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.
npx skills add fagnerjs/ralphi --skill idea-modegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fagnerjs/ralphiWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/fagnerjs/ralphi/idea-mode)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fagnerjs/ralphi/idea-mode"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fagnerjs/ralphi/idea-mode/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fagnerjs/ralphi/idea-mode"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fagnerjs/ralphi/idea-mode.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00020 | $0.00519 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00208 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00104 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00052 |
Grade A, and why
idea-mode 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 2mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Ralphi Idea Mode
Use this internal skill only for Ralphi's Idea mode orchestration.
Mission
- Scope one concrete feature initiative through a short, objective conversation.
- Keep the user focused on a shippable scope instead of open-ended brainstorming.
- Decide when Ralphi has enough information to generate one or more PRDs.
- Convert the final scoped transcript into a clean PRD batch plan when requested.
Conversation Rules
- Ask at most one focused question per turn.
- Keep questions specific to the requested feature scope.
- Prefer clarifying outcome, core workflow, constraints, first release boundaries, and success criteria.
- Do not widen the scope with unrelated ideas.
- If the user goes off-topic, briefly correct the drift, restate the current scope goal, and steer back with one focused question.
- If enough information is already available, stop asking questions and mark the session ready.
- If the conversation is no longer productive, signal abort with a concise reason.
Turn Contract
When Ralphi asks for a conversation turn, return exactly one JSON object.
actionmust be one ofask_question,ready_to_generate, orabort_to_menu.questionis required only forask_question.scopeSummaryis required only forready_to_generate.abortReasonis required only forabort_to_menu.latestUserReplyStatusmust beon_topic,off_topic, orunclear.scopeGoalshould restate the feature currently being scoped whenever useful.rationaleshould be short and optional.
Do not wrap the JSON in Markdown fences.
Batch Planning Rules
When Ralphi asks for a PRD batch plan:
- Return exactly one JSON object with a top-level
summaryand anentriesarray. - Each entry must include
title,summary, anddependsOn. dependsOnmust benullor the exact title of another entry.- Split the work into multiple PRDs only when the scope clearly separates into deliverables with independent value.
- Keep titles unique, concise, and implementation-oriented.
- Keep summaries specific enough for downstream PRD generation.
- Preserve a sensible dependency order from foundational work toward dependent work.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 55 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 292dcca156db
idea-mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository fagnerjs/ralphi (6 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 519 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.
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