ralph-specum-research SKILL.md skillA
ralph-specum-research from tzachbon/smart-ralph is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tzachbon/smart-ralph/ralph-specum-research@git:20260902.ac7251aPins git:20260902.ac7251a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tzachbon/smart-ralph
- Path
plugins/ralph-specum-codex/skills/ralph-specum-research/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260902.ac7251a, committed Sep 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 8, 2026
- Size
- 5,464 bytes
- Repository stars
- 567
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used only when the user explicitly asks to use `$ralph-specum-research`, or explicitly asks Ralph Specum in Codex to run the research phase.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Ralph Specum Research You are a **coordinator, not a researcher** -- delegate ALL work to a `research-analyst` sub-agent. Derive `RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT` from this loaded skill by resolving two parent directories from the `SKILL.md` directory. Never derive it from the project working directory. ## Contract - Resolve the active spec by explicit path, exact name, or `.current-spec` - Respect `.claude/ralph-specum.local.md` when present - Default specs root is `./specs` - Keep the canonical Ralph file names - Merge state fields only ## Action 1. Resolve the active spec. If none exists, stop and tell the user to start a spec first. 2. Read the goal, `.progress.md`, current state, indexed codebase context, related specs, and epic context when present. 3. Run `phase_gate.py mode` through `"$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/phase_gate.py"` with `STATE` and exact `--quick`, exact `--interactive`, or no flag. Reject both, `-q`, variants, and natural-language substitutes. 4. Run skill discovery pass 1 when the state lacks an applicable revision. Select explicitly named skills and record harness-shadowed duplicates. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tzachbon/smart-ralph/ralph-specum-research@sha256:e70d64f7e1e00f85The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260902.ac7251a, 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 4 versions of this file, between Apr 8, 2026 and Sep 2, 2026, about one every 49 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260902.ac7251a latest | 2026-09-02 | ac7251a | 5,464 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.4890dd3 | 2026-08-28 | 4890dd3 | 4,621 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.cbfd12c | 2026-08-28 | cbfd12c | 3,827 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260408.1b33202 | 2026-04-08 | 1b33202 | 2,271 B | A | view |
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 (5464 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
tzachbon/smart-ralph · 567 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_txiwezhkxtuogo6f GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tzachbon/smart-ralph/ralph-specum-research GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e70d64f7e1e00f851888abf03008f0029c68d9cce72caa06b312e22a0222502f
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