setup-ralph

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What is Ralph?

Ralph is Geoffrey Huntley's autonomous AI coding methodology that uses iterative loops with task selection, execution, and validation. In its purest form, it's a Bash loop:

while :; do cat PROMPT.md | claude ; done

The loop feeds a prompt file to Claude, the agent completes one task, updates the implementation plan, commits changes, then exits. The loop restarts immediately with fresh context.

Core Philosophy

The Ralph Wiggum Technique is deterministically bad in an undeterministic world. Ralph solves context accumulation by starting each iteration with fresh context—the core insight behind Geoffrey's approach.

Three Phases, Two Prompts, One Loop