Canary

Canary is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by nWave-ai in nWave.

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Install Canary

Copy Canary 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-canary ~/.claude/skills/nw-canary

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-canary/SKILL.md in nWave-ai/nWave
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/nw-canary
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Canary does

Canary detects whether auto-injection is active by exposing a known marker for verification. Use it to confirm skill-loading behavior during testing.

Canary is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Canary comes from a repository tagged agentic-ai, agentic-coding, agentic-framework, agentic-workflow and ai.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Canary Skill

This skill exists solely for injection detection (ADR-006).

If you can read this content without explicitly loading the file, auto-injection is active and working.

Passphrase: NWAVE_SKILL_INJECTION_ACTIVE_2026

Do not modify this file. Its content integrity is verified by automated tests in tests/canary/test_skill_injection.py.

Frequently asked about Canary

What else does nWave-ai publish alongside Canary?
Canary 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 Canary 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 Canary compare to other Quality skills?
Canary ranks #1133 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Canary against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.