Loop/ralphAutomationmedium riskintermediatesafety C · 55 · open-ended

Deterministic backlog loop for Codex CLI

A Codex-first autonomous runner that pulls exactly one task per iteration from a JSON backlog with fresh context each run and a JSONL audit log for full traceability.

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Autonomous runner: exactly one task per iteration pulled from a JSON backlog, fresh context each run, JSONL audit log for traceability; optional Claude Code interleaving. Cap the run at 25 iterations; leave remaining work for the next session.
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Implementation note

When to use: you want Ralph-style backlog grinding with Codex CLI as the engine, in contexts where traceability matters — you need to answer what the loop did on iteration 14 after the fact. How it works: an autonomous runner that pulls exactly one task per iteration from a JSON backlog, runs it with fresh context, and appends a JSONL audit log entry per iteration, giving the whole run a machine-readable paper trail. The one-task-per-iteration discipline keeps each run bounded and attributable, and the JSON backlog is the shared state between iterations. It can optionally interleave Claude Code runs alongside Codex. Safety: the JSONL audit log is the distinguishing rail — full traceability of what ran, when, and against which task, which most homemade Ralph loops lack entirely. Keep backlog items small and independently shippable, and bound total iterations yourself, since the runner's determinism governs task selection, not spend.

Source: nibzard/looper ↗

More automation loops

Ship production-grade apps autonomously

Loop/ralphnew

Hand an idea to Claude Code; it authors specs, designs, builds, tests, secures, and ships until enterprise done or budget exhausted.

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# 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
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claude-progress.txt harness pattern (Anthropic)

Loop/ralph★ 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.

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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.
automationmedium riskclaude-code

Complete all tasks in tasks.md

Loop/ralphnew

Work through your tasks.md file, completing each task until none remain or max iterations is reached.

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/ralph-loop "Complete all tasks in tasks.md" --max-iterations 50
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