Ralph Hats

Ralph Hats is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by mikeyobrien in ralph-orchestrator.

3.1K stars285 forkson mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestratorAdded 2026/08/17Repository updated 2026/08/16

aiai-agentsai-agents-frameworkai-developer-toolsclaude-codeclaude-code-clicodex-clidevelopment-toolsdevelopment-workflowgemini-clikirokiro-cliopencoderalph-loopralph-wiggum

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Install Ralph Hats

Copy Ralph Hats into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestrator/tree/main/skills/ralph-hats ~/.claude/skills/ralph-hats

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestrator.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/ralph-hats/SKILL.md in mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestrator
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ralph-hats
Collection: One of 20 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Ralph Hats does

Ralph Hats creates, inspects, validates, and improves Ralph hat collections for multi-hat agent workflows. Use it when making or refining .ralph/hats/*.yml files, debugging hat routing, explaining event topology, or tuning a Ralph run.

Ralph Hats is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Ralph Hats comes from a repository tagged ai, ai-agents, ai-agents-framework, ai-developer-tools and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Ralph Hats

Use this skill to operate the full Ralph hat lifecycle for user-authored hat collections.

Use This Skill For

Creating a new hat collection in .ralph/hats/
Inspecting an existing hat collection and explaining its topology
Validating trigger routing, event flow, and completion behavior
Improving or refactoring hats for clearer roles and safer routing
Recommending better orchestration patterns for a Ralph workflow

Core Assumptions

Core runtime config already lives in ralph.yml or another -c source.
User-authored hats are stored separately and passed with -H.
This skill operates public hat collections, not Ralph built-in presets.

Workflow

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Ralph Hats

What else does mikeyobrien publish alongside Ralph Hats?
Ralph Hats is one of 20 skills that DirSkills catalogs from mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestrator, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Code Assist, Code Task Generator and Complex Test. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Ralph Hats does, and is maintained by mikeyobrien in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestrator page.
How does Ralph Hats compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Ralph Hats ranks #658 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Ralph Hats against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.