/ralph-loop
The iterative plan-driven advancement pattern John runs on. Read PLAN.md, advance one phase, update PLAN.md, repeat. Adapted from snarktank/ralph for John's longer-horizon, multi-half, subagent-fanout scope.
$ npx -y skills add kitchen-engineer42/joharnessburg --skill ralph-loop --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/ralph-loop
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The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
The iterative plan-driven advancement pattern John runs on. Read PLAN.md, advance one phase, update PLAN.md, repeat. Adapted from snarktank/ralph for John's longer-horizon, multi-half, subagent-fanout scope.
中文版: README_ZH.md John turns unstructured source material into a working knowledge-dense app. It keeps knowledge engineering and app building in one durable run, coordinates large per-entry fan-outs, and leaves auditable events and checkpoints on disk.
Other skills on joharnessburg.
- /app-design-thinking
Design the app mechanism and build pipeline for the produced app — the app-phase analog of [[schema-design]]. Use this skill whenever the knowledge phases are complete (or nearly so), when the user mentions building the app / runtime / UX / production / deploy, when the app-type
Open skill - /archive-workspace
Bundle a finished John workspace from Codex. Use when the user wants to archive, package, hand off, or preserve a John project, or wants the Claude command equivalent of /john:archive.
Open skill - /chunking
Break parsed markdown into a tree of progressively-disclosed chunks for downstream extraction. Use this skill whenever a phase needs to work on per-chunk units, when the user mentions chunking or splitting documents, or when transitioning from parsing to extraction — make sure
Open skill - /code-quality-guardrails
Apply deterministic quality checks to the code John produces — catch the 80% of issues (leaked API keys, hardcoded prod URLs, broken imports, missing dependencies, infinite spinners, dead error states, debug logs in production) without invoking the LLM at all; only fall back to
Open skill - /codex-run-report
Generate John's process scorecard, auditor manifests, and shareable run report from a Codex project using John's provider-neutral scripts. Use when the user asks for a John report, run report, scorecard, provenance manifest, self-evaluation manifest, or evidence for template
Open skill - /codex-template-activation
Activate a Hamster-built or otherwise applied John template for Codex in the current project. Use when a merged template plugin already exists, when the user asks to use a John template in Codex, or after template apply has produced a Claude `--plugin-dir` path and Codex needs
Open skill