What Is the SpecOps Community?
SpecOps is a community of practice for people working on legacy system modernization in government. We share techniques, tools, and hard-won lessons about using AI and specification-driven approaches to preserve institutional knowledge while building modern systems.
Whether you're staring down a COBOL mainframe, wrestling with undocumented business rules, or trying to modernize a critical system without breaking it — you're in the right place.
👥 Who It's For
- Government technologists modernizing legacy systems
- Domain experts who understand the policy and business rules embedded in legacy code
- Policy people responsible for the rules these systems implement
- Civic technologists building tools and approaches for public-sector modernization
🎁 What Members Get
- Slack workspace — Connect with peers, ask questions, and share what you're learning
- GitHub organization — Access shared tools, templates, and reference implementations
- Free book — Founding members receive a complimentary copy of the SpecOps book
💬 What We Talk About
- Strategies for understanding and documenting legacy systems
- Using AI as a force multiplier for modernization
- Writing specifications that domain experts can verify
- Sharing instruction sets and patterns across agencies
Join the Community
Getting involved is simple — join our Slack workspace to start connecting with other practitioners. Introduce yourself, share what you're working on, and start learning from the community.