Ralph Claude Code

Ralph for Claude Code
Autonomous AI development loop with intelligent exit detection and rate limiting

Ralph is an implementation of the Geoffrey Huntley's technique for Claude Code that enables continuous autonomous development cycles he named after Ralph Wiggum. It enables continuous autonomous development cycles where Claude Code iteratively improves your project until completion, with built-in safeguards to prevent infinite loops and API overuse.

Install once, use everywhere - Ralph becomes a global command available in any directory.

Project Status

Version: v0.11.5 - Active Development
Core Features: Working and tested
Test Coverage: 784 tests, 100% pass rate

What's Working Now
- Autonomous development loops with intelligent exit detection
- Dual-condition exit gate: Requires BOTH completion indicators AND explicit EXIT_SIGNAL
- Rate limiting with hourly reset (100 calls/hour, configurable)
- Circuit breaker with advanced error detection (prevents runaway loops)
- Response analyzer with semantic understanding and two-stage error filtering
- JSON output format support with automatic fallback to text parsing
- Session continuity with --resume flag for context preservation (no session hijacking)
- Session expiration with configurable timeout (default: 24 hours)
- Modern CLI flags: --output-format, --allowed-tools, --no-continue
- Interactive project enablement with ralph-enable wizard
- .ralphrc configuration file for project settings
- Live streaming output with --live flag for real-time Claude Code visibility
- Log rotation: ralph.log rotates at 10MB, keeping 4 archived files
- Dry-run mode (--dry-run) to simulate loops without API calls
- Metrics tracking with ralph-stats analytics command (JSON Lines per-loop metrics)
- Desktop notifications (--notify) for…