# spec2cloud spec2cloud is an orchestration system that drives application development from human-language specifications to deployment on Azure. It operates in two distinct modes: greenfield (building from scratch) and brownfield (working with existing codebases). The system uses the Ralph loop pattern—a repeatable cycle of state reading, task determination, skill execution, verification, and state updates—to guide projects through product discovery phases and increment delivery, with mandatory checkpoints at each phase boundary. The project is built around a catalog of specialized skills housed in `.github/skills/`, each following the agentskills.io standard. These skills cover discrete concerns including spec refinement, UI/UX design, test generation, contract generation, implementation, and Azure deployment for greenfield projects, as well as codebase extraction, architecture mapping, and assessment for brownfield scenarios. The orchestrator itself is monolithic—a single process that invokes skills as needed, enforces prerequisite verification before each skill runs, and maintains detailed state and audit logs throughout execution. Human approval gates are embedded at defined phase transitions, and the system enforces strict test discipline: new tests must fail before implementation begins, all tests must pass before deployment, and test skipping is prohibited. The material does not name a specific company, author, or institution, nor does it specify implementation languages beyond references to the technologies managed (Azure, TypeScript, Playwright, Gherkin, Vitest, and Aspire).