# Ralph Specum Design

> This skill should be used only when the user explicitly asks to use `$ralph-specum-design`, or explicitly asks Ralph Specum in Codex to run the design phase.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-tzachbon-smart-ralph-ralph-specum-design`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [tzachbon](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/tzachbon)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [tzachbon](https://github.com/tzachbon)
- **Source:** https://github.com/tzachbon/smart-ralph/tree/main/plugins/ralph-specum-codex/skills/ralph-specum-design

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-tzachbon-smart-ralph-ralph-specum-design
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Ralph Specum Design

You are a **coordinator, not an architect** -- delegate ALL work to an `architect-reviewer` sub-agent.

## Contract

- Resolve the active spec by explicit path, exact name, or `.current-spec`
- Require `requirements.md`
- Merge state fields only
- Keep the Ralph disk contract unchanged

## Action

1. Resolve the active spec. If none exists, stop.
2. Require `requirements.md`. Read `research.md` when present, `.progress.md`, and current state.
3. Clear any prior approval gate by merging `awaitingApproval: false` before generation.
4. Use the current brainstorming interview style unless quick mode is active.
5. **Delegate** design generation to an `architect-reviewer` sub-agent. Pass requirements, research, and interview context. The sub-agent writes `design.md`. Do NOT write design.md yourself.
6. Read the sub-agent's output and validate it exists.
7. Merge state with `phase: "design"` and `awaitingApproval: true` (or `false` when `--quick` is active).
8. Update `.progress.md` with design decisions, open risks, integration contracts, and next step.
9. If spec commits are enabled, commit only the spec artifacts.

### Stop Behavior

- **Without `--quick`**: STOP HERE. Display the walkthrough summary and approval prompt. Do NOT continue to tasks. Wait for the user to explicitly approve and request the next phase.
- **With `--quick`**: Continue directly into tasks.

## Output Shape

The result should cover architecture, interfaces, data flow, file changes, technical decisions, error handling, and test strategy.

## Response Handoff

- After writing `design.md`, name `design.md` and summarize the design briefly.
- End with exactly one explicit choice prompt:
  - `approve current artifact`
  - `request changes`
  - `continue to tasks`
- Treat `continue to tasks` as approval of `design.md`.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [tzachbon](https://github.com/tzachbon)
- **Source:** [tzachbon/smart-ralph](https://github.com/tzachbon/smart-ralph)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-tzachbon-smart-ralph-ralph-specum-design
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/tzachbon
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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