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Ralph Loop

by mikeyobrien

Ralph Loop 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 Loop
Copy Ralph Loop 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-loop ~/.claude/skills/ralph-loop

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-loop/SKILL.md in mikeyobrien/ralph-orchestrator
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/ralph-loop
Collection
One of 20 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering2451 skills

What Ralph Loop does

Ralph Loop operates Ralph loops from the CLI: start or continue runs with the right configs, inspect state and diffs, resume suspended loops, and merge or discard completed worktree loops. Use it whenever you need to run, monitor, recover, or debug Ralph loops and merge queues.

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

Documentation

README

Ralph Loop

Use this skill to operate Ralph loops from the outside.

Use This Skill For

  • Starting or continuing a Ralph run with the right -c and -H inputs
  • Inspecting loop state, worktrees, logs, history, and diffs
  • Resuming a hook-suspended loop
  • Merging or discarding completed worktree loops
  • Debugging unexpected loop behavior with current diagnostics files

Workflow

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

Frequently asked about Ralph Loop

  • What else does mikeyobrien publish alongside Ralph Loop?

    Ralph Loop 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 Loop 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 Loop compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Ralph Loop ranks #659 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 Loop against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.