setup-ralph-loop SKILL.md skillA
setup-ralph-loop from chrislacey89/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/setup-ralph-loop@git:20261105.01fdd6ePins git:20261105.01fdd6e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chrislacey89/skills
- Path
setup-ralph-loop/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 8
- Latest version
- git:20261105.01fdd6e, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 14, 2026
- Size
- 12,219 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Infrastructure skill for setting up Ralph loop scripts for Claude-driven AFK execution. Use when a repo wants a HITL-to-AFK runner around /execute with bounded iterations, GitHub-native durable state, and explicit feedback loops. Not a normal feature-delivery stage; it prepares the repo for safer autonomous execution.
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
# Setup Ralph Loop Create the local scripts and repo conventions needed to run Ralph safely. ## Invocation Position This is an infrastructure skill, not a normal feature-delivery stage. Use `/setup-ralph-loop` when a project wants to run `/execute` in a repeatable HITL-to-AFK loop. **Auto-invocation:** `/execute` automatically invokes this skill when it detects multi-slice GitHub-issue work (PRD, big-batch appetite, or multiple user stories) and no `ralph-once.sh` or `ralph.sh` exists in the repo root. This means the skill may be entered without the user explicitly calling it — the detection and invocation happen as a prerequisite step inside `/execute`. Do not use it as part of the default feature pipeline. It prepares the repo so later `/execute` execution can run under Ralph with bounded iterations, explicit feedback loops, and durable GitHub-backed state. ## What This Sets Up - **`ralph-once.sh`** for one-iteration HITL Ralph - **`ralph.sh`** for bounded AFK Ralph runs - **Optional package.json scripts** for convenient invocation - **Repo-local loop prompts** that tell Ralph to prefer the highest-risk unblocked slice, run feedback loops, and stop when work is done …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add chrislacey89/skills/setup-ralph-loop@sha256:1fb9b22b9ba85814The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.01fdd6e, 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 8 versions of this file, between Apr 14, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 29 days.
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| git:20261105.01fdd6e latest | 2026-11-05 | 01fdd6e | 12,219 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261030.b6b4468 | 2026-10-30 | b6b4468 | 12,213 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261030.f84cc01 | 2026-10-30 | f84cc01 | 11,446 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.b7ee27c | 2026-08-12 | b7ee27c | 11,195 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260807.df7306c | 2026-08-07 | df7306c | 11,068 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.acdad8f | 2026-08-04 | acdad8f | 10,200 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260424.de3ec9f | 2026-04-24 | de3ec9f | 7,886 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260414.0a69e39 | 2026-04-14 | 0a69e39 | 7,842 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
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Source
chrislacey89/skills · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch prod
API
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