Nereus — Testing skill for Claude Code
An opinionated development harness for Claude Code — interview → spec → TDD build → parallel review → finish, with hooks that actually block.
How to install Nereus
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open snwlee/Nereus and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Nereus does
An opinionated development harness for Claude Code — interview → spec → TDD build → parallel review → finish, with hooks that actually block.
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README
Nereus
An opinionated development harness for Claude Code.
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Interview first. Spec before code. TDD enforced by hooks. Three reviewers in parallel. Hand off before the context window fills.
Install
/plugin marketplace add snwlee/Nereus
/plugin install nereus@nereus
/nereus:setup
Requires Node 20+ and Git. `setup` detects the external tools, installs what you approve, and writes the config file.
Flow
flowchart LR
I[intake
interview] -->|ambiguity ≤ 0.2| S[spec
tasks + done criteria]
S --> B[build
RED → GREEN → REFACTOR]
B -->|tests pass| E{"[flow] tasks?"}
E -->|yes| Q[e2e]
E -->|no| R
Q -->|pass| R[review
OCR · Codex · Gemini]
R -->|CRITICAL/HIGH = 0| F[finish
commit · archive · handoff]
R -->|findings| B
subgraph Baton [Baton — context handoff]
direction LR
W[50% warn:
finish current task] --> H[write handoff.md
commit · stop]
H --> N[/clear
auto-resumes]
end
B -. context ≥ 50% .-> W
N -. continues at same stage .-> B
Each stage calls the next when its gate passes. Day to day you only type `/nereus:intake`.
Commands
| Command | Purpose |
|---|---|
/nereus:setup |
Detect and install tools, write config, report MCP reside |
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