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Ralph — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Initialize and manage Ralph Wiggum autonomous coding mode.

How to install Ralph

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/jkitchin-skillz-ralph/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/jkitchin-skillz-ralph && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jkitchin/skillz/HEAD/commands/ralph.md -o ~/.claude/skills/jkitchin-skillz-ralph/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Ralph does

description: Initialize and manage Ralph Wiggum autonomous coding mode allowed-tools:

Bash
Read
Write
Edit argument-hint: "<init|status|clean> [options]"

Ralph Wiggum Mode

Initialize and manage Ralph Wiggum autonomous coding mode in your project.

Commands

`/ralph init`

Initialize Ralph in the current project. Creates:

ralph.sh - Main loop script with sandbox enforcement
ralph-sandbox.sh - Docker wrapper for safe execution
RALPH_PROMPT.md - Prompt

Alternatives in Development

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