ralph-loop

ralph-loop is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yylo-dev/yylo. It costs 29 tokens per session (199 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for carrying out one explicitly assigned task from a kanban board and ending with a checked commit. A commit is a saved set of code changes in version control.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it only when the user explicitly asks for ralph-loop to complete a specific kanban task.
Why use it?
It keeps work limited to one assigned task and requires the result to be validated before it is recorded.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/yylo-dev/yylo/ralph-loop
Any agent
npx skills add yylo-dev/yylo --skill ralph-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yylo-dev/yylo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ralph-loop

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yylo-dev/yylo/ralph-loop"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yylo-dev/yylo/ralph-loop.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 199 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00029 $0.00199
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00100
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00020

Measured 4d ago against content hash 85732f468ef3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ralph-loop 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/kanban.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.agents/skills/ralph-loop/SKILL.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Read references/implement.md completely and follow it.

Stay within the assigned task. Do not select unrelated work, edit tasks.md, auto-tag releases, push, deploy, mutate production, or broaden scope because another issue is noticed. Record a bounded related Kanban follow-up when necessary.

Keep durable instructions concise and evidence-backed. Status belongs in the task response and runtime receipts, not AGENTS.md.

Controller checkpoints are best-effort local durability warnings after terminal metadata is durable. They never gate yy pi, yy task, yy merge, product commits, candidates, or releases.

Complete assigned request

Treat the following as the complete user-assigned request. Preserve task references and directives literally; resolve them only through the normal agent workflow.

$ARGUMENTS

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 4d ago First seen · 19 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 85732f468ef3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ralph-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository yylo-dev/yylo (57 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 199 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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