nw-fast-forward

nw-fast-forward is a skill for Claude Code from nWave-ai/nWave. It costs 20 tokens per session (1,341 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An orchestration workflow that runs the remaining development waves in sequence after one confirmation. The waves cover activities such as discussion, design, operations, distillation, and delivery.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps continue an existing feature through its remaining workflow stages or start a new project workflow from a feature description.
Why use it?
It removes the need to stop and approve every wave when the overall direction is already clear.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit It helps continue an existing feature through its remaining workflow stages or start a new project workflow from a feature description.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-fast-forward
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add nWave-ai/nWave --skill nw-fast-forward
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nWave-ai/nWave

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,341 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 28
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00020 $0.01341
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00671
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00134

Measured 5d ago against content hash 24be84dbe327, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nw-fast-forward scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 5d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

nWave/skills/nw-fast-forward/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NW-FAST-FORWARD: Fast-Forward

Wave: CROSS_WAVE (entry point) | Agent: Main Instance (self — orchestrator) | Command: /nw-fast-forward

Overview

Chains remaining waves end-to-end after single user confirmation. Detects current progress (like /nw-continue), shows planned sequence, runs each wave automatically — DISCUSS > DESIGN > DEVOPS > DISTILL > DELIVER — without stopping between waves.

You (main Claude instance) run this orchestration directly. Each wave invoked by reading its task file.

DISCOVER skipped by default — requires interactive customer interview data that cannot be auto-generated. Use --from=discover to include.

Behavior Flow

Step 1: Input Parsing

Accept: feature description (new project)|--from flag with optional feature ID|no arguments (auto-detect from docs/feature/)

Step 2: Project Resolution

New project (description provided): Derive feature ID per ~/.claude/nWave/skills/common/wizard-shared-rules.md (Feature ID Derivation). Show derived ID, allow override via AskUserQuestion. Create docs/feature/{feature-id}/.

Existing project (no description): Scan docs/feature/ (same as /nw-continue Step 1-2). If multiple, ask user to select.

Step 3: Detect Current Progress

Check wave artifacts using Wave Detection Rules in ~/.claude/nWave/skills/common/wizard-shared-rules.md.

Step 4: Determine Wave Sequence

Default order (DISCOVER skipped): DISCUSS > DESIGN > DEVOPS > DISTILL > DELIVER

With --from flag: Validate prerequisite artifacts exist. If missing: "Cannot start from {wave} — {missing} artifacts missing. Run /nw-continue to fill the gap." Start from specified wave.

Without --from: Find first incomplete wave, start from there.

Step 5: Show Plan and Confirm

Feature: {feature-id}

  Fast-forward plan:
    1. DISCUSS  — Define requirements and user stories
    2. DESIGN   — Architecture and technology selection
    3. DEVOPS   — Platform and infrastructure readiness
    4. DISTILL  — Acceptance tests (Given-When-Then)
    5. DELIVER  — TDD implementation

  This will run all 5 waves without stopping for review.

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 lines

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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 162 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 24be84dbe327

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nw-fast-forward is a skill published in the GitHub repository nWave-ai/nWave (610 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,341 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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