Skills Reference

nspec provides slash commands (skills) for Claude Code and prompt templates for Codex agents. Skills are installed during nspec init and can be updated with nspec skills sync.

Claude Code Skills

Skill	Description
/ngo	Full spec executor — resolve, execute, verify, review, and complete a spec
/nloop	Autonomous loop through the backlog — pick, execute, complete, repeat
/nbacklog	View the backlog dashboard
/nspec	Create a new spec with codebase-aware pre-fill
/nepic	Create a new epic with goals, scope, and child spec decomposition
/nreview	Request a code review for a spec
/nreview-epic	Batch review all specs in an epic with cross-spec consistency checking
/nplan	Plan mode that outputs nspec specs
/ntriage	Pull issues from GitHub, triage or import as nspec specs
/nissue	Import GitHub issues as nspec specs with interactive refinement
/nissue-loop	Autonomous issue processing loop
/nstandup	Generate a status update from nspec backlog + git history
/nhandoff	Snapshot current session state to a handoff file
/nbacklog-handoff	Generate session handoff summary
/nqa	Run quality analysis and suggest high-ROI specs
/nci	CI dashboard — list recent runs, watch active runs, drill into failures
/nverify-tests	Verify FR test cases have corresponding tests in the test suite
/ndedup	Deduplicate and group specs within an epic
/nepic-decompose	Decompose an existing epic into child specs
/nsync-skills	Sync nspec skills to the current project
/nsync-issues	Audit and resolve GitHub issue sync mismatches
/ntemplates	List available nspec builtin templates
/nbootstrap	Bootstrap a project-specific DEV-PROCESS.md
/nunify	Detect and resolve spec ID collisions after branch merges
/nfileissue	File a bug report or feature request against nspec
/nspec-bug	Report a bug or request a feature for nspec itself
/ne2e-lifecycle	Full e2e lifecycle test

Codex Prompt Templates

Template	Description
review	Code review against spec acceptance criteria
review-epic	Batch epic review with cross-spec consistency
refine	IMPL task refinement from skeleton
dead-code-analysis	Dead code detection and cleanup

Managing Skills

nspec skills list           # List installed skills
nspec skills sync           # Re-sync after nspec upgrade

Via MCP:

skills_install()    # Install to .novabuilt.dev/nspec/commands/
skills_list()       # List available skills
skills_sync()       # Re-sync from sources
skills_update()     # Apply update with consent