Backend Ralph Plan

Overview

Create a Django implementation plan and RALPH-PROMPT.md for an explicitly requested Ralph loop.

This skill ships inside the Plan Directory plugin and can be installed through the Claude Code marketplace or directly in Codex from its skill path.

Parent Surface

When to Use

• The user explicitly wants a Django plan runnable through Ralph Wiggum.
• The work needs bounded iterations with task-specific completion evidence.
• Creating the plan does not itself start the loop or authorize commits.

Purpose

This skill creates two deliverables:

The key insight: Ralph works by feeding the same prompt repeatedly. Claude sees its previous work in files/git and iterates. RALPH-PROMPT.md becomes that prompt, instructing Claude to work through tasks with strict quality gates.

When NOT to Use

• Quick prototypes or exploratory code
• Frontend projects (create frontend-ralph-plan if needed)
• Simple tasks that don't need iteration
• Plans where human judgment is needed at each step

The Two-Step Process

Step 1: This skill creates the plan

Step 2: Run the plan

That's it. This command:

Optional: /plan-directory:run --max-iterations 50

docs/plans/<slug>/
├── PLAN.md              # Task index with tracking
├── RALPH-PROMPT.md      # Prompt for ralph-loop
├── 001-<task>.md        # Task files
└── ...

/plan-directory:run <slug>

Resources

Declared allowed tools:

Installation

Switch between Claude Code and Codex, then copy the install command for the runtime you use.

claude plugin marketplace add DiversioTeam/agent-skills-marketplace
claude plugin install plan-directory@diversiotech

CODEX_HOME="${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}"
python3 "$CODEX_HOME/skills/.system/skill-installer/scripts/install-skill-from-github.py" \
  --repo DiversioTeam/agent-skills-marketplace \
  --path plugins/plan-directory/skills/backend-ralph-plan

Invocation:

/plan-directory:backend-ralph-plan

name: backend-ralph-plan