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 - [⚡ Get Started](#-get-started)
 - [📽️ Video Overview](#️-video-overview)
 - [🚶 Community Walkthroughs](#-community-walkthroughs)
+- [🛠️ Community Friends](#️-community-friends)
 - [🤖 Supported AI Agents](#-supported-ai-agents)
 - [🔧 Specify CLI Reference](#-specify-cli-reference)
 - [🧩 Making Spec Kit Your Own: Extensions & Presets](#-making-spec-kit-your-own-extensions--presets)
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 - **[Greenfield Spring Boot + React with a custom extension](https://github.com/mnriem/spec-kit-aide-extension-demo)** — Walks through the **AIDE extension**, a community extension that adds an alternative spec-driven workflow to spec-kit with high-level specs (vision) and low-level specs (work items) organized in a 7-step iterative lifecycle: vision → roadmap → progress tracking → work queue → work items → execution → feedback loops. Uses a family trading platform (Spring Boot 4, React 19, PostgreSQL, Docker Compose) as the scenario to illustrate how the extension mechanism lets you plug in a different style of spec-driven development without changing any core tooling — truly utilizing the "Kit" in Spec Kit.
 
+## 🛠️ Community Friends
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+Community-built tools that integrate with Spec Kit to enhance the SDD workflow:
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+- **[Spec Kit Assistant](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rfsales.speckit-assistant)** — A VS Code extension that provides a visual orchestrator for the full SDD workflow (constitution → specification → planning → tasks → implementation) with phase status visualization, an interactive task checklist, DAG visualization, and support for Claude, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI backends. Requires the `specify` CLI in your PATH.
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 ## 🤖 Supported AI Agents
 
 | Agent                                                                                | Support | Notes                                                                                                                                     |