performance-audit

Clorch is an orchestration layer for [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code) that transforms it from a single-threaded assistant into a multi-agent system with persistent memory, specialized skills, and intelligent context management.

Think of it as an operating system for AI-assisted development:

• Without Clorch: You interact with one Claude instance that forgets everything between sessions, handles all tasks generically, and struggles with large codebases.
• With Clorch: An orchestrator analyzes your request, spawns specialized agents in parallel, loads relevant expertise, remembers past decisions, and manages context so it never overflows.

Clorch is built on the RLM (Recursive Language Model) paradigm from [arXiv:2512.24601](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24601)—treating large contexts as data to be processed recursively rather than crammed into a single prompt. This enables Claude to handle codebases and research tasks that would otherwise exceed its context window.

Who is it for?

• Developers who use Claude Code daily and want more power
• Teams managing large codebases where context overflow is a constant problem
• Anyone who wants Claude to remember decisions, follow conventions, and work in parallel

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Clorch provides two complementary modes for different workflows:

| Mode | Use Case | How It Works |

|------|----------|--------------|

| Interactive | Active development, debugging, exploration | Orchestrator spawns parallel agents, manages context, returns synthesized results |

| Ralph (Autonomous) | Large tasks, AFK coding, overnight batch work | External bash loop runs fresh Claude per iteration until all tasks complete |

```

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐

│ INTERACTIVE MODE │

│ You: "Fix the auth bug" │

│ ↓ │

│ Clorch: scout → investigate │ sleuth → root cause │ spark → fix │

│ ↓ │

│ You: Review and approve changes │

└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐

│ RALPH MODE (Autonomous) │

│ You: /ralph "implement user dashboard with tests" │

│ ↓ │

│ Clorch: Analyzes codebase, creates task list, opens terminal │

│ ↓ │

│ Ralph: Fresh Claude per iteration → completes all tasks │

│ ↓ │

│ You: /ralph validate → review results │

└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

```

Ralph is named after Ralph Wiggu