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flow-next-ralph-init

flow-next-ralph-init is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gmickel/flow-next. It costs 27 tokens per session (3,737 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A setup command for adding the Ralph autonomous coding harness and project hooks to a repository. It places the generated files under scripts/ralph/.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up Ralph in a repository or updating an existing repo-local Ralph installation while preserving its configuration.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of copying the harness, its helper tools, and its configuration structure into a project.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the flow-next plugin — 32 skills, 28 commands, 20 agents shipped together

not rated 691repo +1 changed yesterday C scan 27 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it when setting up Ralph in a repository or updating an existing repo-local Ralph installation while preserving its configuration.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add gmickel/flow-next
Claude Code
/plugin install flow-next

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install flow-next, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 28 commands, 20 agents.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,737 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00027 $0.03737
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01869
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00747
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00374

Measured yesterday against content hash 5c1b76be1ce3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

flow-next-ralph-init scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (templates/ralph_once.sh, templates/ralph.sh, templates/ralphctl.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf scripts/ralph/flowctl_tracker && cp -R "$PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/flowctl_tracker" scripts/ralph/flowctl_tracker
plugins/flow-next/codex/skills/flow-next-ralph-init/SKILL.md · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ralph init

Scaffold or update repo-local Ralph harness. Opt-in only.

Preamble

The plugin root resolves once via the cross-platform env-var fallback (Droid uses DROID_PLUGIN_ROOT; Claude Code documents CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT as its compat alias). Subsequent blocks use $PLUGIN_ROOT:

PLUGIN_ROOT="${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}"

Rules

  • Every write lands under scripts/ralph/ in the current repo. A file written anywhere else has broken this.
  • If scripts/ralph/ already exists, offer to update (preserves config.env).
  • Copy templates from templates/ into scripts/ralph/ (includes ralphctl.py for pause/resume/stop/status).
  • Copy flowctl, flowctl.cmd, flowctl.py, flowctl_bootstrap.py, flowctl-help.txt, and the flowctl_tracker/ package (from $PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/) and pick-python.sh (from $PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/lib/) into scripts/ralph/ — flat, so the resolver lands at scripts/ralph/pick-python.sh where ralph.sh and the hook wrapper source it. A pick-python.sh that landed under scripts/ralph/lib/ has broken this.
  • Set executable bit on scripts/ralph/ralph.sh, scripts/ralph/ralph_once.sh, scripts/ralph/flowctl, and scripts/ralph/ralphctl.py.
  • Hook registration is agent-driven skill prose only. The plugin ships no hooks by default; you (the host agent) merge the guard entries into the project's host settings via Read+Edit, idempotently, without clobbering unrelated hooks. The boundary is hard: there is no flowctl subcommand for hook install/remove/status and no hook machinery in Python. A settings file whose hooks object now holds only flow-next entries, or a hook-install subcommand added to the CLI, has broken this.

Workflow

  1. Resolve repo root: git rev-parse --show-toplevel

  2. Check if scripts/ralph/ exists:

    • If exists: ask "Update existing Ralph setup? (preserves config.env and runs/) [y/n]"
      • If no: stop
      • If yes: set UPDATE_MODE=1
    • If not exists: set UPDATE_MODE=0

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 files beside SKILL.md 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 Changed · +3 lines 5c1b76be1ce3
  2. 7d ago First seen · 222 lines · 27 tokens per session scan C 79fe67753bbe

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flow-next-ralph-init is a skill published in the GitHub repository gmickel/flow-next (691 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 3,737 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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