ralph-specum-prototype

ralph-specum-prototype is a skill for Codex from tzachbon/smart-ralph. It costs 49 tokens per session (538 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordinator for an optional Ralph Specum prototype, an early implementation used to explore a feature before the main workflow continues. It manages the prototype's records, isolation, review, and handoff.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start, resume, run quickly, review, publish, or cancel an optional prototype linked to a Ralph Specum specification.
Why use it?
It allows an exploratory prototype to be run without changing the main feature phase prematurely. It also makes resuming, reviewing, or cancelling the prototype explicit.

Skill for Codex

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

Good fit Use it to start, resume, run quickly, review, publish, or cancel an optional prototype linked to a Ralph Specum specification.

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

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 538 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 $0.00049 $0.00538
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00269
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00054

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7cf8d8f175fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ralph-specum-prototype 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 8d 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-prototype/SKILL.md · 34 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 34 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ralph Specum Prototype

Coordinate one optional prototype overlay. Delegate source work to a child agent and keep the main Ralph phase unchanged until the recorded handoff.

Load the contract

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 ../../references/prototype-coordinator.md from this skill directory completely before any prototype mutation. Treat it as the source of truth for direct, suggested, resume, quick, cancel, isolation, review, publication, and handoff behavior.

Route the request

  1. Resolve an explicit path, exact spec name, or .current-spec with "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/resolve_spec_paths.py". Use only the returned basePath, specRoot, settings, and warnings.
  2. Parse one mode: direct by default, suggested with a return phase, resume by ID, quick, or cancel by ID.
  3. Reconcile candidate and final records before reserving, resuming, reviewing, or publishing.
  4. Use only these mechanics:
    • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/locked_state.py" for activePrototypes and every state mutation
    • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/prototype_records.py" for exact candidate bytes, review receipts, immutable publication, reconciliation, and downstream selection
    • "$RALPH_CODEX_PLUGIN_ROOT/scripts/prototype_harness.py" for deterministic control outcomes and retry metadata
  5. Spawn internal builders with child-agent tools. Store only the returned agentId; wait with wait_agent and stop with interrupt_agent. Never use create_thread or a threadId for an internal builder.
  6. Keep normal capture, dirty-path transfer, verdict, handoff, deletion, and remote actions under explicit user control. Let quick mode own its bounded choices and continue to design after every terminal outcome.

Completion gate

Finish only after the coordinator contract verifies the immutable final bytes, removes the active entry through the locked helper, applies stale and handoff gates, and reports the local source disposition. Keep every remote pointer pending until the user authorizes that exact remote write.

Read the full file on GitHub · 34 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. 8d ago First seen · 34 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 7cf8d8f175fb

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ralph-specum-prototype is a skill published in the GitHub repository tzachbon/smart-ralph (535 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 538 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.