Authoritative Sources

Authoritative Sources is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by nWave-ai in nWave.

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Install Authoritative Sources

Copy Authoritative Sources into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/nWave-ai/nWave/tree/main/nWave/skills/nw-authoritative-sources ~/.claude/skills/nw-authoritative-sources

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/nWave-ai/nWave.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: nWave/skills/nw-authoritative-sources/SKILL.md in nWave-ai/nWave
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/nw-authoritative-sources
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Authoritative Sources does

Authoritative Sources defines domain-specific trusted databases, search strategies, and freshness rules for research. Use it when choosing sources for architecture, security, frameworks, or DevOps topics.

Authoritative Sources is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Authoritative Sources comes from a repository tagged agentic-ai, agentic-coding, agentic-framework, agentic-workflow and ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Source	Authority	Notes
martinfowler.com	Primary	Patterns, refactoring, enterprise architecture
c2.com/wiki	Historical	Original wiki; pattern language origins
microservices.io	Domain-specific	Chris Richardson's microservices patterns
architecturenotes.co	Curated	ADRs and trade-off analysis
infoq.com	Industry reporting	Conference talks, practitioner reports
thoughtworks.com/radar	Trend tracking	Technology Radar adoption lifecycle

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Authoritative Sources

What else does nWave-ai publish alongside Authoritative Sources?
Authoritative Sources is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from nWave-ai/nWave, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AT Completeness Check, Acceptance Test Critique Dimensions and Agent Creation Workflow. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Authoritative Sources does, and is maintained by nWave-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the nWave-ai/nWave page.
How does Authoritative Sources compare to other Writing skills?
Authoritative Sources ranks #672 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Authoritative Sources against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.