ECC is a toolkit that organizes and improves how coding agents work through skills, memory, security checks, research practices, and related extensions. It is for developers using agents such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Cursor.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to affaan-m/ECC. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
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- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 19 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Excessive Agency · line 57 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 60 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 63 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 66 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 81 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 84 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 87 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 94 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 101 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 104 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 342 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 345 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 360 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 363 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 366 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 369 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 576 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- high Excessive Agency · line 579 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
- medium Rogue Agent · line 57 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00026 | $0.05529 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00013 | $0.02764 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.01106 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00553 |
Grade A, and why
autonomous-loops 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 4d 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.
Copies of this mod
8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- autonomous-loops — 100% identical, 28 lines differ
- autonomous-loops — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- autonomous-loops — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- autonomous-loops — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- autonomous-loops — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
- autonomous-loops — 98% identical, 26 lines differ
- autonomous-loops — 97% identical, 130 lines differ
- autonomous-loops — 97% identical, 8 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 611 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Autonomous Loops Skill
Compatibility note (v1.8.0):
autonomous-loopsis retained for one release. The canonical skill name is nowcontinuous-agent-loop. New loop guidance should be authored there, while this skill remains available to avoid breaking existing workflows.
Patterns, architectures, and reference implementations for running Claude Code autonomously in loops. Covers everything from simple claude -p pipelines to full RFC-driven multi-agent DAG orchestration.
When to Use
- Setting up autonomous development workflows that run without human intervention
- Choosing the right loop architecture for your problem (simple vs complex)
- Building CI/CD-style continuous development pipelines
- Running parallel agents with merge coordination
- Implementing context persistence across loop iterations
- Adding quality gates and cleanup passes to autonomous workflows
Loop Pattern Spectrum
From simplest to most sophisticated:
| Pattern | Complexity | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Sequential Pipeline | Low | Daily dev steps, scripted workflows |
| NanoClaw REPL | Low | Interactive persistent sessions |
| Infinite Agentic Loop | Medium | Parallel content generation, spec-driven work |
| Continuous Claude PR Loop | Medium | Multi-day iterative projects with CI gates |
| De-Sloppify Pattern | Add-on | Quality cleanup after any Implementer step |
| Ralphinho / RFC-Driven DAG | High | Large features, multi-unit parallel work with merge queue |
1. Sequential Pipeline (claude -p)
The simplest loop. Break daily development into a sequence of non-interactive claude -p calls. Each call is a focused step with a clear prompt.
Core Insight
If you can't figure out a loop like this, it means you can't even drive the LLM to fix your code in interactive mode.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 611 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 25431f497ec2
autonomous-loops is a skill published in the GitHub repository affaan-m/ECC (253,158 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 5,529 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 2026-09-03.
Other skills, from other repositories
pr-babysitter
Monitors or repairs an open GitHub PR: CI failures, conflicts, review threads, and merge readiness, reporting state changes. Use when asked to "watch this PR", "fix CI", "resolve conflicts", or "address review comments". For PR metadata use pr-creator; for npm release PRs use autoship.
scaffold-cli
Scaffolds a TypeScript CLI and npm package with the house toolchain, dual tsdown outputs, CLI contracts, changesets, and publishing templates. Use when asked to "scaffold a CLI" or "start an npm package". For an existing package release use autoship; for existing API ergonomics use dx-audit.
audit-harness
Use when auditing HARNESS.md, pre-commit hooks, pre-push hooks, architecture gates, or CI workflows for tunacode-cli. This skill treats any mismatch, skipped gate, or failing check as a critical failure and requires manual one-by-one execution rather than make targets, batch wrappers, or summary-only audits.
baby-sit
Monitor a GitHub pull request until CI is green, diagnose failures, and rerun only evidence-backed flaky GitHub Actions jobs.
memstack-deployment-ci-cd-pipeline
Use this skill when the user says 'CI/CD', 'GitHub Actions', 'pipeline', 'continuous integration', 'continuous deployment', 'ci-cd-pipeline', 'automate deploys', or needs to set up automated build, test, and deployment pipelines. Do NOT use for one-time manual deployments.
spawn-reviewers
Spawn and collect the reviewer fleet at stage20spawnreviewers. Consumes spawn.json.spec (the authoritative spawn spec from derive-spawn-spec / derive-static-spec), resolves GRAPHPROJECT, builds per-agent prompts from the per-agent template + role suffixes (Bug Hunter A/B, Unified Auditor, Domain Critics, Impact…