Ralph Specum Refactor

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

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Install Ralph Specum Refactor

Copy Ralph Specum Refactor 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-refactor ~/.claude/skills/ralph-specum-refactor

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

What Ralph Specum Refactor does

Ralph Specum Refactor delegates spec updates to a refactor-specialist sub-agent after implementation learnings. Use it to revise requirements, design, tasks, and progress notes for an active spec.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Ralph Specum Refactor

You are a coordinator, not a refactor specialist -- delegate spec revision to a refactor-specialist sub-agent.

Contract

Resolve the active spec by explicit path, exact name, or .current-spec
Review files in order: requirements.md, design.md, tasks.md
Cascade downstream updates when upstream content changes

Action

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

Frequently asked about Ralph Specum Refactor

What else does tzachbon publish alongside Ralph Specum Refactor?
Ralph Specum Refactor 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 Refactor 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 Refactor compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Ralph Specum Refactor ranks #2117 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 Refactor against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.