Continuous agent loop

Skill loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes/skills/continuous-agent-loop

Patterns for continuous autonomous agent loops with quality gates, evals, and recovery controls.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add loulanyue/awesome-claude-notes --skill continuous-agent-loop

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SKILL.md

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Continuous Agent Loop

This is the v1.8+ canonical loop skill name. It supersedes autonomous-loops while keeping compatibility for one release.

Loop Selection Flow

Start
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  +-- Need strict CI/PR control? -- yes --> continuous-pr
  |                                    
  +-- Need RFC decomposition? -- yes --> rfc-dag
  |
  +-- Need exploratory parallel generation? -- yes --> infinite
  |
  +-- default --> sequential

Combined Pattern

Recommended production stack:

RFC decomposition (ralphinho-rfc-pipeline)
quality gates (plankton-code-quality + /quality-gate)
eval loop (eval-harness)
session persistence (nanoclaw-repl)

Failure Modes

loop churn without measurable progress
repeated retries with same root cause
merge queue stalls
cost drift from unbounded escalation

Recovery

freeze loop
run /harness-audit
reduce scope to failing unit
replay with explicit acceptance criteria

What ships with it

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Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.

Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most agent orchestration skills give in 229 tokens

Counted across 848 of the 1,300 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06

Dispatch one agent per independent problem domainin 56 of 848, across 42 files
Run full test suite after integrationin 55 of 848, across 42 files
Verify fixes do not conflictin 40 of 848, across 32 files
Review each summary when agents returnin 40 of 848, across 31 files
Write a handoff document summarising the current conversationin 30 of 848, across 25 files
Reference existing artifacts by path or URLin 26 of 848, across 24 files
Give each agent a specific scopein 19 of 848, across 10 files
Give each agent a clear goalin 19 of 848, across 10 files
Include a suggested skills section in the documentin 18 of 848, across 16 files
Tailor the doc to the user argumentsin 18 of 848, across 15 files
Issue all subagent dispatches in the same responsein 17 of 848, across 11 files
Use git worktrees for isolationin 17 of 848, across 8 files

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