Ralph Specum

Ralph Specum is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by tzachbon in smart-ralph.

527 stars47 forkson tzachbon/smart-ralphAdded 2026/08/26+2% in starsRepository updated 2026/07/23

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Install Ralph Specum

Copy Ralph Specum 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/tzachbon/smart-ralph/tree/main/plugins/ralph-specum-codex/skills/ralph-specum ~/.claude/skills/ralph-specum

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/tzachbon/smart-ralph.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/ralph-specum-codex/skills/ralph-specum/SKILL.md in tzachbon/smart-ralph
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ralph-specum
Collection: One of 19 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Ralph Specum does

Ralph Specum coordinates spec-driven coding phases for Ralph workflows, including triage, research, requirements, design, tasks, and implementation. Use it when explicitly invoking $ralph-specum, asking for autonomous or quick mode, or resuming a named phase.

Ralph Specum is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Ralph Specum comes from a repository tagged agentic-coding, ai, ai-agents, autonomous-coding and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Ralph Specum

Use this as the primary Codex surface for Ralph Specum. It carries the full reusable workflow and can handle the entire command surface directly when helper skills are not installed.

Read These References

references/workflow.md for the phase flow, branch and worktree behavior, quick mode, and command routing
references/state-contract.md for .ralph-state.json, .progress.md, commit rules, and resume semantics
references/path-resolution.md for specs_dirs, .current-spec, ambiguity handling, and default directory behavior
references/parity-matrix.md for Claude-to-Codex feature translation and command mapping

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

Frequently asked about Ralph Specum

What else does tzachbon publish alongside Ralph Specum?
Ralph Specum is one of 19 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tzachbon/smart-ralph, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Communication Style, Delegation Principle and Ralph Specum Cancel. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Ralph Specum does, and is maintained by tzachbon in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tzachbon/smart-ralph page.
How does Ralph Specum compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Ralph Specum ranks #2121 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Ralph Specum against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.