Delegate loop termination to Claude
Run an agentic loop until a dedicated Claude evaluator judges your condition met, delegating stop logic from shell parsing to model inference.
/goal CONDITION directive evaluated by a dedicated Claude Haiku judge each turn. The orchestrator stops parsing model output entirely: it spawns one long-lived claude -p "/goal CONDITION" session, the /goal evaluator reads the running transcript and answers "is the condition satisfied yet?" turn by turn, and the Stop hook blocks termination until the evaluator says yes. ralph.sh has been reduced to a one-line deprecation shim that exec s goal.sh . Decision moved from a shell-level grep into an explicit model call with a schema-validated yes/no — the textbook ZFC move Cap the run at 20 turns.
claude-code
More automation loops
Ship production-grade apps autonomously
Hand an idea to Claude Code; it authors specs, designs, builds, tests, secures, and ships until enterprise done or budget exhausted.
# dare-to-be-stupid — Design (v2, refined) > A Claude Code plugin. One command, /dare , hands an idea or PRD to an autonomous > loop that authors specs, designs, builds, tests, secures, ships, fixes, and iterates > until the app passes an enterprise-production definition of done — or the budget dies. > > Named for the Weird Al song. The joke is that it runs the Ralph Loop on purpose , > with --dangerously-skip-permissions , and narrates the whole thing in the voice of an > '80s Junkion. Pre-production only. Never points at anything with users. This is v2. It keeps the strong core of the original spec (external reviewer, ratchet, guard hook, Junkion style) and adds the three phases the original left thin relative to the actual goal: PRD authoring, a design phase, and a real enterprise DoD including security, CI, docs/observability, and design quality (with quality plugins auto-installed). --- ## 0. The premise, in one paragraph The User builds documentation-first: spec → system docs → API contracts → CLAUDE.md → code. dare-to-be-stupid is the deliberate inverse, packaged as comedy that also solves two real engineering problems. It is a real build , not a joke ar
claude-progress.txt harness pattern (Anthropic)
Anthropic's first-party file-as-memory harness for long-running agents: every fresh-context session recovers state from a progress file and the git log, does one unit of work, updates the file, commits, and exits.
Long-running agent harness: each fresh-context session starts by reading `claude-progress.txt` + git log to recover state, does one unit of work, updates the progress file, commits, exits. Initializer session sets up the file; coder sessions loop.
Guardrails: Stop when the goal is verifiably met, or stop after 15 iterations, whichever comes first. Verify each pass by running the relevant tests or checks — self-reported success does not count. Keep changes minimal and never touch files outside the task’s scope.
Complete all tasks in tasks.md
Work through your tasks.md file, completing each task until none remain or max iterations is reached.
/ralph-loop "Complete all tasks in tasks.md" --max-iterations 50