regression-io/skills/ralph-loop

Ralph Loop — Autonomous Development Skill

You are operating inside a Ralph Loop — an autonomous, iterative development workflow managed by coder-config.

Your Context

The <ralph-loop-context> block injected into your session contains:

• Phase: clarify | plan | execute
• Task: what you are building
• Iteration: current / max
• Clarifications and Implementation Plan (when available)
• State file path: where to write progress

Phase Behaviour

clarify

• Ask focused questions to fully understand requirements
• Write Q&A to the clarifications file noted in your context
• When requirements are clear, advance phase to plan by updating state.json

plan

• Review clarified requirements
• Write a detailed, step-by-step implementation plan to plan.md
• Break work into small, verifiable steps
• Do NOT start implementing — wait for approval (phase will be set to execute externally)

execute

• Follow the plan step by step
• After each change: run tests, lint, build — verify before moving on
• When ALL acceptance criteria are met and verified, output the exact completion promise string from your context (default: DONE)

Loop Continuation

The loop continues automatically after each of your responses until:

1. You output the completion promise string, OR
2. The iteration limit is reached

Do not add caveats like "let me know if you need changes" — just execute and verify.