Project Reading

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

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Install Project Reading

Copy Project Reading 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-buddy-project-reading ~/.claude/skills/nw-buddy-project-reading

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

What Project Reading does

Project Reading helps a buddy agent inspect a codebase in a defined order and answer questions with file-and-line citations. Use it when you need grounded project facts, architecture context, or current state without guessing.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Project Reading for the Buddy Agent

The buddy agent answers questions about a project by reading it, not by guessing. Every answer must be traceable to a specific file and line. This skill is the reading protocol.

Goals

Understand the project's architecture, current state, and methodology enough to answer the user's question.
Cite every claim (path:line) so the user can verify.
Avoid reading more than necessary — tokens and time both cost.
Never invent file contents, function names, or architecture claims.

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

Frequently asked about Project Reading

What else does nWave-ai publish alongside Project Reading?
Project Reading 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 Project Reading 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 Project Reading compare to other Quality skills?
Project Reading ranks #1135 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 Project Reading against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.