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setup-ralph-dtd from nova-violet-role/rot-dtd-commander is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add nova-violet-role/rot-dtd-commander/setup-ralph-dtd@git:20260916.b7506d7

Pins git:20260916.b7506d7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: nova-violet-role/rot-dtd-commander
Path: src/skills/setup-ralph-dtd/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 4
Latest version: git:20260916.b7506d7, committed Sep 16, 2026
First version recorded: Sep 2, 2026
Size: 6,951 bytes
Repository stars: 3
License: AGPL-3.0

Set up and configure Geoffrey Huntley's original Ralph Wiggum autonomous coding loop in any directory with proper structure, prompts, and backpressure. Carries its own DOCTYPE: a declared output grammar, a trust boundary and laws the checker enforces.

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

<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: (AGPL-3.0-or-later OR EUPL-1.2) AND MIT -->
<!-- Copyright 2026 Saimonokuma. -->
<!-- Portions Copyright 2025 Lex Christopherson, MIT (taches-cc-resources); see NOTICE.md. -->
<!-- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Lex Christopherson (taches-cc-resources, MIT) -->

<!DOCTYPE ralph_setup [
  <!ENTITY % cc-core SYSTEM "../../../dtd/cc-core.dtd">
  %cc-core;
  <!ENTITY % cc-ask SYSTEM "../../../dtd/cc-ask.dtd">
  %cc-ask;
  <!ENTITY % cc-cache SYSTEM "../../../dtd/cc-cache.dtd">
  %cc-cache;
  <!ELEMENT ralph_setup (directory, prompt_file+, backpressure+, loop)>
  <!ELEMENT directory (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT prompt_file (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT backpressure (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT loop (#PCDATA)>
  <!ATTLIST backpressure kind (test|lint|build|typecheck) #REQUIRED>
  <!ENTITY LAW.RALPH.1 "At least one backpressure check exists and was shown to fail on a deliberately broken file before the loop is declared ready.">
  <!ENTITY LAW.RALPH.2 "IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md is state on disk, read fresh each iteration, never carried in context.">
]>

<trust_boundary>
Declared in the DOCTYPE above and binding for this run:
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add nova-violet-role/rot-dtd-commander/setup-ralph-dtd@sha256:021105d43b52ac94

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.b7506d7, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_efh5jvijpyeyv6wm.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_efh5jvijpyeyv6wm)

1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 2, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 5 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260916.b7506d7 latest	2026-09-16	b7506d7	6,951 B	A	view · diff
git:20260907.f163678	2026-09-07	f163678	6,814 B	A	view · diff
git:20260902.622f086	2026-09-02	622f086	6,720 B	A	view · diff
git:20260902.0a9600a	2026-09-02	0a9600a	6,718 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6951 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

GitHub

nova-violet-role/rot-dtd-commander · 3 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_efh5jvijpyeyv6wm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nova-violet-role/rot-dtd-commander/setup-ralph-dtd
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/021105d43b52ac944123bf670452fd605c892825497acf6bba2b2e404a59efee

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