Wave Methodology Knowledge

Wave Methodology Knowledge is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by nWave-ai in nWave.

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Install Wave Methodology Knowledge

Copy Wave Methodology Knowledge 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/nWave-ai/nWave/tree/main/nWave/skills/nw-buddy-wave-knowledge ~/.claude/skills/nw-buddy-wave-knowledge

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/nWave-ai/nWave.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: nWave/skills/nw-buddy-wave-knowledge/SKILL.md in nWave-ai/nWave
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/nw-buddy-wave-knowledge
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Wave Methodology Knowledge does

Wave Methodology Knowledge maps the nWave process from DISCOVER through DELIVER, including each wave’s purpose, inputs, outputs, and primary agent. Use it to route questions about where work is in the process and what comes next.

Wave Methodology Knowledge is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Wave Methodology Knowledge comes from a repository tagged agentic-ai, agentic-coding, agentic-framework, agentic-workflow and ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Wave Methodology Knowledge

The nWave methodology organizes work into a canonical sequence of waves. Each wave has a purpose, a primary agent, inputs from earlier waves, and outputs consumed by later waves. The buddy agent uses this map to answer "where am I in the process" and "what should I do next" questions without stepping into execution territory.

The canonical wave sequence

DISCOVER -> DISCUSS -> SPIKE(opt) -> DESIGN -> DEVOPS -> DISTILL -> DELIVER

Each wave has a slash command (/nw-<wave>) and a primary agent. Waves run top-to-bottom. Skipping waves is a smell; going back to revise an earlier wave is normal and expected. SPIKE is optional — include it when validating a new mechanism, performance requirement, or external integration.

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

Commands Wave Methodology Knowledge provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/nw-
/nw-deliver

Frequently asked about Wave Methodology Knowledge

What else does nWave-ai publish alongside Wave Methodology Knowledge?
Wave Methodology Knowledge is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from nWave-ai/nWave, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AT Completeness Check, Acceptance Test Critique Dimensions and Agent Creation Workflow. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Wave Methodology Knowledge does, and is maintained by nWave-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the nWave-ai/nWave page.
How does Wave Methodology Knowledge compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Wave Methodology Knowledge ranks #1941 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 Wave Methodology Knowledge against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.