Claude Code
Best when you are still steering.
Claude Code is strong when you want to collaborate live with an agent and steer the work turn by turn.
Alternative
Interactive coding agent
Claude Code keeps you close. Ralph Workflow lets the work keep moving.
Claude Code is strong when you want to collaborate live with an agent and steer the work turn by turn. Ralph Workflow fits when the task is clear, the standard matters, and you want a background run with planning, checks, recovery, and a receipt.
Ralph Workflow
Best when the work can run without you.
wraps coding agents in a repeatable background workflow that plans, builds, verifies, fixes, and reports back.
Use both
Explore first, delegate second.
Shape uncertainty interactively, then hand Ralph Workflow a brief when the success criteria are checkable.
ralphplan the task from PROMPT.mdbuild in the configured workspacerun verification and fix failuresfinish receipt ready for review