zetetic-loop

zetetic-loop is a plugin for Codex, Gemini CLI from cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents. Its token cost is not measured, scanned A, original, MIT.

A goal-based work cycle that turns a desired result into checkable conditions, runs real commands to test them, and uses the evidence to plan the next attempt.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan, implement, verify, and refine coding tasks against a defined goal.
Why use it?
It replaces vague progress checks with explicit acceptance conditions and command-based verification.

Plugin for CodexGemini CLI

Written for Codex and Gemini CLI: agents/openai.yaml present, but also a Gemini CLI extension manifest.

Good fit Use it to plan, implement, verify, and refine coding tasks against a defined goal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/zetetic-loop
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents

Made for: Codex, Gemini CLI.

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When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

zetetic-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 29d 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.

plugins/zetetic-loop/gemini-extension.json · 6 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "zetetic-loop",
  "version": "1.1.0",
  "description": "Goal-driven iteration for any host: compile a goal contract with executable acceptance checks, plan against it, verify with real commands, and refine the next iteration from the evidence."
}
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. 29d ago First seen · 6 lines scan A 07a893963719

Subscribe to this mod's changes

zetetic-loop is a plugin published in the GitHub repository cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents (7 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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 2026-09-17.

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