Most teams write the same spec twice.
The brief lives in one tool. The spec lives in another. The ticket lives in a third. Each handoff loses the customer context, paraphrases the requirement, and breaks the link back to what customers said. By the time the agent or engineer picks it up, the why has been three steps removed from the words that started it.
Circuit holds one artifact — drafted from signal, refined in natural language, opened from any surface, handed off live to your coding agent. The citations survive every edit. The shape doesn’t drift between tools.
From priority to spec, in seconds.
The spec is built from the cluster of feedback behind the priority.
Click a priority and Circuit drafts the spec from the underlying feedback — five sections, in the customer's voice, cited line by line.
When your repo is connected, the Files-to-Touch section carries your conventions and file paths, so the spec is implementable, not aspirational.
Edit any section inline, or ask in natural language — “sharpen the acceptance criteria,” “simplify to one paragraph.” Every revision is kept.
Priorities, Roadmap, Spec map, Share Back, customer panels, MCP — every surface opens the same spec. No sync, no two versions.
One document, five sections, every citation intact.
A spec is only as trustworthy as its grounding. Circuit keeps the customer signal attached to every line, all the way to ship.
Hover any line to see the exact feedback behind it. Paraphrase the line and the citations follow. The grounding survives your edits.
What to Build, Why It Matters, Customer Voice, Files to Touch, Done When. The shape doesn’t drift — readers know where to find what they need.
“Add technical constraints.” “Simplify to one paragraph.” The spec updates and the previous version is kept. No starting over.
What’s in the spec.
Real quotes pulled from the cluster, not paraphrases. Reviewers feel the signal.
The spec points at where the work goes in your codebase, parsed from your repo’s conventions.
Acceptance criteria in the customer’s language — “export to CSV with a date column,” not “user can export.”
Emerging, active, accelerating, sustained, declining or dormant — you see the state of the underlying priority as you draft.
A readiness score on every spec. When the signal moves on, Circuit flags it as stale.
The risk section is populated from what happened on past work in the same area, not invented.
Every refine and edit kept. View any previous version read-only, restore if needed.
Three tiers — workspace, company email, or public — so reviewers can read without an account.
Asked and answered.
They’re the same artifact. Database calls it a build. The UI calls it a spec. “Brief” is what we say when we mean the early draft. One row, one document, one citation chain — opened from anywhere.
Seconds. You click a priority and the draft appears, already cited. Most of your time goes to refining, not authoring.
Every requirement links back to the specific feedback that produced it. Hover any line to see the customer quotes behind it.
The citations follow. Paraphrase the line in your own words and the link to the source feedback stays attached.
Yes, in natural language. Ask Circuit to sharpen the criteria, add constraints or simplify, and it updates while keeping every previous version in history.
With your repo connected, Circuit reads sixteen GitHub signals and packs them into five prompt sections — RELEVANT CODE CONTEXT, RELATED ISSUES, CODEBASE CONVENTIONS, TESTING PATTERN and DIRECTORY OVERVIEW — so the spec fits your codebase.
Yes. The citations stay attached when the agent pulls the spec, when you push to GitHub, and when Share Back fires on ship. The why travels the whole loop.