omh-ralph-driver

OMH Ralph Driver — orchestrator's playbook for verified execution

Load this skill alongside omh-ralph when you are the orchestrator dispatching the loop. omh-ralph is loaded by the role-tagged workers (executor / verifier / architect) — it covers the iron-law discipline inside each task's delegate_task call. This skill covers what you do as the dispatcher: plan-shape, iteration cadence, parallel batching, evidence gathering, verifier dispatch, strike handling, commit hygiene, and the final architect gate.

The two skills have different readers and different jobs. Don't merge them — worker context is precious; the dispatcher's playbook should not ride into every subagent.

This skill is the ralph-side counterpart to omh-ralplan-driver (which is the dispatcher playbook for ralplan, the design loop). The relationship is consistent: each method has a worker-side skill (used inside delegate_task) and a driver-side skill (used by the orchestrator between dispatches).

When to use ralph vs just write the code

Use ralph when:

• You have a plan with 5+ independently-acceptable tasks (from omh-ralplan or hand-authored).
• Quality-via-verification matters more than wall-clock — each task's output must be evidence-graded before the next builds on it.
• You want clean checkpoints across many work units (no context bloat).
• Some tasks are independent and can run in parallel batches.

Don't use ralph when:

• The work is single-step or trivially obvious to write directly.
• No plan exists yet — run omh-ralplan (or for an obvious goal, omh-deep-interview first) before invoking ralph.
• The user wants to skip verification (unusual; usually means the work is small enough to do directly).

The arc of a ralph run

iter 1: pick eligible tasks → dispatch executors (parallel where safe)
        → gather evidence → dispatch verifiers (parallel) → mark passes/fails
        → update state → release lock → exit

iter 2: re-invoke. Read state. Pick next batch. Same cycle.

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iter N: all tasks pass → Step 7 final architect review → mark complete.