Developers

Ritual lives inside your coding agent. Set it up once, then drive everything with a handful of commands.

Set up once

npm install -g @ritualai/cli
cd ~/your-project
ritual init

Then restart your coding agent. That’s it — full walkthrough in Getting started with the CLI.

The commands that matter

Inside your agent, after setup:

Command	What it does
/ritual build <feature>	The full planning loop — job → scope → discovery → recommendations → build brief → implementation. Start here.
/ritual resume	Pick up a paused build exactly where you left off
/ritual context-pulse <ask>	Score how ready a feature ask is before building
/ritual lineage <file>	What decisions and explorations shaped this file?

In your terminal, when something needs checking:

Command	What it does
ritual doctor	Diagnose credentials, MCP connection, agent detection
ritual status --watch	Live progress of the current build run
ritual graph status	What the workspace knowledge graph remembers

Try it

/ritual build Add an AI assistant to the product

The agent pauses where your judgment is needed — picking sub-problems, answering discovery questions, accepting recommendations — and hands your coding agent an implementation-ready brief at the end.

Go deeper

Supported coding agents

Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Kiro, Gemini CLI, VS Code (Copilot), Codex. ritual init auto-detects what’s installed and configures each one.