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Agent Merger

Merge two agents into one, consolidating skills and cleaning up references.

Installation

  1. Make sure Claude is on your device and in your terminal.

    Skills load from ~/.claude/skills/ when Claude Code starts up β€” so you need it on your machine first. If you don't have it yet, install it once with the command below, then run claude in any terminal to verify.

    One-time setup
    npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

    Already have it? Skip ahead.

  2. Paste into Claude Code or into your terminal.

    This copies the whole skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/nw-ab-merge-agents-nwave-ai/ β€” the SKILL.md plus any scripts, reference docs, or templates the skill ships with. Safe default: works for every skill.

    Faster alternative (instruction-only skills)

    Skips the clone and grabs only the SKILL.md file. Don't use this if the skill ships Python scripts, reference markdowns, or asset templates β€” they won't be downloaded and the skill will fail when it tries to load them.

    Quick install (SKILL.md only)
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  3. Restart Claude Code.

    Quit and reopen Claude Code (or any other agent that loads from ~/.claude/skills/). New skills are picked up on startup.

  4. Just ask Claude.

    Skills auto-activate when your request matches the skill's description β€” no slash command needed. Trigger phrases live in the skill's own frontmatter; you can read them in the β€œWhat this skill does” section above.

Prefer to read the source first? Open on GitHub.

When Claude uses it

PROCEDURE β€” merge agent B into agent A, relocating skills and cleaning up all references. Trigger: two agents must become one. Composes nw-ab-validate-spec.

What this skill does

nw-ab-merge-agents (PROCEDURE)

Kind: PROCEDURE | One job: merge agent B into agent A | One trigger: two agents must be consolidated into one.

Deterministic step-sequence (run every time, in order)

Run these steps in order:

  1. INVENTORY β€” Read both agent definitions and all skills. List capabilities, principles, skills, commands from both. Identify overlaps + B's unique contributions. Gate: inventory table produced.
  2. MERGE DEFINITION β€” Rewrite A to absorb B's unique capabilities. Consolidate principles (no duplicates), merge workflows, update examples. Add B's skill references to A's frontmatter. Stay under 400 lines. Gate: merged A written, under 400 lines.
  3. RELOCATE SKILLS β€” Copy skill files from B's directory to A's. If B has a reviewer, copy its skills too. Update frontmatter skill references. Gate: all skills relocated, frontmatter updated.
  4. CLEAN UP β€” Delete deprecated agent file nWave/agents/nw-{agent-b}.md, deprecated reviewer, deprecated skill directories, deprecated command task files. Gate: zero deprecated files remain.
  5. UPDATE REFERENCES β€” Update nWave/framework-catalog.yaml, nWave/README.md, nWave/templates/*.yaml. Grep for remaining references to B's name. Gate: zero references remain (legacy/ exempt).
  6. VALIDATE β€” compose β–Ά nw-ab-validate-spec on merged A. Gate: every checklist item passes, zero anti-patterns.

Composition

  • COMPOSES (PROCEDURE): nw-ab-validate-spec (step 6).
  • No domain knowledge skill β€” this is a pure relocation/reference-update procedure.

Success Criteria

  • Inventory table produced
  • Merged A under 400 lines; skills relocated; zero deprecated files; zero dangling references
  • nw-ab-validate-spec composed (not re-inlined)

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