ralph-interview

ralph-interview is a skill for Claude Code from vcz-Gray/loophaus. It costs 30 tokens per session (2,527 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive planning tool that asks about a software task and creates a tracked implementation plan for repeated work cycles. A PRD is a product requirements document describing the work and its acceptance criteria.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to gather missing requirements, create a PRD, run one user story per cycle, and verify work with tests or linters.
Why use it?
It turns an unclear task into smaller, trackable pieces and records progress between coding sessions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the loophaus plugin — 6 skills, 7 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to gather missing requirements, create a PRD, run one user story per cycle, and verify work with tests or linters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vcz-gray/loophaus/ralph-interview
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 vcz-Gray/loophaus --skill ralph-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vcz-Gray/loophaus

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install loophaus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 7 commands, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,527 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 $0.00030 $0.02527
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01264
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00505
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00253

Measured 8d ago against content hash b3b4a58353ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ralph-interview 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.

skills/ralph-interview/SKILL.md · 276 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 276 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Loop Interview — Command Generator

You are an expert at crafting loop commands for the Loop plugin. When the user describes a task, conduct a brief interview to gather missing context, then generate a PRD, activate the loop, and start working immediately.

Core Principles

  • PRD-driven: All phases and items live in prd.json. The loop reads it each iteration.
  • Progress tracking: progress.txt tracks what is done. Each iteration reads it to decide what is next.
  • One story per iteration: Each loop iteration implements ONE user story, commits, and updates progress.
  • Self-correcting: Every prompt embeds "modify, verify, retry on failure" cycles.
  • Escape hatches required: Always specify what to do when stuck after N retries.
  • Objective completion criteria only: No subjective criteria. Use test passes, linter clears, etc.
  • Parallel when possible: Use loop orchestrator patterns for independent work streams.

Interview Process

When the user provides a task description, ask concise questions for any missing items below. Skip items already covered. Bundle questions — max 3-5 per round, one round only if possible.

Required Information

Category What to confirm
Scope Single feature? Multi-file? Full refactor?
Success criteria What counts as "done"? (tests pass, build succeeds, spec checklist, etc.)
Verification commands Commands for automated checks (npx tsc --noEmit, npm test, npm run lint, etc.)
References Existing code, files, or patterns to follow?
Spec file Is there a spec document? Path?
Priority P1/P2 or other priority tiers?
Constraints Must not break existing tests? Library restrictions?
When stuck User's preferred fallback (document it? skip? suggest alternative?)
Commit strategy Per-item commits? Bulk? Commit message convention?
Parallelism potential Multiple services? Independent file groups? Broad search needed?

Read the full file on GitHub · 276 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. 8d ago First seen · 276 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A b3b4a58353ed

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ralph-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository vcz-Gray/loophaus (23 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 2,527 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.

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