What is cancel-ralph?

A command that stops an active Ralph Loop, an iterative process that repeatedly gives the same task to the coding agent while preserving earlier file changes.

Use it to check the loop state and mark the current Ralph Loop as inactive.

It lets you end the repeated work when you no longer want the loop to continue.

cancel-ralph — Command for Claude Code by vcz-Gray

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vcz-Gray/loophaus

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install loophaus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 7 commands, 1 hook.

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README.md

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Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 210 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00010	$0.00210
Opus 5	$0.00005	$0.00105
Sonnet 5	$0.00002	$0.00042
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00021

Measured 9d ago against content hash f900d9fe8a86, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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.

codex/commands/cancel-ralph.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Cancel Ralph

To cancel the Ralph loop:

Check if the state file exists at .codex/ralph-loop.state.json.
If NOT found: Say "No active Ralph loop found."

If found:

Read the state file to get currentIteration.
Set active to false by running:

node -e "
import { readState, writeState } from '${RALPH_CODEX_ROOT}/store/state-store.mjs';
const state = await readState();
const iter = state.currentIteration;
state.active = false;
await writeState(state);
console.log('Cancelled Ralph loop at iteration ' + iter);
"

Alternatively, edit .codex/ralph-loop.state.json directly and set "active": false.

Report: "Cancelled Ralph loop (was at iteration N)."

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.

9d ago First seen · 31 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A f900d9fe8a86

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cancel-ralph is a command published in the GitHub repository vcz-Gray/loophaus (23 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 210 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 2026-08-30.

cancel-ralph

Getting it into your agent

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What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

Cancel Ralph

What this file has done since we first saw it

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