ralph-status

ralph-status is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents. It costs 62 tokens per session (2,557 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured progress report for autonomous coding loops, recording completed tasks, changed files, test results, work type, blockers, and whether the loop should stop.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the end of an autonomous iteration or build phase to produce machine-readable status information for monitoring.
Why use it?
It makes repeated automated work easier to monitor and gives software a consistent format for checking progress and exit conditions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it at the end of an autonomous iteration or build phase to produce machine-readable status information for monitoring.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pixel-process-ug/superkit-agents/ralph-status
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents --skill ralph-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,557 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 $0.00062 $0.02557
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.01023
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00511
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00256

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1144fd2c6505, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ralph-status 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.

templates/skills/ralph-status/SKILL.md · 313 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 313 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ralph Status Reporting

Overview

The Ralph status block is a structured, machine-parseable progress report included at the end of every autonomous loop iteration. It enables automated monitoring, exit detection, and progress tracking. The format is rigid and must be followed exactly — machine parsing depends on consistent structure.

Announce at start: "Producing RALPH_STATUS block for this iteration."

Trigger Conditions

  • End of every autonomous loop iteration (mandatory)
  • After BUILD phase completes in the autonomous loop
  • When monitoring systems need progress data
  • When exit gate evaluation is needed
  • When the autonomous-loop skill invokes this skill

Phase 1: Data Collection

Goal: Gather all metrics needed for the status block.

  1. Count tasks completed in this iteration
  2. Count files modified (created, edited, deleted)
  3. Run the test suite and record result
  4. Determine the primary work type
  5. Check for blockers or issues

Metric Collection Table

Metric How to Determine Example
TASKS_COMPLETED_THIS_LOOP Count tasks marked complete this iteration 1
FILES_MODIFIED Count files changed via git diff or tracking 3
TESTS_STATUS Run test suite, record overall result PASSING
WORK_TYPE Categorize the primary activity IMPLEMENTATION
Blockers Check if any task was unable to proceed None

Work Type Classification

Work Type When to Use
IMPLEMENTATION New code written (features, endpoints, services)
TESTING Primary activity was writing or fixing tests
DOCUMENTATION Primary activity was docs, specs, or comments
REFACTORING Primary activity was restructuring without behavior change

STOP — Do NOT proceed to Phase 2 until:

  • All metrics are collected
  • Test suite has been run (not assumed)
  • Work type is determined

Phase 2: STATUS Evaluation

Goal: Determine the correct STATUS value based on iteration outcome.

Read the full file on GitHub · 313 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. 1mo ago First seen · 313 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 1144fd2c6505

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ralph-status is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pixel-Process-UG/superkit-agents (3 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 2,557 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 2026-09-03.