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Resume a PAUSED Ralph session — retry failed task, skip, or abort

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Ralph Resume

Resume a Ralph autonomous execution session that was paused by the circuit breaker.

Pre-Flight

  1. Check for active session:

    if [[ ! -d ".ralph-session" ]]; then
  echo "No Ralph session found. Nothing to resume."
  exit
fi

  2. Read circuit breaker state:

    .claude/hooks/circuit-breaker.sh status

  3. Show session summary:

    python3 -c "
import json
cb = json.load(open('.ralph-session/circuit-breaker.json'))
print(f\"Session state: {cb.get('state')}\")
print(f\"Pause reason: {cb.get('pause_reason', 'none')}\")
print(f\"Tasks completed: {cb.get('tasks_completed', 0)}\")
print(f\"Total iterations: {cb.get('total_iterations', 0)}\")
print(f\"Consecutive failures: {cb.get('consecutive_failures', 0)}\")
"

  4. Identify the failed/current task: Check beads for tasks still in in_progress status.

Present Options

Ask the user:

  1. Retry — Reset circuit breaker to RUNNING, re-dispatch the failed task
  2. Skip — Mark the failed task as blocked with reason, move to next task
  3. Abort — Clean up session, leave remaining tasks as pending

Execute Choice

Option 1: Retry

.claude/hooks/circuit-breaker.sh clear-degraded  # or reset if PAUSED
.claude/hooks/circuit-breaker.sh reset

Then re-enter the ralph-execute loop from the current task.

Option 2: Skip

bd update <task-id> -s blocked --append-notes "Skipped during Ralph resume — failed after max attempts"
.claude/hooks/circuit-breaker.sh reset

Then continue ralph-execute with bd ready --parent <epic-id>.

Option 3: Abort

rm -rf .ralph-session
curl -s -X POST "https://ntfy.sh/property-tracker-claude" \
  -d "Ralph session aborted by user" -H "Title: Ralph Aborted"

Integration

This skill is suggested by session-start.sh when it detects an active Ralph session. After choosing retry or skip, invoke /ralph-execute <epic-id> to continue the loop.