ralphctl-iterative-review

ralphctl-iterative-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lukas-grigis/ralphctl. It costs 73 tokens per session (772 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A work method for checking AI-generated plans, code, and other output repeatedly during a task. It treats each meaningful change as a point for review rather than waiting until the end.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when refining requirements, planning implementation tasks, or making code changes that should be checked after each significant step.
Why use it?
It helps catch unclear requirements, incorrect task dependencies, and code problems while they are still small. Checks can include linting, type checking, and tests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when refining requirements, planning implementation tasks, or making code changes that should be checked after each significant step.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lukas-grigis/ralphctl/ralphctl-iterative-review
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add lukas-grigis/ralphctl --skill ralphctl-iterative-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lukas-grigis/ralphctl

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 772 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00073 $0.00772
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00386
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00077

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6b3d9091259d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ralphctl-iterative-review 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 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.

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.

src/integration/ai/skills/bundled/ralphctl-iterative-review/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Iterative Review

Concept

from SPDD (Zhang & Xia, martinfowler.com) — "Iterative Review". Adapted for ralphctl's three phases.

One-shot generation looks fast and is slow. The cheap review you skipped at iteration N becomes the expensive unwind at iteration N+5, when a regression that lived undetected through five steps surfaces only at the post-task gate. Catching a problem at the seam between two changes is cheap; catching it at the end of a 200-line diff is not. The harness's check gate, the evaluator, and the review prompts are this loop in deployed form — but the same posture also belongs inside each phase's work.

When this applies

  • Refine — re-read the drafted criteria once against the ticket before sending. Strike duplicates; tighten "should" / "ideally" into checkable predicates. Cheap to do here, expensive once planning splits tasks against the unclear version.
  • Plan — re-read the generated task list against the requirements. Are the tasks independently shippable? Do dependencies match the actual data flow? Reorder, merge, or drop before importing.
  • Execute — run the project's check gate (lint, typecheck, tests) after each meaningful change, not after the whole diff. Re-read your own diff once before signalling <task-complete>. You are the cheapest reviewer the change ever gets.

What to do

  1. Run the cheapest check first, often. Lint, typecheck, narrow test runs — not the full suite — after each meaningful change. The point is to catch the regression at the seam, not to certify completion.
  2. Re-read your own output once before submitting. Whether it is criteria, tasks, or a diff, the second read catches what the first one missed. Cheap.
  3. Treat the check gate as a loop, not a finish line. A failing gate is feedback, not a verdict. Apply the fix and re-run; do not signal completion against a red gate.
  4. When a fix attempt repeats the same failure, escalate rather than retry. Two iterations of the same error is a plateau — the next fix is a guess. Surface the blocker via <task-blocked> or <note> rather than burning the budget.

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 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 · 52 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 6b3d9091259d

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ralphctl-iterative-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository lukas-grigis/ralphctl (23 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 772 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 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.

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