Nx Run Tasks

If you're working in an Nx monorepo, this handles the grunt work of running tasks across your workspace. It covers the essentials: single project tasks with `nx run`, bulk operations with `run-many`, and the affected command for running tests only on changed code and its dependents. The skill knows to check your package manager, can filter by project patterns or tags, and understands useful flags like skipping cache or stopping on first failure. Honestly most valuable for the affected workflows in CI, where you want to avoid rebuilding everything when you've only touched one library. It also reminds you to check `nx show project` to see what tasks are actually available, including inferred ones from plugins.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add nrwl/nx-ai-agents-config --skill nx-run-tasks --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

You can run tasks with Nx in the following way.

Keep in mind that you might have to prefix things with npx/pnpx/yarn if the user doesn't have nx installed globally. Look at the package.json or lockfile to determine which package manager is in use.

For more details on any command, run it with --help (e.g. nx run-many --help, nx affected --help).

Understand which tasks can be run

You can check those via nx show project <projectname> --json, for example nx show project myapp --json. It contains a targets section which has information about targets that can be run. You can also just look at the package.json scripts or project.json targets, but you might miss out on inferred tasks by Nx plugins.

Run a single task

nx run <project>:<task>

where project is the project name defined in package.json or project.json (if present).

Run multiple tasks

nx run-many -t build test lint typecheck

You can pass a -p flag to filter to specific projects, otherwise it runs on all projects. You can also use --exclude to exclude projects, and --parallel to control the number of parallel processes (default is 3).

Examples:

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