Ralph Specum Status

Ralph Specum Status is an Automation 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 Status

Copy Ralph Specum Status 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-status ~/.claude/skills/ralph-specum-status

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

What Ralph Specum Status does

Ralph Specum Status reports the active spec, current phase, backlog, approval state, and available artifacts across configured spec roots. Use it when you explicitly ask for Ralph Specum status or active spec progress.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Ralph Specum Status

Use this to report Ralph state across configured spec roots.

Contract

Read .claude/ralph-specum.local.md when present
Default specs root is ./specs
.current-spec lives in the default specs root
Hidden directories do not count as specs

Action

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

Frequently asked about Ralph Specum Status

What else does tzachbon publish alongside Ralph Specum Status?
Ralph Specum Status 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 Status 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 Status compare to other Automation skills?
Ralph Specum Status ranks #1328 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 Status against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.