promote

promote is a command for coding agents from develo-pera/ralph-kit. It costs 25 tokens per session (458 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for moving selected unchecked tasks from a Ralph backlog into its execution plan. A backlog is a list of work not yet scheduled.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps review backlog items, choose several at once, and move them atomically into the plan's high-priority section.
Why use it?
It prevents tasks from being copied inconsistently and stops promotion when the execution plan is missing or blocked.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/develo-pera/ralph-kit/promote
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/develo-pera/ralph-kit

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 458 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00025 $0.00458
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00229
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00046

Measured 4d ago against content hash 332de39a78c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

promote scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/promote.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

/ralph-kit:promote

Move unchecked items from .ralph/backlog.md into .ralph/fix_plan.md under ## High Priority, atomically.

Flow

  1. Read .ralph/backlog.md. If it doesn't exist or has no unchecked items, tell the user "Backlog is empty — nothing to promote" and stop.

  2. Read .ralph/fix_plan.md. If it's missing or starts with Status: BLOCKED, stop and recommend /ralph-kit:define first.

  3. Build a list of all unchecked backlog items (across groups). Present them via AskUserQuestion with multiSelect: true so the user can pick any combination.

  4. For each picked item, run the equivalent of ralph-kit's promoteToTodo(cwd, text) — which moves the item from backlog to fix_plan.md ## High Priority in an atomic paired write. You can either call the helper via a short Node one-liner:

    node -e "require('ralph-kit/lib/promote').promoteToTodo(process.cwd(), process.argv[1])" "<task text>"
    

    …or perform the edit yourself: remove the line from backlog.md and append - [ ] <text> under ## High Priority in fix_plan.md, then write both files.

  5. Confirm: ✓ Promoted N item(s) to fix_plan.md ## High Priority.

Guardrails

  • Never promote a task that's already - [x] — it's done.
  • Never modify any other section of either file.
  • If a task with identical text already exists in fix_plan.md, warn the user and ask whether to skip or duplicate.
  • If the user cancels mid-selection, write nothing.
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 32 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 332de39a78c7

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promote is a command published in the GitHub repository develo-pera/ralph-kit (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 458 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.