ralphex-plan

ralphex-plan is a skill for Claude Code from umputun/ralphex. It costs 9 tokens per session (2,831 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A planning guide that helps turn a development request into a structured implementation plan saved in a docs/plans folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan feature work, bug fixes, refactoring, and migrations before coding. It also checks whether the ralphex command-line tool is installed for carrying out the plan.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to work out the coding steps from scratch and records the plan in a consistent format.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the ralphex plugin — 4 skills shipped together

About the project

ralphex is a command-line tool that runs coding agents through implementation plans, executing repository tasks autonomously in separate sessions. It is intended for developers who want long-running features implemented, validated, reviewed, and committed with less interactive supervision.

umputun/ralphex · 1,477 stars · on GitHub · ralphex.com

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/umputun/ralphex/ralphex-plan
Any agent
npx skills add umputun/ralphex --skill ralphex-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/umputun/ralphex

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ralphex, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 9 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,831 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00009 $0.02831
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.01416
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00566
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00283

Measured 6d ago against content hash 683b69b3bd33, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

ralphex-plan scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 6d 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- Task structure guidelines: - Each task = ONE logical unit (one function, one endpoint, one component) - Use specific descriptive names, not generic "[Core Logic]" or "[Implementation]" - Aim for ~5 checkboxes per ta
assets/claude/skills/ralphex-plan/SKILL.md · 315 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 315 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Implementation Plan Creation

Create an implementation plan in docs/plans/YYYYMMDD-<task-name>.md with interactive context gathering.

Prerequisites: Verify CLI Installation

Check if ralphex CLI is installed (needed to execute the plan after creation):

which ralphex

If not found, inform user they'll need it to execute the plan:

Proceed with plan creation regardless, but remind user to install before execution.

Step 0: Parse Intent and Gather Context

Before asking questions, understand what the user is working on:

  1. Parse user's command arguments to identify intent:

    • "add feature Z" / "implement W" → feature development
    • "fix bug" / "debug issue" → bug fix plan
    • "refactor X" / "improve Y" → refactoring plan
    • "migrate to Z" / "upgrade W" → migration plan
    • generic request → explore current work
  2. Launch Explore agent (via Task tool with subagent_type: Explore) to gather relevant context based on intent:

    For feature development:

    • locate related existing code and patterns
    • check project structure (README, config files, existing similar implementations)
    • identify affected components and dependencies

    For bug fixing:

    • look for error logs, test failures, or stack traces
    • find related code that might be involved
    • check recent git changes in problem areas

    For refactoring/migration:

    • identify all files/components affected
    • check test coverage of affected areas
    • find dependencies and integration points

    For generic/unclear requests:

    • check git status and recent file activity
    • examine current working directory structure
    • identify primary language/framework from file extensions and config files

Read the full file on GitHub · 315 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. 6d ago First seen · 315 lines · 9 tokens per session scan C 683b69b3bd33

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ralphex-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository umputun/ralphex (1,477 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 2,831 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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