dev-loop

A command for a full feature-development loop: brainstorming, planning, implementation, pull-request creation, and repeated review. A pull request is a proposed set of code changes submitted for review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to take a feature request from an interactive design discussion through an implementation plan, GitHub issue, pull request, smoke tests, and review.
Why use it?
It brings planning, coding, testing, simplification, code review, and security review into one guided process.

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/yorrick/agent-skills/dev-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yorrick/agent-skills
Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,001 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 $0.00027 $0.01001
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00500
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00100

Measured 2d ago against content hash d94986649844, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev-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.

dev-loop/commands/dev-loop.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Development Loop

You are orchestrating a full feature development cycle.

The user's feature request is: $ARGUMENTS

Follow these phases exactly.

Phase 0: Check dependencies

Verify the script exists by running this using the Bash tool:

uv run "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/dev-loop.py" --help

If uv or the script fails, tell the user they need uv installed (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/).

Phase 1: Brainstorm (interactive)

Invoke the superpowers:brainstorming skill and follow it exactly. Use the feature request above as the starting point. This is interactive — ask the user questions, explore approaches, and get design approval.

The brainstorming skill will transition to the writing-plans skill automatically. Follow that too — produce a complete implementation plan saved to docs/plans/.

Note the plan file path when done.

During brainstorming, make sure the spec includes a ## Validation section describing how to verify the feature works locally (e.g., start the server and hit an endpoint, run the CLI with specific args). This is used by the automated smoke test step after implementation.

Phase 1b: Create GitHub issue with the plan

After the plan is written and approved:

  1. Read the plan file content
  2. Create a GitHub issue using the gh CLI with the plan as the body:

gh issue create --title "" --body "$(cat )"

  1. Note the issue URL returned by gh. This will be passed to the script so all implementation steps reference the GitHub issue as the source of truth.

Phase 2: Hand off to automated loop

Once the issue is created, run the dev-loop orchestrator script.

Before running the script:

  1. Check if the current branch already has an open PR: gh pr view --json url --jq .url
  2. If a PR exists, tell the user and recommend using --continue-pr to implement on the current branch and review against the existing PR
  3. Show them the GitHub issue URL
  4. Show the exact command that will be run
  5. Ask if they want to adjust --max-iterations (default 3), use --skip-permissions, or set --reviewers

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

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 · 85 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A d94986649844

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dev-loop is a command published in the GitHub repository yorrick/agent-skills (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,001 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.