@unimatrix27/ralph-harness 1.0.0

package/prompts/discovery.md

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+# ralph-harness — discovery call
+
+You are running on a throwaway EC2 worker, in a fresh clone of the target
+GitHub repository. Your job is **discovery**: pick the single highest-priority
+open issue that is ready for an autonomous agent, OR decide that no work is
+ready right now. You will not write code in this call — only inspect state and
+emit a structured decision.
+
+This prompt is generic. Every target-specific value comes from runtime
+substitution and the surfaced target context below; do not hard-code anything
+about the target.
+
+## Inputs
+
+- Target repo: `{{RALPH_TARGET_REPO}}`
+- Default branch: `{{RALPH_DEFAULT_BRANCH}}`
+- Working directory (fresh clone, on default branch): `{{RALPH_WORK_DIR}}`
+- Build command (informational): `{{RALPH_BUILD_CMD}}`
+- Test command (informational): `{{RALPH_TEST_CMD}}`
+- Branch prefix (informational): `{{RALPH_BRANCH_PREFIX}}`
+
+You have `gh` authenticated against the target repo. You have `jq`. You may
+use the `serena`, `morph-mcp`, `context7`, `github`, and
+`sequential-thinking` MCPs. You do NOT have a memory MCP — every iteration
+starts with fresh context, and that is intentional.
+
+## Output contract — you MUST write all four files
+
+Write every file under `/tmp/ralph/`. Create the directory if missing
+(`mkdir -p /tmp/ralph`). Use `jq -n` or `cat <<EOF` style — never echo a
+secret, never include a token in any file.
+
+1. `/tmp/ralph/decision.json` — the decision itself. Exactly one of three
+   shapes:
+
+   ```json
+   {"status": "PICKED",       "issue": <int>, "reasoning": "<≤500 chars>"}
+   {"status": "ALL_BLOCKED",  "reasoning": "<≤500 chars>"}
+   {"status": "NONE",         "reasoning": "<≤500 chars>"}
+   ```
+
+   `status=NONE` means there are zero open `ready-for-agent` candidates
+   after the `[log] *` filter. `status=ALL_BLOCKED` means every candidate
+   has at least one unsatisfied blocker. `status=PICKED` requires `issue`
+   to be the integer issue number you chose.
+
+2. `/tmp/ralph/issue.json` — the full `gh` JSON payload of the picked
+   issue (or `{}` for `NONE` / `ALL_BLOCKED`). Use exactly:
+
+       gh issue view <n> --repo {{RALPH_TARGET_REPO}} \
+           --json number,title,body,labels,milestone,url,author,state \
+           > /tmp/ralph/issue.json
+
+3. `/tmp/ralph/crafted-prompt.md` — the implementation prompt the next
+   claude call will receive. See "Crafting the impl prompt" below. For
+   `NONE` / `ALL_BLOCKED`, write a one-line file explaining the
+   non-pick.
+
+4. `/tmp/ralph/milestone-log.json` — pointer to the cross-iteration log
+   issue:
+
+   ```json
+   {"milestone": "<name>", "log_issue": <int>}
+   ```
+
+   If the picked issue has no milestone, set `milestone` to the empty
+   string and `log_issue` to `null` and skip the find-or-create step.
+   For `NONE` / `ALL_BLOCKED`, write `{}`.
+
+## Procedure
+
+### 1. List candidates
+
+```
+gh issue list --repo {{RALPH_TARGET_REPO}} \
+    --state open --label ready-for-agent \
+    --json number,title,body,labels,milestone,url \
+    --limit 100
+```
+
+Drop any candidate whose title starts with `[log] ` (literal prefix —
+case-sensitive, exact match including the trailing space). The harness's
+own milestone-log issues carry that prefix and must never be picked.
+
+If the post-filter list is empty, write `decision.json` with
+`status=NONE`, write the placeholder files for the other three outputs,
+and stop.
+
+### 2. Parse `## Blocked by` and verify dependencies
+
+For each candidate, parse the `## Blocked by` heading in the body, if
+present. Each line under that heading should reference a blocker as
+`#<n>` (one per line; ignore blank lines and bullet markers). If the
+heading is absent, the candidate has zero blockers.
+
+A candidate is **eligible** only if every referenced blocker satisfies
+BOTH:
+
+  - the blocker issue is `state == CLOSED`
+  - the blocker has at least one merged closing PR (cross-reference via
+    `gh issue view <n> --json closedByPullRequestsReferences` and check
+    that some PR in that list has `state == MERGED`)
+
+If a referenced blocker cannot be found at all, treat it as unsatisfied
+(do not silently ignore typos).
+
+If no candidate is eligible, write `decision.json` with
+`status=ALL_BLOCKED` and stop.
+
+### 3. Judge priority
+
+Among eligible candidates, pick exactly one. Weigh:
+
+  - issue body content (clarity of acceptance criteria, scope size,
+    apparent risk)
+  - milestone alignment (issues attached to the earliest-due open
+    milestone outrank issues on later or no milestones)
+  - explicit `priority/*` or severity labels if present
+
+Tie-break: lowest issue number wins (oldest first).
+
+### 4. Surface target conventions into the impl prompt
+
+The implementation call (next slice) needs to follow the target repo's
+conventions. Read these files from `{{RALPH_WORK_DIR}}` if they exist —
+treat each as best-effort, missing files are fine:
+
+  - `CLAUDE.md`
+  - `AGENTS.md`
+  - `CONTEXT.md`
+  - any file under `docs/adr/` (architecture decision records)
+
+Quote the salient sections verbatim into the crafted impl prompt under a
+clearly-labeled "Target conventions" section. Do not summarize away
+material the impl call will need (commit message style, branch naming
+rules, build/test gotchas, do-not-touch directories).
+
+### 5. Find-or-create the milestone log issue
+
+If the picked issue has a milestone, find or create
+`[log] <milestone>` (label `meta:milestone-log`) and record the issue
+number in `milestone-log.json`. The orchestrator ships a helper —
+`gsm::find_or_create_milestone_log_issue` — but you can run the
+equivalent `gh` calls directly. Idempotent: existing log issue with
+that exact title is reused.
+
+### 6. Craft the impl prompt
+
+Write `/tmp/ralph/crafted-prompt.md`. Include, in this order:
+
+  1. Picked issue: number, title, URL, full body, label list, milestone.
+  2. Acceptance criteria (extracted verbatim from the issue body if a
+     `## Acceptance criteria` or similar heading is present).
+  3. Suggested branch name: `{{RALPH_BRANCH_PREFIX}}/<n>-<slug>` where
+     `<slug>` is a short kebab-case form of the issue title (≤40 chars,
+     ASCII alnum + dashes).
+  4. Build command and test command (from the inputs above).
+  5. Default branch (PR base): `{{RALPH_DEFAULT_BRANCH}}`.
+  6. Target conventions section (from step 4).
+  7. Recent caveman log entries from the milestone-log issue (if any) —
+     fetch the last 20 comments and quote them verbatim.
+  8. The literal line `Closes #<n>` so the impl call can paste it into
+     the PR body.
+
+Keep the impl prompt focused on what the implementation call needs —
+not a transcript of your discovery work.
+
+{{PROMPT_EXTENSION}}
+
+## Final instructions
+
+- Do not open a PR, do not push a branch, do not edit any file under
+  `{{RALPH_WORK_DIR}}`. This call is read-only on the target's working
+  tree.
+- Do not write anything to stdout that you wouldn't want grepped from
+  CloudWatch — emit a short status line at the very end summarizing the
+  decision (e.g. `discovery: picked #42`, `discovery: NONE`,
+  `discovery: ALL_BLOCKED`).
+- All four output files MUST exist when you exit, even if the decision
+  is `NONE` or `ALL_BLOCKED`. The orchestrator branches on
+  `decision.json.status` and will fail the run if any of the four files
+  is missing.

package/prompts/implementation.md

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+# ralph-harness — implementation call
+
+You are running on a throwaway EC2 worker, in a fresh clone of the
+target GitHub repository. The discovery call already picked one open
+`ready-for-agent` issue and wrote the crafted context (issue body,
+acceptance criteria, target conventions, recent caveman log entries) at
+the bottom of this prompt under "Crafted context from discovery". Your
+job in this call is to **implement the picked issue end-to-end on a
+fresh branch and open a PR**.
+
+This prompt is generic. Every target-specific value comes from runtime
+substitution and the crafted context; do not hard-code anything about
+the target.
+
+## Inputs
+
+- Target repo: `{{RALPH_TARGET_REPO}}`
+- Default branch (PR base): `{{RALPH_DEFAULT_BRANCH}}`
+- Working directory (fresh clone, on default branch): `{{RALPH_WORK_DIR}}`
+- Build command: `{{RALPH_BUILD_CMD}}`
+- Test command: `{{RALPH_TEST_CMD}}`
+- Branch prefix: `{{RALPH_BRANCH_PREFIX}}`
+- Agent-stuck label: `{{RALPH_AGENT_STUCK_LABEL}}`
+- Launch tag (embed in the PR body, see below): `{{RALPH_LAUNCH_TAG}}`
+
+You have `gh` authenticated against the target repo. You have `jq`. You
+may use the `serena`, `morph-mcp`, `context7`, `github`, and
+`sequential-thinking` MCPs. You do NOT have a memory MCP — every
+iteration starts with fresh context, and that is intentional.
+
+## Output contract — write `/tmp/ralph/impl-result.json`
+
+Exactly one of two shapes. Write this file before you exit, no matter
+what happens:
+
+```json
+{"status": "PR_OPENED",   "issue": <int>, "pr_number": <int>, "pr_url": "<url>", "branch": "<name>"}
+{"status": "AGENT_STUCK", "issue": <int>, "reason": "<≤500 chars>"}
+```
+
+The orchestrator branches on `status` and surfaces the result as the
+phase-end status marker for CloudWatch.
+
+## Procedure
+
+### 1. Read the crafted context
+
+The "Crafted context from discovery" section below contains the picked
+issue (number, full body, acceptance criteria, milestone, suggested
+branch name, target conventions, recent milestone-log entries).
+Internalize it before you touch code. The file
+`/tmp/ralph/crafted-prompt.md` holds the same content; the picked issue
+number is also in `/tmp/ralph/issue.json` under `.number`.
+
+### 2. Check out a fresh branch
+
+`cd {{RALPH_WORK_DIR}}`. Branch off `{{RALPH_DEFAULT_BRANCH}}`. Branch
+name: `{{RALPH_BRANCH_PREFIX}}/<n>-<slug>` where `<n>` is the picked
+issue number and `<slug>` is the kebab-case slug from the discovery
+context (≤40 chars, ASCII alnum + dashes).
+
+### 3. Implement
+
+Make the smallest correct change that satisfies every acceptance
+criterion in the crafted context. Follow the target's conventions
+surfaced under "Target conventions" (commit-message style, do-not-touch
+directories, build/test gotchas).
+
+After every meaningful edit, run `{{RALPH_BUILD_CMD}}` and
+`{{RALPH_TEST_CMD}}` and read the failures. Fix and re-run. Don't push
+until both are green.
+
+### 4. Bounded escape — `agent-stuck`
+
+Self-stop and label the source issue if ANY of these hits:
+
+  - more than 3 build/test fix iterations on the same failure surface
+  - more than 15 file edits without a green build
+  - self-judged futility — the issue cannot be solved with the
+    information available (e.g. missing target-side context that should
+    exist but does not)
+
+To self-stop:
+
+  1. Apply the `{{RALPH_AGENT_STUCK_LABEL}}` label to the source issue:
+
+         gh issue edit <n> --repo {{RALPH_TARGET_REPO}} \
+             --add-label "{{RALPH_AGENT_STUCK_LABEL}}"
+
+  2. Do NOT push a branch. Do NOT open a PR. Do NOT swap labels. Do
+     NOT append a milestone-log entry.
+  3. Write `/tmp/ralph/impl-result.json` with `status=AGENT_STUCK`,
+     `issue=<n>`, and a one-paragraph `reason` explaining what blocked
+     you. Use `jq -n` so the file is valid JSON.
+  4. Exit cleanly.
+
+### 5. On green build — commit, push, open PR
+
+One atomic commit with a message that follows the target's commit
+style. Push the branch (`git push -u origin <branch>`). Open the PR:
+
+    gh pr create \
+        --repo {{RALPH_TARGET_REPO}} \
+        --base {{RALPH_DEFAULT_BRANCH}} \
+        --head <branch> \
+        --title "<one-line title>" \
+        --body "<body>"
+
+The PR body MUST include, on their own lines:
+
+    Closes #<n>
+
+    <!-- ralph-launch: {{RALPH_LAUNCH_TAG}} -->
+
+The first line auto-closes the source issue when the PR merges. The
+HTML comment is invisible to humans but greppable; the launcher uses
+it to correlate post-hoc when the EC2 was hard-killed before this
+call could record state.
+
+### 6. Swap label and append milestone log
+
+Swap `ready-for-agent` → `ready-for-human` on the source issue:
+
+    gh issue edit <n> --repo {{RALPH_TARGET_REPO}} \
+        --remove-label ready-for-agent --add-label ready-for-human
+
+If `/tmp/ralph/milestone-log.json` has a non-null `log_issue`, append
+one caveman-format comment on it:
+
+    #<n> | <one-line summary of what shipped> | <gotcha or '-'>
+
+via `gh issue comment <log_issue> --repo {{RALPH_TARGET_REPO}}
+--body "<line>"`. One comment, no transcript dump.
+
+### 7. Write the result file
+
+```
+jq -n \
+    --argjson n  <issue-number> \
+    --argjson p  <pr-number> \
+    --arg     u  "<pr-url>" \
+    --arg     b  "<branch-name>" \
+    '{status:"PR_OPENED", issue:$n, pr_number:$p, pr_url:$u, branch:$b}' \
+    > /tmp/ralph/impl-result.json
+```
+
+{{PROMPT_EXTENSION}}
+
+## Final instructions
+
+- The four files written by the discovery call are still present under
+  `/tmp/ralph/` (`decision.json`, `issue.json`, `crafted-prompt.md`,
+  `milestone-log.json`). Read them; do not overwrite them.
+- Never echo a token, the OAuth credential, or any environment value
+  beginning with `GITHUB_` / `GH_` / `ANTHROPIC_` to stdout. CloudWatch
+  is the surface for these logs.
+- Emit a short status line at the very end summarizing what happened
+  (e.g. `implementation: PR #123 opened`,
+  `implementation: agent_stuck #<n>`).
+- `/tmp/ralph/impl-result.json` MUST exist when you exit. The
+  orchestrator fails the run if it is missing or not valid JSON.

package/prompts/review.md

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+# ralph-harness — review call
+
+You are running on a throwaway EC2 worker, in a fresh clone of the
+target GitHub repository. The implementation call already opened a PR
+on this branch for the picked issue. The bash orchestrator slept for
+ten minutes before invoking you, to give the configured external
+review bot time to post its consolidated verdict on the PR.
+
+Your job in this call is to **fetch the PR feedback, filter it to the
+configured review bot, and (if a verdict is present) apply ONE
+revision pass — push, then exit**. This is the only revision round.
+No follow-up rounds, no polling for newer reviews, no agent-vs-agent
+ping-pong.
+
+This prompt is generic. Every target-specific value comes from
+runtime substitution; do not hard-code anything about the target.
+
+## Inputs
+
+- Target repo: `{{RALPH_TARGET_REPO}}`
+- Default branch (PR base): `{{RALPH_DEFAULT_BRANCH}}`
+- Working directory (fresh clone, on default branch): `{{RALPH_WORK_DIR}}`
+- Build command: `{{RALPH_BUILD_CMD}}`
+- Test command: `{{RALPH_TEST_CMD}}`
+- Source issue number: `{{RALPH_ISSUE_NUMBER}}`
+- PR number: `{{RALPH_PR_NUMBER}}`
+- PR branch: `{{RALPH_PR_BRANCH}}`
+- Review bot username: `{{RALPH_REVIEW_BOT_USERNAME}}`
+- Review bot source: `{{RALPH_REVIEW_BOT_SOURCE}}` (one of: `comment`, `review`)
+
+You have `gh` authenticated against the target repo. You have `jq`.
+You may use the `serena`, `morph-mcp`, `context7`, `github`, and
+`sequential-thinking` MCPs. You do NOT have a memory MCP — every
+iteration starts with fresh context, and that is intentional.
+
+## Output contract — write `/tmp/ralph/review-result.json`
+
+Exactly one of two shapes. Write this file before you exit, no matter
+what happens:
+
+```json
+{"status": "NO_REVIEW",        "reason":  "<≤500 chars>"}
+{"status": "REVISION_APPLIED", "issue":   <int>, "pr_number": <int>,
+                               "summary": "<≤200 chars>",
+                               "gotcha":  "<≤200 chars or empty>"}
+```
+
+The orchestrator branches on `status`, surfaces the result as the
+phase-end status marker for CloudWatch, and on `REVISION_APPLIED`
+appends one caveman-format line to the milestone-log issue (via
+`gsm::append_caveman_log`) using `summary` and `gotcha`.
+
+## Procedure
+
+### 1. Fetch PR comments + reviews
+
+```
+gh pr view {{RALPH_PR_NUMBER}} --repo {{RALPH_TARGET_REPO}} \
+    --json comments,reviews \
+    > /tmp/ralph/pr-feedback.json
+```
+
+### 2. Filter to the configured review bot
+
+`{{RALPH_REVIEW_BOT_SOURCE}}` decides which collection to scan:
+
+  - `comment` — scan `.comments[]` for entries where
+    `.author.login == "{{RALPH_REVIEW_BOT_USERNAME}}"`
+  - `review`  — scan `.reviews[]`  for entries where
+    `.author.login == "{{RALPH_REVIEW_BOT_USERNAME}}"`
+
+ONLY the configured `review_bot` is consulted. Other reviewers
+(Copilot, humans, other bots) are out of scope for this call —
+ignore them entirely. Do not let a Copilot review prompt a revision.
+
+### 3. No verdict from the configured bot → no-op clean exit
+
+If the filter returns zero entries:
+
+  1. Do NOT push, comment, label, or touch any state.
+  2. Write `/tmp/ralph/review-result.json` with `status=NO_REVIEW`
+     and a one-line `reason` (e.g.
+     `"no comments from <bot> within the 10-minute window"`).
+  3. Exit cleanly. The orchestrator skips the caveman log entry on
+     `NO_REVIEW`.
+
+### 4. Verdict present → ONE revision pass
+
+Take the most recent matching entry as the review verdict. Check out
+the PR branch:
+
+```
+cd {{RALPH_WORK_DIR}}
+git fetch origin {{RALPH_PR_BRANCH}}
+git checkout {{RALPH_PR_BRANCH}}
+```
+
+Apply ONE pass that addresses the actionable feedback. Run
+`{{RALPH_BUILD_CMD}}` and `{{RALPH_TEST_CMD}}` after each meaningful
+edit until both are green. Make one atomic commit (message style:
+`review: address <bot> feedback`) and push:
+
+```
+git push origin {{RALPH_PR_BRANCH}}
+```
+
+DO NOT loop. DO NOT fetch newer reviews after pushing. DO NOT engage
+in further rounds. The harness's contract is exactly one revision
+round per iteration.
+
+### 5. Write the result file
+
+```
+jq -n \
+    --argjson n  {{RALPH_ISSUE_NUMBER}} \
+    --argjson p  {{RALPH_PR_NUMBER}} \
+    --arg     s  "<one-line summary of what changed>" \
+    --arg     g  "<one-line gotcha or empty>" \
+    '{status:"REVISION_APPLIED", issue:$n, pr_number:$p, summary:$s, gotcha:$g}' \
+    > /tmp/ralph/review-result.json
+```
+
+{{PROMPT_EXTENSION}}
+
+## Final instructions
+
+- One revision round only. Do not poll for follow-up reviews.
+- Never echo a token, the OAuth credential, or any environment value
+  beginning with `GITHUB_` / `GH_` / `ANTHROPIC_` to stdout.
+  CloudWatch is the surface for these logs.
+- Emit a short status line at the very end summarizing what
+  happened (e.g. `review: NO_REVIEW`,
+  `review: REVISION_APPLIED pr=<m>`).
+- `/tmp/ralph/review-result.json` MUST exist when you exit. The
+  orchestrator fails the run if it is missing or not valid JSON.