop losing requirements in translation.

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Engineering Managers

Get a dependency-ordered build plan instead of a flat backlog. Your team always knows what to build next — and so do your AI agents.

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Consultants & Dev Shops

Scope client projects with precision. Deliver structured requirements and build plans that earn trust and reduce rework.

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Founders & Solo Builders

Ship real software without a big team. Describe what you want, approve the specs, and let connected agents handle the building — with you in control.

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