skills

Autonomous loop iteration toward a desired state. You are inside a ralph loop — your spec is in the system prompt. Survey, contribute, update state discoverably, exit. Activated automatically inside ralph loops. Triggers: "ralph-loops", "ralph", "ralph loop", "iterate", "autonomous loop".

Consult the other coding agent — Claude Code calls Codex, Codex calls Claude Code. Use for second opinions, code review, consensus, or dispatching tasks to the other agent. Two modes: one-shot for quick questions, tmux session for extended collaboration. Triggers: "confer", "ask claude", "ask codex", "second opinion", "get a review from", "use claude for", "use codex for", "dispatch to".

Draft a ralph constitution — a markdown spec describing a desired state for autonomous iteration. Study the problem space, shape the spec interactively, then launch the ralph loop. Use for any work where adaptation matters more than a fixed plan: science, refactoring, exploration, creative work. Triggers: "constitution", "constitute", "ralph spec", "set up a ralph", "create a ralph", "write a spec".

REQUIRED for all image generation requests. Generate and edit images using Gemini CLI with persistent visual memory via KV cache warmth. Use whenever the user asks to create, generate, make, draw, design, or edit any image or visual content.

Create data visualizations, design figures, and plot analysis results. Specialized for observational cosmology (spectra, covariances, posteriors, sky maps) but capable of creative/expressive output for outreach. Use when: plotting data, designing figures for papers/talks, visualizing uncertainty, creating publication-quality graphics, or any task involving matplotlib/seaborn/plotly. Triggers on: "plot", "figure", "visualize", "chart", "graph", "histogram", "scatter", "heatmap", "contour", "power spectrum", "corner plot", or any request to create or improve data graphics.

Read arXiv paper source and add BibTeX entries via ADS API. Use for research that requires reading full paper text and managing citations. Triggers on: "read paper", "cite", "add to bibliography", "bibtex", "ADS", "arXiv", "find paper", "add citation", or any request to read scientific papers or manage references.

Speak text aloud using local TTS. Use when the user wants to hear something read out loud, spoken, voiced, narrated, or audibly rendered. Triggers on: "read this aloud", "say this", "speak", "out loud", "tell me [verbally]", "narrate", "voice this", "hear this", "read to me", "TTS", or any request to audibly render text.

Implement scientific analysis code with quality and correctness following research workflow standards. Use when writing research code, implementing algorithms, creating analysis scripts, or developing scientific computations. Triggers on: "implement", "write code", "code this up", "analysis script", "algorithm", "compute", "calculate", or any request to write or implement scientific/numerical code.