Instructions for using Nx import, a command that brings code from another repository or folder into an Nx workspace while preserving its Git history.

Importing individual applications or libraries, choosing a destination directory, preserving commits, and handling directory conflicts or version-specific prompts.

They clarify how to import directories without conflicts and explain limits around monorepo folders and root configuration.

nx-import — Skill for Claude Code by nrwl

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add nrwl/nx-ai-agents-config --skill nx-import

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nrwl/nx-ai-agents-config

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nx, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

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README.md

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,431 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
Snyk pass 13 Mar 2026

How audits are shown

Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00000	$0.03431
Opus 5	$0.00000	$0.01716
Sonnet 5	$0.00000	$0.00686
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00343

Measured 11d ago against content hash 541f84c5a39d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

nx-import scanned grade C with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

**Fix**: `rm -rf imported/node_modules imported/pnpm-lock.yaml imported/pnpm-workspace.yaml imported/.gitignore`, then `pnpm install`.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to nx-import — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

artifacts/skills/nx-import/SKILL.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Quick Start

nx import brings code from a source repository or folder into the current workspace, preserving commit history.
After nx 22.6.0, nx import responds with .ndjson outputs and follow-up questions. For earlier versions, always run with --no-interactive and specify all flags directly.
Run nx import --help for available options.
Make sure the destination directory is empty before importing. EXAMPLE: target has libs/utils and libs/models; source has libs/ui and libs/data-access — you cannot import libs/ into libs/ directly. Import each source library individually.

Primary docs:

Read the nx docs if you have the tools for it.

Import Strategy

Subdirectory-at-a-time (nx import <source> apps --source=apps):

Recommended for monorepo sources — files land at top level, no redundant config
Caveats: multiple import commands (separate merge commits each); dest must not have conflicting directories; root configs (deps, plugins, targetDefaults) not imported
Directory conflicts: Import into alternate-named dir (e.g. imported-apps/), then rename

Whole repo (nx import <source> imported --source=.):

Only for non-monorepo sources (single-project repos)
For monorepos, creates messy nested config (imported/nx.json, imported/tsconfig.base.json, etc.)
If you must: keep imported tsconfig.base.json (projects extend it), prefix workspace globs and executor paths

Directory Conventions

Always prefer the destination's existing conventions. Source uses libs/but dest uses packages/? Import into packages/ (nx import <source> packages/foo --source=libs/foo).
If dest has no convention (empty workspace), ask the user.

Application vs Library Detection

Before importing, identify whether the source is an application or a library:

Applications: Deployable end products. Common indicators:
- Frontend: next.config.*, vite.config.* with a build entry point, framework-specific app scaffolding (CRA, Angular CLI app, etc.)
- Backend (Node.js): Express/Fastify/NestJS server entrypoint, no "exports" field in package.json
- JVM: Maven pom.xml with <packaging>jar</packaging> or <packaging>war</packaging> and a main class; Gradle application plugin or mainClass setting
- .NET: .csproj/.fsproj with <OutputType>Exe</OutputType> or <OutputType>WinExe</OutputType>
- General: Dockerfile, a runnable entrypoint, no public API surface intended for import by other projects
Libraries: Reusable packages consumed by other projects. Common indicators: "main"/"exports" in package.json, Maven/Gradle packaging as a library jar, .NET <OutputType>Library</OutputType>, named exports intended for import by other packages.

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

11d ago First seen · 234 lines · 0 tokens per session scan C 541f84c5a39d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nx-import is a skill published in the GitHub repository nrwl/nx-ai-agents-config (28 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,431 tokens. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). It is 94% identical to nx-import, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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