ralph-specum

ralph-specum is a skill for Codex from tzachbon/smart-ralph. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,135 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow guide for using Ralph Specum in Codex, an AI coding assistant, when a user explicitly asks for it or one of its phases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running named Ralph Specum phases, resolving specifications, and coordinating the full development workflow when related helper skills are unavailable.
Why use it?
It provides one place to route Ralph Specum commands and follow the required files and workflow, including research, planning, implementation, and prototypes.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Running named Ralph Specum phases, resolving specifications, and coordinating the full development workflow when related helper skills are unavailable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tzachbon/smart-ralph/ralph-specum
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tzachbon/smart-ralph --skill ralph-specum
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tzachbon/smart-ralph

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,135 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 21
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00040 $0.02135
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01068
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00427
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00214

Measured 5d ago against content hash b67871e91405, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ralph-specum 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 5d 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.

plugins/ralph-specum-codex/skills/ralph-specum/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ralph Specum

Use this as the primary Codex surface for Ralph Specum. It carries the full reusable workflow and can handle the entire command surface directly when helper skills are not installed.

Derive RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT from this loaded skill: take the directory containing SKILL.md, then its parent skills directory, then the next parent. Never derive the plugin root from the project working directory.

Read These References

  • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/references/workflow.md" for the phase flow, branch and worktree behavior, quick mode, and command routing
  • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/references/state-contract.md" for .ralph-state.json, .progress.md, commit rules, and resume semantics
  • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/references/path-resolution.md" for specs_dirs, .current-spec, ambiguity handling, and default directory behavior
  • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/references/parity-matrix.md" for Claude-to-Codex feature translation and command mapping
  • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/references/prototype-coordinator.md" for direct, suggested, resume, quick, cancel, and prototype handoff behavior
  • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/skills/interview-framework-codex/SKILL.md" and its required algorithm and domain-modeling references for every normal-mode phase interview

Use These Helpers

  • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/resolve_spec_paths.py" for spec roots, current spec, and unique or ambiguous name resolution
  • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/merge_state.py" for safe top-level state merges
  • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/count_tasks.py" for task counts and next incomplete task
  • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/phase_gate.py" for mode, skill-load, interview, parent-delegation, and artifact-write gates
  • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/locked_state.py" for locked state and activePrototypes mutations
  • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/prototype_records.py" for reviewed immutable prototype records and downstream selection
  • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/prototype_harness.py" for bounded builder control outcomes and retry metadata
  • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/templates/" for the canonical Ralph markdown file shapes
  • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/assets/bootstrap/" when the user wants optional project-local Codex guidance

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago Changed b67871e91405
  2. 9d ago First seen · 130 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A aca0c2b81bf1

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ralph-specum is a skill published in the GitHub repository tzachbon/smart-ralph (537 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,135 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.