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How to Customize Quality Check Commands for Linting and Typechecking in Ralph Prompts

April 13, 2026 snarktank/ralph ↗

You customize quality check commands in Ralph by editing the "Project-specific quality check commands" section inside your local prompt.md (for Amp) or CLAUDE.md (for Claude Code) file, replacing the placeholders with whatever lint, typecheck, or test commands your project requires.

Ralph is an AI coding workflow tool from the snarktank/ralph repository that automates the implementation of user stories through structured iteration prompts. When the AI agent reaches step 6 of its cycle, it executes the **quality check commands

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Add to your MCP client configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "instagit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "instagit@latest"]
    }
  }
}

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