Ralph Specum Start

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

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Install Ralph Specum Start

Copy Ralph Specum Start 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-start ~/.claude/skills/ralph-specum-start

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-start/SKILL.md in tzachbon/smart-ralph
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ralph-specum-start
Collection: One of 19 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Ralph Specum Start does

Ralph Specum Start initializes or resumes a spec run, updates the current spec state, and prepares the next step. Use it when starting a new spec or continuing an existing one with Ralph Specum.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Ralph Specum Start

Use this for the start and new entrypoints.

Contract

Read .claude/ralph-specum.local.md when present
Default specs root is ./specs
Keep .current-spec in the default specs root
Keep the standard Ralph files stable
Merge .ralph-state.json. Do not replace the full object

Action

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

Frequently asked about Ralph Specum Start

What else does tzachbon publish alongside Ralph Specum Start?
Ralph Specum Start 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 Start 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 Start compare to other Automation skills?
Ralph Specum Start ranks #1327 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Start against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.