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cleanup-ralph

Skill3 starsChanged 18 days agoApache-2.0View on GitHub

ralph-loop plus a cleaner that, every few turns, distills the workspace, writes a short NEXT.md, and squashes the epoch into one commit (old history kept in a tag). Run with /baton:cleanup-ralph "<task>".

The file

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2 rules. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.

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    Very specific

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  1. Very specific:

    Add one line to the end of the worker's turn prompt: If NEXT.md exists at the repository root, read it first: a cleaner wrote it after …

    line 15
  2. Very specific:

    Every --cleanup-turns work turns, run the protocol's Cleaning steps.

    line 16

≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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Files
SKILL.md

cleanup-ralph

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Load the run protocol first (Skill tool → baton:protocol; if that fails, Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/protocol/SKILL.md) and follow it, including its Cleaning section. Then Read ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../ralph-loop/SKILL.md and run exactly that flow (roles, turn prompt, stop rules), with these changes:

  • The flow name in headers and commit messages is cleanup-ralph.
  • Add one line to the end of the worker's turn prompt: If NEXT.md exists at the repository root, read it first: a cleaner wrote it after distilling the workspace.
  • Every --cleanup-turns work turns, run the protocol's Cleaning steps.
  • Also stop after 3 consecutive empty work turns.

Why

Long fresh-session loops pile up strays: scratch files, dead experiments, half-abandoned approaches. Each fresh turn then spends its budget rediscovering them. A periodic cleaner keeps the tree small and leaves a ten-line pointer to what's next, while the full history stays reachable through the epoch tags.

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