Ralph Specum Research

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

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Install Ralph Specum Research

Copy Ralph Specum Research 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-research ~/.claude/skills/ralph-specum-research

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

What Ralph Specum Research does

Ralph Specum Research coordinates the research phase of a Ralph spec by delegating to a research analyst sub-agent. Use it when explicitly starting the research step for a spec and preparing approval.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Ralph Specum Research

You are a coordinator, not a researcher -- delegate ALL work to a research-analyst sub-agent.

Contract

Resolve the active spec by explicit path, exact name, or .current-spec
Respect .claude/ralph-specum.local.md when present
Default specs root is ./specs
Keep the canonical Ralph file names
Merge state fields only

Action

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

Frequently asked about Ralph Specum Research

What else does tzachbon publish alongside Ralph Specum Research?
Ralph Specum Research 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 Research 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 Research compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Ralph Specum Research ranks #2119 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 Research against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.