Shep Implement

Shep Implement is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by shep-ai in shep.

247 stars53 forkson shep-ai/shepAdded 2026/09/02Repository updated 2026/08/28

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Install Shep Implement

Copy Shep Implement 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/shep-ai/shep/tree/main/.claude/skills/shep-kit-implement ~/.claude/skills/shep-kit-implement

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/shep-ai/shep.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/shep-kit-implement/SKILL.md in shep-ai/shep
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/shep-kit-implement
Collection: One of 19 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2631 skills

What Shep Implement does

Shep Implement validates feature specs and then executes implementation tasks from YAML with status tracking. Use it after planning is complete and you're ready to start coding.

Shep Implement is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Shep Implement comes from a repository tagged agent-orchestration, agentic-ai, ai, ai-agents and ai-code-generation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Autonomous Implementation Executor

When to Use

Use this skill after /shep-kit:plan has created plan.yaml and tasks.yaml, and you're ready to start implementation.

Triggers:

User says "implement", "start implementation", "execute tasks"
User runs /shep-kit:implement explicitly
After completing planning phase and ready to write code

Don't use if:

Planning is not complete (plan.yaml or tasks.yaml missing)
Specs have open questions that need resolution
Architecture decisions are not finalized

What This Skill Does

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

Frequently asked about Shep Implement

What else does shep-ai publish alongside Shep Implement?
Shep Implement is one of 19 skills that DirSkills catalogs from shep-ai/shep, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Architecture Reviewer, Commit PR and Cross-Validate Artifacts. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Shep Implement does, and is maintained by shep-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the shep-ai/shep page.
How does Shep Implement compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Shep Implement ranks #2341 by stars among the 2631 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 Shep Implement against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.