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Explain the Cursor Ralph Loop accurately. The commands and .cursor/ralph state in this guide describe the external Cursor plugin; this guide neither starts nor cancels a loop in Codex. For native Codex loop execution, resolve cursor-ralph-loop and its verified runtime separately.

Ralph Loop Help

Trigger

The user asks what Ralph Loop is, how it works, or needs usage guidance.

What to Explain

What is Ralph Loop?

Ralph Loop implements the Ralph Wiggum technique — an iterative development methodology based on continuous AI loops, pioneered by Geoffrey Huntley.

Core concept: the same prompt is fed to the agent repeatedly. The "self-referential" aspect comes from the agent seeing its own previous work in the files and git history, not from feeding output back as input.