ralph-status

ralph-status is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jmagly/aiwg. It costs 12 tokens per session (834 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A status checker for the current or most recent Ralph agent loop, an iterative process that repeatedly works toward a task’s completion criteria. It reads the loop’s saved progress and completion reports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view current progress, the latest iteration result, detailed iteration history, or the newest completion report.
Why use it?
It shows whether a loop is active, paused, finished, or has no recorded run without opening its status files manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to view current progress, the latest iteration result, detailed iteration history, or the newest completion report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jmagly/aiwg/ralph-status
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 jmagly/aiwg --skill ralph-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmagly/aiwg

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 834 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 $0.00012 $0.00834
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00417
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00083

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6f07d3fe60b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

ralph-status 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 9d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

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

1. Delete and start fresh: rm -rf .aiwg/ralph/
agentic/code/addons/agent-loop/skills/ralph-status/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Al Status

Check the status of agent loops.

Usage

/ralph-status              # Current loop status
/ralph-status --verbose    # Detailed iteration history
/ralph-status --latest     # Show latest completion report
/ralph-status --all        # List all completion reports

Your Actions

Default (Current Loop)

  1. Read .aiwg/ralph/current-loop.json
  2. Display status summary

If active loop exists:

Agent Loop: ACTIVE

Task: {task}
Completion: {completion}
Progress: {current}/{max} iterations
Duration: {elapsed}
Status: {running | paused}

Last iteration:
  Result: {result}
  Learnings: {learnings}

Use /ralph-resume to continue or /ralph-abort to stop.

If no active loop:

No active agent loop.

Use /ralph "task" --completion "criteria" to start one.

--verbose

Include full iteration history:

Agent Loop: ACTIVE

Task: {task}
Completion: {completion}
Progress: {current}/{max} iterations

Iteration History:
| # | Time | Action | Result | Learnings |
|---|------|--------|--------|-----------|
| 1 | 10:30 | Initial attempt | 3 failures | Need auth mocks |
| 2 | 10:32 | Added mocks | 1 failure | Date edge case |
| 3 | 10:34 | Fixed date | In progress... | - |

--latest

Read and display most recent completion report:

  1. Find latest completion-*.md in .aiwg/ralph/
  2. Display contents

--all

List all completion reports:

Agent Loop History

| Date | Task | Status | Iterations |
|------|------|--------|------------|
| 2025-01-15 10:45 | Fix auth tests | SUCCESS | 3 |
| 2025-01-14 15:20 | Migrate to ESM | SUCCESS | 8 |
| 2025-01-13 09:00 | Add coverage | MAX_ITER | 10 |

View report: /ralph-status --report 2025-01-15

State File Location

  • Current loop: .aiwg/ralph/current-loop.json
  • Iterations: .aiwg/ralph/iterations/
  • Reports: .aiwg/ralph/completion-*.md

Error Handling

No state directory:

Al has not been used in this project yet.

Get started with:
  /ralph "your task" --completion "verification command"

Or:
  /ralph --interactive

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 135 lines · 12 tokens per session scan C 6f07d3fe60b7

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ralph-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository jmagly/aiwg (210 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 834 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.