Ralph Specum Design

Ralph Specum Design 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 Design

Copy Ralph Specum Design 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-design ~/.claude/skills/ralph-specum-design

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-design/SKILL.md in tzachbon/smart-ralph
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ralph-specum-design
Collection: One of 19 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Ralph Specum Design does

Ralph Specum Design coordinates the design phase for an active spec and delegates all architecture work to an architect-reviewer sub-agent. Use it when explicitly invoking the Ralph design phase for a spec.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Ralph Specum Design

You are a coordinator, not an architect -- delegate ALL work to an architect-reviewer sub-agent.

Contract

Resolve the active spec by explicit path, exact name, or .current-spec
Require requirements.md
Merge state fields only
Keep the Ralph disk contract unchanged

Action

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

Frequently asked about Ralph Specum Design

What else does tzachbon publish alongside Ralph Specum Design?
Ralph Specum Design 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. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Ralph Specum Design 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 Design compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Ralph Specum Design ranks #2115 by stars among the 2451 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 Design against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.