A ralph loop is a coding agent in a while loop. What it is, why it resets context each pass, and how to run one without it spinning forever or costing $200 overnight.

July 1, 2026

aiai-agentsclaude-codecli+2

Earning the overnight run: ralphctl from 0.8 to 0.13

Last post I confessed ralphctl broke users' data four times in a week with no clean fix. Ten releases later, it has one. The unglamorous month that took the harness from 'works in the demo' to something I trust to run overnight: safe migrations, a memory, parallel tasks, a real budget.

June 26, 2026

aiai-agentsclaude-codecli+3

MCP server OAuth2 in Spring: the DCR proxy pattern

A Spring Authorization Server that adds Dynamic Client Registration in front of an IdP that can't, keeping a Spring AI MCP server connectable to AI clients

June 24, 2026

oauth2mcpai-agentsspring-boot+4

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What a ralph loop actually is, and how to run one without burning your tokens

Earning the overnight run: ralphctl from 0.8 to 0.13

MCP server OAuth2 in Spring: the DCR proxy pattern