ratchet

A workflow add-on that turns unclear work into defined targets, checks the result critically, applies fixes, and saves progress for later.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps lock requirements, validate outputs, patch problems, serialize state, and run a limited improvement loop.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to move from an ambiguous request to a reviewed deliverable without losing the work state.

Plugin for Claude Code

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.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Megaprompting/torque-loop
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/megaprompting/torque-loop/torque-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Megaprompting/torque-loop

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

ratchet 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 31 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "ratchet",
  "displayName": "Torque Loop",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Torque Loop turns ambiguous work into shipped artifacts through target locking, adversarial validation, patching, and state serialization — plus a bounded /ratchet:evolve loop. A stateful advancement engine, not a prompt library. Not affiliated with Anthropic.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Danny Gillespie"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/Megaprompting/torque-loop",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "workflow",
    "quality",
    "validation",
    "prompts",
    "state",
    "qa",
    "decision"
  ],
  "mcpServers": {
    "torque": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": [
        "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/ratchet-mcp",
        "--root",
        "${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}"
      ]
    }
  }
}
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside plugin.json in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 31 lines scan A 4db599f95d82

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ratchet is a plugin published in the GitHub repository Megaprompting/torque-loop (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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.