cancel-ralph

cancel-ralph is a command for Claude Code from travisjneuman/.claude. It costs 7 tokens per session (223 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for stopping an active Ralph Wiggum loop, which repeatedly asks an AI coding agent to continue working on the same task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need to cancel a running Ralph loop.
Why use it?
It lets you end an ongoing automated work cycle and reports whether a loop was active and which iteration it had reached.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the ralph-wiggum plugin — 3 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when you need to cancel a running Ralph loop.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/travisjneuman/.claude/cancel-ralph
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/travisjneuman/.claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ralph-wiggum, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 commands, 1 hook.

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Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 223 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00007 $0.00223
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00112
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00022

Measured 8d ago against content hash dea1a232eb2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cancel-ralph 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 8d 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.

plugins/local/ralph-wiggum/commands/cancel-ralph.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Cancel Ralph

powershell -NoProfile -Command "if (Test-Path .claude/ralph-loop.local.md) { $content = Get-Content .claude/ralph-loop.local.md -Raw; if ($content -match 'iteration:\s*(\d+)') { Write-Host \"FOUND_LOOP=true\"; Write-Host \"ITERATION=$($matches[1])\" } } else { Write-Host 'FOUND_LOOP=false' }"

Check the output above:

  1. If FOUND_LOOP=false:

    • Say "No active Ralph loop found."
  2. If FOUND_LOOP=true:

    • Use Bash: Remove-Item .claude/ralph-loop.local.md -Force (or rm .claude/ralph-loop.local.md)
    • Report: "Cancelled Ralph loop (was at iteration N)" where N is the ITERATION value from above.
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. 8d ago First seen · 21 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A dea1a232eb2d

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cancel-ralph is a command published in the GitHub repository travisjneuman/.claude (97 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 223 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-09-03.