ralph-specum

A spec-driven development plugin for Codex, an AI coding assistant. It organizes software work into research, requirements, design, tasks, implementation, and larger feature triage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Breaking down features, writing specifications, planning tasks, implementing approved work, and coordinating larger groups of related changes.
Why use it?
It gives development work a documented sequence and keeps decisions, tasks, and progress connected across multiple features or specifications.

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 tzachbon/smart-ralph
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/tzachbon/smart-ralph/ralph-specum
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tzachbon/smart-ralph

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 6 agents cost 290 tokens a session between them.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

ralph-specum 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 3d 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/ralph-specum/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 11 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "ralph-specum",
  "version": "4.12.0",
  "description": "Spec-driven development with task-by-task execution. Research, requirements, design, tasks, autonomous implementation, and epic triage for multi-spec feature decomposition.",
  "author": {
    "name": "tzachbon"
  },
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["ralph", "spec-driven", "research", "requirements", "design", "tasks", "autonomous", "loop", "epic", "triage"]
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 6 agents travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 290 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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. 3d ago First seen · 11 lines scan A e7288ef37ee0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ralph-specum is a plugin published in the GitHub repository tzachbon/smart-ralph (527 stars, last pushed 5d 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 2026-08-30.