Rewrite the commit messages on your feature branch to conventional-commit format with meaningful bodies before opening the PR, leaving the code untouched.
/goal every commit on this branch (ahead of main) has a conventional-commit subject under 72 characters and a body explaining why — use interactive rebase to reword only (no code changes, no commits dropped), verify with `git log main..HEAD`, and confirm the diff against the original branch tip is empty; stop after 5 turns
Document one undocumented public module per fresh-context iteration, verifying every code sample compiles and accumulating style rules in guardrails so the docs read like one author wrote them.
/loop fresh context each iteration: read docs-backlog.json, docs/STYLE.md, and .ralph/guardrails.md; pick the top undocumented module, write its reference page with a runnable example, execute the example to prove it works, and mark the module done; add any style or structure decision to .ralph/guardrails.md; stop when the backlog is empty or after 20 turns
Break a large refactor into a JSON backlog of modules and let fresh-context iterations convert one module per pass, with guardrails capturing every pattern decision so the result stays consistent.
/loop fresh context each iteration: read refactor-plan.json and .ralph/guardrails.md, take the next module not marked converted, migrate it to the target pattern described in PROMPT.md, run tests and typecheck, and mark it converted only when green; record every convention decision you make (naming, file layout, error handling) in .ralph/guardrails.md so later modules match earlier ones; stop when all modules are converted or after 30 turns
Iterate over a prioritized list of untested modules with fresh context each pass, writing real behavioral tests for one module at a time and banking lessons in a guardrails file.
/loop each iteration with fresh context: read .ralph/test-backlog.json and .ralph/guardrails.md, pick the top unfinished module, write behavioral tests for its public API (no snapshot-only tests), run the suite, and mark the module done only when its tests pass and coverage for it exceeds 80%; append any discovered testing gotcha (fixtures, mocking rules, async traps) to .ralph/guardrails.md; stop when the backlog is empty or after 25 turns
The canonical Ralph loop: each iteration starts fresh, reads the PRD and guardrails, ships exactly one backlog item end-to-end, and records what it learned.
/loop start each iteration with fresh context: read PROMPT.md, prd.json, and .ralph/guardrails.md; pick the single highest-priority item in prd.json not marked done, implement it with tests, run the full check suite, commit and mark it done only if green; if blocked or a check fails twice the same way, append the lesson to .ralph/guardrails.md and move on; stop when every item is done or after 30 turns
/goal CHANGELOG.md has a complete entry for the next release — read every commit since the last version tag, group changes into Added, Changed, Fixed, and Removed, write user-facing descriptions (not commit messages), link PR numbers, and flag anything that looks like a breaking change; stop after 5 turns
/goal `gitleaks detect --no-git` reports zero findings — for each finding, tell me whether it looks like a real credential (flag it for rotation and replace it with an env var lookup) or a false positive (add it to the baseline with a comment); never print the secret value itself; stop after 8 turns
/goal every path in openapi.yaml has a contract test asserting its status codes and response schema — add tests for one untested endpoint per turn, run the suite, and fix either the spec or the handler when they disagree (tell me which you chose); stop when all paths are covered or after 15 turns
Instrument the test suite with query logging, find endpoints issuing N+1 queries, and fix them with eager loading or batching until the hot paths are clean.
/goal no endpoint in the integration test suite issues more than 10 SQL queries per request — enable query logging in the test environment, find the worst N+1 offender, fix it with eager loading or a batched query, verify the count dropped and tests still pass, then move to the next; stop after 12 turns
/goal `npm outdated` lists no minor or patch updates — upgrade exactly one package per turn, run tests, lint, and build after each, commit if green, and pin the previous version with a note in UPGRADE-BLOCKERS.md if it fails; stop after 20 turns
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/goal `npx knip` reports no unused files or exports — remove one cluster of dead code at a time, run the full test suite and typecheck after each removal, and revert any deletion that breaks them; stop after 15 turns
A Ralph-style loop that writes its own rules: when a check fails the same way twice, the failure pattern gets appended to a guardrails file that every later iteration reads first.
/loop read .ralph/guardrails.md before doing anything, then run the full check suite and fix the first failure; if a check fails twice with the same error, append the failure pattern and a one-line rule for avoiding it to .ralph/guardrails.md before retrying; stop when all checks pass or after 15 turns
/goal all database migrations apply cleanly — run them, fix schema or SQL errors, repeat until `npx prisma migrate status` is clean; stop after 6 turns
/goal the recent diff is clean and convention-aligned — review it for debug code, dead branches, and bad names, fix with minimal edits until `npm run lint && npm test` passes; stop after 4 turns
/goal a PR is open for this change and every CI check passes — implement it, test locally, push, open the PR with `gh pr create`, then keep fixing failures (re-check with `gh pr checks`) until green; stop after 10 turns