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Integrate Nx with your Coding Assistant

AI coding assistants often hallucinate outdated Nx commands and lack context about your workspace structure. Without workspace awareness, they suggest commands that don't exist or miss project relationships entirely.

Nx's AI integration gives assistants accurate, real-time information about your workspace, projects, and available commands—making them smarter when working in an Nx monorepo and more autonomous when iterating on CI failures.

Configure Nx AI Integration

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Automatic AI Setup

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To automatically configure your Nx monorepo to work best with AI agents and assistants, run the following command:

Terminal window
npx nx configure-ai-agents

This will prompt you for which AI agents/assistants to configure and set up the Nx MCP server (Model Context Protocol—a standard for giving AI assistants tool access), AI agent configuration files (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, etc.), and agent skills. For Claude Code, skills are installed via a plugin; for other agents, they're copied into your workspace.

Alternatively, you can install just the skills via:

Terminal window
npx skills add nrwl/nx-ai-agents-config

This copies the skills into your workspace but does not install the Claude Code plugin.

Watch our Youtube video for a full walkthrough.

What This Integration Enables

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The Nx AI integration provides your coding assistant with powerful capabilities:

  • Workspace Understanding - Graph-aware exploration of project dependencies and relationships. AI gets structured data instead of grepping through files.
  • Real-time Terminal Integration - AI can read your terminal output, running processes, and error messages without copy-pasting.
  • Reliable Code Generation - AI invokes Nx generators for predictable scaffolding, then adapts the result to your workspace. Faster, standardized, fewer hallucinations.
  • Autonomous CI Workflows - The CI monitor skill bridges your local agent with Nx Cloud. Push, monitor, get failures, fix, repeat until CI is green. Enables autonomous CI workflows ("Ralph Wiggum loop")—you review the final PR, not every intermediate fix.
  • Cross-project Impact Analysis - Understanding the implications of changes across your entire monorepo.

Configure CI to Leverage AI Capabilities

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Nx also integrates AI directly into your CI runs to automatically detect failed tasks, analyze the errors, and propose fixes that can be reviewed and applied directly to your PR.

Read more on the Self-Healing CI docs page.

Learn More about Nx and AI

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