Ralph Specum Switch

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

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Install Ralph Specum Switch

Copy Ralph Specum Switch 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-switch ~/.claude/skills/ralph-specum-switch

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

What Ralph Specum Switch does

Ralph Specum Switch updates the active spec pointer when explicitly asked to switch specs. It lists available specs, resolves exact names or paths, and summarizes the selected spec state.

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

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Ralph Specum Switch

Use this to switch the active spec.

Contract

Read .claude/ralph-specum.local.md when present
Parse specs_dirs from frontmatter to discover all spec roots
Treat the first specs_dirs entry as the default root
Default specs root is ./specs
.current-spec lives in the default specs root
Do not guess on ambiguous names

Action

Resolve the requested target by full path or exact name.
If no target was provided, list available specs grouped by root.
If the name is ambiguous across roots, stop and require a full path.
Update .current-spec:
- bare name for the default root
- full path for non-default roots
Read the target spec state and summarize phase, progress, approval state, and present files.

Frequently asked about Ralph Specum Switch

What else does tzachbon publish alongside Ralph Specum Switch?
Ralph Specum Switch 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 Switch 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 Switch compare to other Automation skills?
Ralph Specum Switch ranks #1329 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 Switch against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.