Autonomous Coding Agent: How Ralph’s 80-Line Bash Loop Ships Code While You Sleep

Let AI Ship Features While You Sleep: Inside Ralph’s Autonomous Coding Loop A step-by-step field guide to running Ralph—an 80-line Bash loop that turns a JSON backlog into shipped code without human interrupts. What This Article Answers Core question: How can a single Bash script let an AI agent finish an entire feature list overnight, safely and repeatably? One-sentence answer: Ralph repeatedly feeds your agent the next small user story, runs type-check & tests, commits on green, and stops only when every story is marked true—using nothing but Git, a JSON queue, and a text log for memory. 1. What …