loop

A command that starts an iterative development loop and keeps feeding the same task to the coding agent after each attempted exit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for tasks such as refactoring or adding tests that may benefit from multiple implementation rounds.
Why use it?
It allows the agent to improve work across repeated passes while seeing changes saved in files and version history.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/vcz-gray/loophaus/loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vcz-Gray/loophaus
Per session 4 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 223 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00004 $0.00223
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00112
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00022

Measured 2d ago against content hash b7052ad229ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

loop scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/loop.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

/loop — Start Iterative Dev Loop

Pre-flight

Run loophaus update-check quietly before starting. If it reports an available update and auto-upgrade is enabled, run loophaus upgrade and continue. If it reports an available update and auto-upgrade is disabled, show one-line notice: loophaus update available. Run: loophaus upgrade. If the check fails or no update is available, continue silently.


Execute the setup script to initialize the loop:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/setup-loop.mjs" $ARGUMENTS

Work on the task. When you try to exit, the stop hook feeds the SAME PROMPT back for the next iteration. Your previous work persists in files and git history.

CRITICAL: If a completion promise is set, ONLY output it when genuinely complete. Do not output false promises to escape the loop.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 27 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A b7052ad229ed

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loop is a command published in the GitHub repository vcz-Gray/loophaus (23 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 223 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.