# Elephant-Goldfish Model: Google’s skills for shaping specs

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Elephant-Goldfish Model, Google’s open-source plugin, provides **skills** to explore an idea, draft a specification, and challenge it before implementation. An “Elephant” agent keeps the project context; “Goldfish” reviewers inspect the document without the conversation history to surface unstated assumptions and risks.

The repository also covers resolving review findings and comparing documentation with code. Reviews require fresh subagent contexts; if the environment cannot create them, EGM stops that step.

- Selected on : 2026-11-01

- Entry updated : 2026-11-07T20:32:37+0000

- Format : Repository

- Source language : EN

Original resource : [Elephant-Goldfish Model: Google’s skills for shaping specs](<https://github.com/google/elephant-goldfish-model>)

Tags : [Agent skills](<https://sebastien.rigaux.be/en/tech-watch/tags/agent-skills>) · [Spec-driven development](<https://sebastien.rigaux.be/en/tech-watch/tags/spec-driven-development>) · [AI Agents](<https://sebastien.rigaux.be/en/tech-watch/tags/ai-agents>)

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