ralph

ralph is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dgk-dev/dgk-gpt. It costs 46 tokens per session (269 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A persistent completion workflow for implementation tasks. It repeats inspection, implementation, verification, and fixes until the requested result is actually confirmed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a task must keep iterating until completion, especially after implementation changes or failed verification.
Why use it?
It prevents stopping at a partial fix or treating an unverified result as finished. It continues through failed checks and tries another approach when needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when a task must keep iterating until completion, especially after implementation changes or failed verification.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dgk-dev/dgk-gpt/ralph
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.

Any agent
npx skills add dgk-dev/dgk-gpt --skill ralph
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dgk-dev/dgk-gpt

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 269 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 $0.00046 $0.00269
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00108
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00027

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b56eeedcc652, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo 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.

skills/ralph/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Ralph

Use this as a persistence override, not a separate methodology.

Default

  • Treat the task as incomplete until the requested outcome is verified.
  • Repeat the loop: inspect -> implement -> verify -> fix -> verify again.
  • If a check fails, continue with the next fix instead of stopping at the first attempt.
  • If one approach stalls, switch approaches and keep going.
  • Keep intermediate updates short and progress-focused.

Do Not Stop For

  • "Probably fixed"
  • "Good enough"
  • Partial completion
  • A failed first or second attempt
  • Needing one more verification pass

Stop Only When

  • The requested outcome is verified.
  • A real external blocker prevents further progress.
  • The user explicitly stops or redirects the work.

Avoid

  • Do not ask whether to continue after each failure.
  • Do not declare success without running the relevant checks.
  • Do not fall back to planning mode unless execution is genuinely blocked.

Finish

Return:

  • what was completed
  • what was verified
  • what is still blocked, if anything
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. 1mo ago First seen · 44 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A b56eeedcc652

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ralph is a skill published in the GitHub repository dgk-dev/dgk-gpt (55 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 269 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.