In VSCode using environment variables - SPECIFY_FEATURE

[mikeadyer]

Hello, I'm pretty new to using SpecKit and having difficulty with the tool organizing the artifacts as desired. It's pretty fixed on wanting to put the specify output in one place and other steps, like plan and task, into other places. I see in the plan step it running a script to get out some environment variables that pertain to this kind of information. Even after cleaning up and restarting VSCode, it is still hung up on those. I noticed mention of environment variables in the Readme.txt. I think this might be what I need to use. Can someone provide me a direction to more information on how to set and use environment variables in VSCode for the speckit agents?

"SPECIFY_FEATURE .... Must be set in the context of the agent you're working with prior to using /speckit.plan or follow-up commands."

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Context / compact («In VSCode using environment variables - SPECIFY_FEATURE»)

Apps that “compact instantly” usually mis-read the context window (wrong model id, Bedrock vs Anthropic shape) or hit a tiny default maxTokens on the summarizer.

1. Set compaction maxTokens high (e.g. 32k) and restart + new session.
2. Offload big tool output to files; keep paths in the prompt.
3. Passthrough/--no-optimize once to see if the compressor is the one looping.