The user wanted to know if the planning process would produce more output after initially appearing to stall. They also requested to use a newer model version called Opus 4. 6 instead of the default one.
When I run in plan mode, I get the following output and it seems to just sit there. Should I expect more? jc@Gizmo:~/src/mage$ ralph plan.md plan
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RALPH - Autonomous AI Development Loop
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Plan: plan.md
Mode: plan
Progress: plan_PROGRESS.md
Commit: enabled
Notify: Discord
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Exit conditions:
Let me look at the ralph script to understand what's happening in plan mode.
The script is working - it's just processing. After the banner and exit conditions, it does several things before showing visible output:
claude -p --dangerously-skip-permissions --model sonnet --verbose piping in the promptThe most likely reason it appears to hang is:
claude -p command on line 723 takes time to process - it's running Claude in non-interactive pipe mode, which can take 30+ seconds with no visible output since stdout/stderr go to temp filesYou should eventually see "Lock acquired", then "ITERATION 1", then silence while Claude processes. After Claude finishes, you'll see its output and then the "Planning complete!" banner.
If you want to verify it's not truly stuck, you can:
plan_PROGRESS.md file was created in your working directoryls /tmp/ralph_*.lockclaude process is running: ps aux | grep claudeIf the Discord webhook is misconfigured or unreachable, that alone could add ~14 seconds of delay (3 retries with exponential backoff) before the script moves on. You could also try running with notifications disabled to see if that's the bottleneck.
I want to use the latest model - opus 4.6. Is that something I can set?
The model is hardcoded to sonnet on line 723-726 of ralph.sh:
There's no config option for it currently. Want me to make the model configurable via ~/.ralph.env with a RALPH_MODEL variable, defaulting to the current sonnet behavior? Then you'd just add:
export RALPH_MODEL="claude-opus-4-6"
to your ~/.ralph.env to use Opus 4.6.
Yes, let's make it configurable.
Done. Three changes made:
RALPH_MODEL="${RALPH_MODEL:-sonnet}" — defaults to sonnet if not set$RALPH_MODEL instead of hardcoded sonnetTo use Opus 4.6, add this to your ~/.ralph.env:
export RALPH_MODEL="claude-opus-4-6"
Or override it for a single run:
RALPH_MODEL=claude-opus-4-6 ralph plan.md plan