Pickle Rick for Claude Code
An agentic engineering toolkit for Claude Code, built on the Ralph Wiggum loop, that turns a product requirements document into tickets and drives each one through research, planning, implementation, verification, review and simplification without human intervention.
Pickle Rick is an agentic engineering toolkit for Claude Code, built on the Ralph Wiggum loop and ideas from Andrej Karpathy's AutoResearch project. Given a product requirements document, or an interactive interview to draft one, it decomposes the work into tickets, spawns isolated worker subprocesses, and drives each ticket through a research, plan, implement, verify, review and simplify lifecycle with no human intervention required at each step.
A requirements document can be refined by three AI analysts running in parallel that examine requirements gaps, codebase integration points, and risk and scope, cross-referencing each other over several cycles before the plan is finalized. Every step can be driven either by describing what is wanted in plain language, letting the tool route to the matching skill, or by invoking the corresponding slash command directly for explicit control, and a pipeline command chains the whole build, audit and cleanup sequence automatically.
It is written in JavaScript, runs inside tmux, and is licensed under Apache-2.0.