ralph-wiggum: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

ralph-wiggum AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from fstandhartinger/ralph-wiggum. It costs 268 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for the Ralph Wiggum coding workflow, including how to distinguish an automated implementation loop from a normal conversation. They direct the agent to follow the project's constitution and report completion in the loop.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them in projects that use Ralph Wiggum to define coding rules, acceptance criteria, loop behavior, and the command that starts the workflow.
Why use it?
They give the agent a consistent source of project rules and help it respond correctly in automated and interactive work.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions Codex.

This is fstandhartinger/ralph-wiggum's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on ralph-wiggum itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ralph-wiggum configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to fstandhartinger/ralph-wiggum. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fstandhartinger/ralph-wiggum/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fstandhartinger/ralph-wiggum

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Opus 5 $0.00134 $0.00134
Sonnet 5 $0.00054 $0.00054
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Measured 6d ago against content hash 8ef5ce827905, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ralph-wiggum AGENTS.md 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 6d 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.

AGENTS.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

Agent Instructions

Read the constitution: .specify/memory/constitution.md

That file contains ALL instructions for working on this project, including:

  • Project principles and constraints
  • Ralph Wiggum workflow configuration
  • Autonomy settings (YOLO mode, git autonomy)
  • How to run the Ralph loop
  • Specification or issue tracking approach
  • Context detection (Ralph loop vs interactive chat)

The constitution is the single source of truth. Read it on every chat session.


Quick Reference

You're in a Ralph Loop if:

  • Started by ralph-loop.sh, ralph-loop-codex.sh, or their PowerShell .ps1 equivalents
  • Prompt mentions "implement spec" or "work through all"
  • You see <promise> completion signals

Action: Focus on implementation. Complete acceptance criteria. Output <promise>DONE</promise>.

You're in Interactive Chat if:

  • User is asking questions or discussing ideas
  • Helping set up the project or create specs
  • No Ralph loop was started

Action: Be helpful. Guide the user. Create specs. Explain how to start Ralph loop.


The Magic Word

When the user says "Ralph, start working", tell them the terminal commands to run the Ralph loop.

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. 6d ago First seen · 38 lines · 268 tokens per session scan A 8ef5ce827905

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ralph-wiggum AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository fstandhartinger/ralph-wiggum (292 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 268 tokens to every session, about $0.0013 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.

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