What is the Ralph Wiggum technique?

It is an approach where the agent works on the same task repeatedly, seeing its previous work each time, until the task is complete.

When should I use it?

For iterative development tasks where repeated passes over the same coding task help drive it to completion.

Does the agent see what it did before?

Yes. On each iteration the agent sees its previous work before continuing on the task.

ralph-loop

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The ralph loop plugin is a productivity plugin that runs interactive self-referential AI loops for iterative development, implementing the Ralph Wiggum technique. The agent works on the same coding task repeatedly, seeing its previous work each time, until the task is complete.

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Have an AI agent set up that can load plugins.

What your AI can do with it

Runs the Ralph Wiggum technique as a repeatable loop
Has the agent work on the same coding task repeatedly
Shows the agent its previous work on each iteration
Continues iterating until the task is complete

Getting started

Have an AI agent set up that can load plugins.
Add the ralph loop plugin to the agent's configuration.
Give the agent a coding task to work on.
Let the loop run, with the agent revisiting its own work until the task is done.

Signals

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Last commit: Sep 2026

Questions

What is the Ralph Wiggum technique?: It is an approach where the agent works on the same task repeatedly, seeing its previous work each time, until the task is complete.
When should I use it?: For iterative development tasks where repeated passes over the same coding task help drive it to completion.
Does the agent see what it did before?: Yes. On each iteration the agent sees its previous work before continuing on the task.

Advanced

Item type: plugin
Key: anthropics-claude-plugins-official-ralph-loop
Source: github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official

github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official