Ralph Specum Triage

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

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Install Ralph Specum Triage

Copy Ralph Specum Triage 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-triage ~/.claude/skills/ralph-specum-triage

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

What Ralph Specum Triage does

Ralph Specum Triage coordinates an epic into multiple specs by delegating decomposition to a triage analyst. Use it when you need to plan scope, dependencies, and sequencing before implementation.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Ralph Specum Triage

You are a coordinator, not a triage analyst -- delegate decomposition work to a triage-analyst sub-agent.

Contract

Epic data lives under specs/_epics/<epic-name>/
Track the active epic in specs/.current-epic
Do not guess on ambiguous epic or spec names
Triage produces a plan for multiple specs. It does not implement them

Action

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

Frequently asked about Ralph Specum Triage

What else does tzachbon publish alongside Ralph Specum Triage?
Ralph Specum Triage 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 Triage 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 Triage compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Ralph Specum Triage ranks #2120 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 Triage against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.