nw-new

nw-new is a skill for Claude Code from nWave-ai/nWave. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,282 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided wizard for starting a new feature. It asks what you want to build, identifies the kind of work involved, recommends a starting workflow, and launches it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you have a new feature request and need help describing the problem, the affected system, and who benefits.
Why use it?
You do not need to learn the full development process before beginning a feature. The wizard turns a rough feature idea into a clearer starting point.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it when you have a new feature request and need help describing the problem, the affected system, and who benefits.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-new
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 nWave-ai/nWave --skill nw-new
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nWave-ai/nWave

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for nw-new

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-new.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-new)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-new"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-new.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,282 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00030 $0.01282
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00641
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00128

Measured 4d ago against content hash 823183224dd6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nw-new 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 4d 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-new/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NW-NEW: Start a New Feature

Wave: CROSS_WAVE (entry point) Agent: Main Instance (self — wizard) Command: /nw-new

Overview

Conversational wizard that asks the user to describe their feature|classifies it|recommends a starting wave|launches it. Eliminates need to understand the 6-wave pipeline before using nWave.

You (the main Claude instance) run this wizard directly. No subagent delegation.

Behavior Flow

Step 1: Feature Description Intake

Ask the user to describe what they want to build. If provided as argument, use that.

If vague (fewer than 3 meaningful words or unclassifiable):

  • Ask: What system is being changed?
  • Ask: What problem are you solving?
  • Ask: Who benefits from this change?
  • Provide example: "Add rate limiting to prevent API abuse"

Do NOT proceed until you have a clear, actionable description.

Step 2: Feature ID Derivation

Derive feature ID per rules in ~/.claude/nWave/skills/common/wizard-shared-rules.md (section: Feature ID Derivation).

Examples: "Add rate limiting to the API gateway" -> rate-limiting-api-gateway | "OAuth2 upgrade" -> oauth2-upgrade | "Implement a real-time notification system with WebSocket support for mobile and desktop clients" -> real-time-notification-system-websocket

Show derived ID via AskUserQuestion. Allow override with custom value.

Step 3: Name Conflict Check

Check if docs/feature/{feature-id}/ exists. If so, offer via AskUserQuestion:

  1. Continue that project — switch to /nw-continue
  2. Start fresh with different name — ask for distinguishing name
  3. Archive and restart — move to docs/feature/{feature-id}-archived-{date}/

Step 4: Clarifying Questions

Use AskUserQuestion:

Q1: New or existing behavior?

  • New functionality that doesn't exist yet
  • Changing/improving existing functionality
  • Fixing a bug or regression

Q2: Requirements readiness?

  • Clear requirements in my head but nothing written
  • Rough idea, need to explore further
  • Haven't validated whether problem is worth solving

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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. 4d ago First seen · 153 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 823183224dd6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nw-new is a skill published in the GitHub repository nWave-ai/nWave (608 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,282 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

parallel-feature-development

Coordinate parallel feature development with file ownership strategies, conflict avoidance rules, and integration patterns for multi-agent implementation. Use this skill when decomposing a large feature into independent work streams, when two or more agents need to implement different layers of the same system…

wshobson/agents · 105 tokens

bazel-build-optimization

Optimize Bazel builds for large-scale monorepos. Use when configuring Bazel, implementing remote execution, or optimizing build performance for enterprise codebases.

wshobson/agents · 36 tokens

track-management

Use this skill when creating, managing, or working with Conductor tracks - the logical work units for features, bugs, and refactors. Applies to spec.md, plan.md, and track lifecycle operations.

wshobson/agents · 44 tokens

workflow-patterns

Use this skill when implementing tasks according to Conductor's TDD workflow, handling phase checkpoints, managing git commits for tasks, or understanding the verification protocol.

wshobson/agents · 35 tokens

planning

Create structured plan documents and track work items using YAML frontmatter. Use when the user wants to plan a feature, track progress, log bugs/tasks/ideas, or organize project work.

nimbalyst/nimbalyst · 39 tokens

organize-task-files

Lists, pairs, deduplicates, and moves task files across the Coworker task state machine (0draft → 6git-pushed). Use when asked to organize, clean up, or audit task files.

platonai/Browser4 · 49 tokens