Ralph loop — autonomous coding-agent iterations with preflight checks (short pointer)
Run a coding agent in a long autonomous loop: wide outcome-focused prompt, CLI/auth preflight, managed todos, self-verification — short pointer
- What
- Run a coding agent in a long autonomous loop: wide outcome-focused prompt, CLI/auth preflight, managed todos, self-verification — short pointer
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- a project with the CLIs and tokens the preflight will check (adapted to your stack); no license declared in the source repo — read it yourself before reusing its content
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor — a short pointer to @andrelandgraf's Ralph loop workflow: drive long-running autonomous development from a wide, outcome-focused prompt by letting the agent's own harness manage the todo list. The loop starts with a preflight check (every CLI installed, linked and authenticated — the agent infers the infra from the codebase and reports fix commands for anything red, and never starts until everything is green), then iterates: break remaining work into first-principles tasks, implement with tests and user-facing docs, verify with typecheck, format, tests and browser checks, commit and move on. The durable record of intent lives in the artifacts produced — tests as executable acceptance criteria, docs, and changelogs. Honest caveats: **no license declared in the repository manifest — license unknown**, so this is a short fiche linking to the source, without reusing its content; it assumes a fullstack-recipes-style setup (agent-browser, Vercel/Neon/Sentry CLIs) — adapt the preflight and verification commands to your own stack; a runaway loop can burn a lot of agent time, so keep an eye on it. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use. Discovered via skills.sh.
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Prerequisites: a project with the CLIs and tokens the preflight will check (adapted to your stack); no license declared in the source repo — read it yourself before reusing its content Install "Ralph loop — autonomous coding-agent iterations with preflight checks (short pointer)" for me. Fetch the SKILL.md from the source repository into a temporary folder, review it for anything suspicious, and report in two or three sentences what the Ralph loop workflow covers (preflight CLI/auth checks, harness-managed todos, iterative implement-verify-commit, tests-as-acceptance-criteria) so I can adapt it to my own project. Do not copy the workflow's content into my project — this is a reference lookup only. Repository: https://github.com/andrelandgraf/fullstackrecipes/blob/main/skills/ralph-loop-workflow/SKILL.md GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.