What it does

Relay is a structured workflow for building software with AI coding command-line tools. It creates a .relay/ directory in your project that holds issues, feature designs, plans, reviews and archived resolutions as markdown, so the history lives in files rather than in any one chat or model. The workflow is delivered as 21 skills run as /relay-* commands. They cover scanning a codebase for bugs, gaps and dead code, brainstorming and designing features, ordering the backlog by dependency and severity, then analyzing, planning, reviewing, implementing, verifying and resolving each item. An auto mode can walk the pipeline across items with one isolated agent per item. Because the files are shared, you can start in one tool and continue in another; the README names Claude Code, OpenAI Codex CLI and Google Gemini CLI. Setup is an npx install followed by /relay-setup inside your AI CLI. The repository page shows an MIT licence and no pricing.

Capabilities

21 skills spanning discovery, design, planning, review, implementation and verification
A .relay/ folder that keeps decisions and progress between sessions
Works across Claude Code, Codex CLI and Gemini CLI
Automated issue discovery that logs each finding as a file
Adversarial plan review and post-implementation verification
Auto mode that runs the pipeline across prioritized items

When to use it

Long, multi-session projects where AI tools keep forgetting earlier decisions
Switching between Claude, Codex and Gemini without losing the plan
Turning a codebase scan into a prioritized, tracked backlog