ralph-loop-help SKILL.md skillA
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ralph-loop-help from barbieri/local-openfinance is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add barbieri/local-openfinance/ralph-loop-help@git:20260909.1e5ab42Pins git:20260909.1e5ab42 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- barbieri/local-openfinance
- Path
.agents/skills/ralph-loop-help/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260909.1e5ab42, committed Sep 9, 2026
- Size
- 2,498 bytes
- Repository stars
- 24
- License
- GPL-3.0
Explain the Ralph Loop plugin, how it works, and available skills. Use when the user asks for help with ralph loop, wants to understand the technique, or needs usage examples.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Ralph Loop Help ## Trigger The user asks what Ralph Loop is, how it works, or needs usage guidance. ## What to Explain ### What is Ralph Loop? Ralph Loop implements the Ralph Wiggum technique — an iterative development methodology based on continuous AI loops, pioneered by Geoffrey Huntley. Core concept: the same prompt is fed to the agent repeatedly. The "self-referential" aspect comes from the agent seeing its own previous work in the files and git history, not from feeding output back as input. Each iteration: 1. The agent receives the SAME prompt 2. Works on the task, modifying files 3. Tries to exit 4. Stop hook intercepts and feeds the same prompt again 5. The agent sees its previous work in the files 6. Iteratively improves until completion ### Starting a Ralph Loop Tell the agent your task along with options: ``` Start a ralph loop: "Build a REST API for todos" --max-iterations 20 --completion-promise "COMPLETE" ``` Options: - `--max-iterations N` — max iterations before auto-stop - `--completion-promise "TEXT"` — phrase to signal completion How it works: 1. Creates `.cursor/ralph/scratchpad.md` state file 2. Agent works on the task …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add barbieri/local-openfinance/ralph-loop-help@sha256:a33a6719a95002f2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260909.1e5ab42, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 9, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2498 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
barbieri/local-openfinance · 24 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_boyfugdwtgoggl4w GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=barbieri/local-openfinance/ralph-loop-help GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a33a6719a95002f2c2bebf1f63a965954ee166130da17fdf514d719bb394ac65
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