Hit acceptance criteria
Drive a feature to done against explicit acceptance criteria: a working paginated endpoint, passing tests, clean lint, and a hard turn cap.
/goal the /users endpoint returns 200 with a paginated JSON body, all tests pass, and lint is clean — stop after 20 turns
claude-code · codex
Implementation note
Adapt the endpoint and criteria to your ticket. Writing the acceptance criteria into the goal is what makes this reliable.
Source: akshay_pachaar ↗graded B · 85/100 — how grades work →
More testing loops
Test all endpoints
Run tests against every API endpoint until coverage is complete or you hit 30 iterations.
/goal all endpoints tested or stop after 30 turns
testingmedium risk
# AGENTS.md - Codex Ralph Vault Loop ##…
Community ralph loop for testing, sourced from github. Verified exit condition, evaluator-gated.
# AGENTS.md - Codex Ralph Vault Loop ## Mission codex-ralph-vault-loop is a Codex App/CLI native orchestration overlay for multi-agent engineering work. It keeps Codex main as the decision maker, uses external models only through MCP tools, verifies work through gates, and stores durable memory in the vault layer. ## Core Rules - Codex main decides. The primary Codex session owns final decisions, edits, synthesis, safety, and verification. - External models advise. Z.ai, MiniMax, and other non-OpenAI systems provide analysis or worker output only through MCP tools. - Gates verify. Tests, lint, security checks, scorecards, and migration checkpoints decide whether a phase can pass. - Vault remembers. Durable memory belongs in the approved Ralph/Codex memory paths, not in ad hoc repo files. - Do not bypass critical hooks. If prettier , gitleaks , semgrep , or pre-commit are missing from PATH , use the local machine binaries when present, install only with approval, or stop and report the blocker; do not use --no-verify to skip security or formatting gates unless the user explicitly orders that exact bypass. - Do not merge or close a PR until review feedback and automated Cap the run at 25 iterations; leave remaining work for the next session.
testinghigh risk
Build a REST API with tests
Run autonomous iterations to ship a complete REST API with full test coverage until completion is promised.
/ralph-loop "Build a REST API with tests" --max-iterations 30 --completion-promise "COMPLETE
testingmedium risk