Loop

Skill thepictishbeast/claude-tools/skills/loop

Pause, resume, edit, and audit Claude Code cron jobs (e.g. /loop) without losing state.

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npx -y skills add thepictishbeast/claude-tools --skill loop

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Manage active Claude Code /loop cron jobs — pause, resume, stop/cancel, edit (interval/prompt), track an untracked cron into history, or update the claude-tools install. Use whenever the user wants to pause / resume / stop / cancel / kill / change / reschedule a loop, register an existing cron, or upgrade loop tooling. Pass the verb as the first argument (e.g. "pause", "resume 5m", "stop", "edit", "track <id>", "update").

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/loop — manage Claude Code loop cron jobs (Rust-binary backed)

One skill for the whole loop-management family (consolidated from the former loop-pause / loop-resume / loop-stop / loop-edit / loop-track / loop-update skills, 2026-06-30). Backed by the claude-loop binary (~/.local/bin/claude-loop, built by claude-tools install.sh). The binary owns every shell op (state JSON, history, locking); the agent only makes the Cron* tool calls. Route on the first argument (the verb):

Verb	Does	Mechanism
`pause`	Pause all active loops; save state for resume	`CronList` → pipe its JSON to `claude-loop pause` → `CronDelete` the returned IDs
`resume [interval]`	Restore paused loops (optional new cadence)	`claude-loop resume [--interval <i>]` → `CronCreate` ×N from its JSON-line output
`stop`	Permanently stop a loop (delete cron + clear paused state)	`CronList` → `CronDelete` the entry; clear `~/.claude/.paused-loops.json`
`edit`	Change interval/prompt without losing the prompt	`CronList` (full prompt) → `CronDelete <old>` → `CronCreate` with the edits
`track <id>`	Register a raw cron into loop history	`CronList` (verify id) → `claude-loop` logs a `discovered` event
`update`	Pull latest claude-tools + reinstall skills/binaries	run `~/projects/claude-tools/update.sh -f`; report which commits arrived
(none)	Show current loop state	defer to the `loops` skill (`claude-loop list`)

Rules

Never inline-truncate prompts. CronList truncates prompts at ~80 chars; for edit / track / resume read the full prompt from the binary's state file, not the truncated CronList view.
Each verb is a thin path — 2–3 visible tool calls (one Bash to the binary + the Cron* calls). Let the binary do the file work.
pause / resume are symmetric (state in ~/.claude/.paused-loops.json). stop is terminal — no state kept.
Pipe every loop prompt through claude-loop prep before CronCreate — it injects the canonical SCHEDULED-LOOP self-check preamble (idempotent), so every fire carries it by construction.
Crash-safety lives in claude-loop guard / checkpoint / watchdog; see docs/LOOP_PATTERNS.md.

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