Ralph Orchestrator

A few months ago I learned about Geoff Huntley’s ralph-wiggum technique. The claims were outrageous so I had to give it a go myself. I’ve enjoyed making meta-tools in the past so I tasked a primitive ralph loop to build itself a ralph orchestrator. First, I ran a few ralph loops to gather everything it could from the internet on ralph to build a ralph knowledge base. I then used this knowledge base to let it rip for a few hours. A few hours passed and the ralph-orchestrator tool was born. Not only that, it created an entire mkdocs website describing the ralph process, how to use it, questionable deployment and usage docs, and an over-emphasis on it being “production ready”. I got a kick out of it, used it a handful of times for various other greenfield projects and research tasks, but wasn’t entirely sure how to harness it for day-to-day tasks.

Fast forward a few months and Ralph Wiggum is picking up steam again… Anthropic’s added an official Ralph Wiggum plugin. To my surprise, I came across the ralph-orchestrator mentioned as a resource in the plugin’s README docs and people seem to be using it! This was slightly embarrassing given I hadn’t spent much time thoroughly vetting it (sorry to those who are using it and claimed features don’t work). That said, it looks like I now have an unexpected project that I am committed to maintaining. Bear with me as I get it up to a quality bar that I’m thoroughly proud of.