ralph-specum-help

ralph-specum-help is a skill for Codex from tzachbon/smart-ralph. It costs 41 tokens per session (767 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A help skill for Ralph Specum, a set of commands for moving software work from research and requirements through design, task planning, implementation, and status tracking.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need guidance on Ralph Specum commands, quick or interactive mode, prototypes, large efforts, switching or cancelling work, or checking status.
Why use it?
It explains which Ralph Specum command fits each phase and how its specification files and state are organized.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it when you need guidance on Ralph Specum commands, quick or interactive mode, prototypes, large efforts, switching or cancelling work, or checking status.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tzachbon/smart-ralph/ralph-specum-help
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 tzachbon/smart-ralph --skill ralph-specum-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tzachbon/smart-ralph

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 767 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 $0.00041 $0.00767
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00383
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00077

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0577d826cbb6, 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-help 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.

plugins/ralph-specum-codex/skills/ralph-specum-help/SKILL.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ralph Specum Help

Use this to explain the Ralph Specum surface in Codex.

Cover

  • Primary skill: $ralph-specum
  • Helper skills: $ralph-specum-start, $ralph-specum-triage, $ralph-specum-research, $ralph-specum-requirements, $ralph-specum-design, $ralph-specum-tasks, $ralph-specum-prototype, $ralph-specum-implement, $ralph-specum-status, $ralph-specum-switch, $ralph-specum-cancel, $ralph-specum-index, $ralph-specum-refactor, $ralph-specum-feedback, $ralph-specum-help
  • Normal flow: start goal grill, approval, research, artifact approval, requirements grill, approval, design grill, approval, tasks grill, approval, implement
  • Large effort flow: triage, then start each unblocked spec
  • Quick mode: only exact --quick bypasses interview questions; exact --interactive clears it. Discovery, skill loads, and artifact write gates still run
  • Disk contract: ./specs or configured roots, .current-spec, optional .current-epic, per-spec markdown files, .ralph-state.json

Optional Prototype Overlay

  • Direct mode: invoke $ralph-specum-prototype from research, requirements, design, tasks, or execution. Preserve the main phase and current checkout.
  • Suggested mode: research or requirements may offer continue to prototype, then return to the next normal phase.
  • Resume mode: use $ralph-specum-prototype --resume <id>. One active entry resumes automatically; several are listed deterministically for selection.
  • Quick mode: run exactly one agent-owned request after requirements, ask no prototype questions, take over the oldest design blocker or select the highest-risk grounded, falsifiable question when no blocker exists, own verdict and handoff decisions, and continue to design for every result.
  • Cancel mode: use $ralph-specum-prototype --cancel <id> or safe spec cancellation. Stop at a safe boundary, publish a reviewed immutable cancelled record, and preserve source and partial implementation.

Store terminal records under the resolved <basePath>/prototypes/. Run source work in a sibling worktree or eligible scratch area without switching the current checkout or copying unapproved dirty paths. Keep source, evidence, records, and branches local. Require separate authorization for every push, PR or issue change, and other remote action. Require exact-path and local-branch confirmation before local deletion; never delete a remote branch during prototype cleanup.

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 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. 9d ago First seen · 41 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 0577d826cbb6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ralph-specum-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository tzachbon/smart-ralph (537 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 767 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.