loop-engineering

loop-engineering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim. It costs 24 tokens per session (336 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for running an engineering task repeatedly until a defined check succeeds. It combines an interview about the goal with an executor and a verifier, such as a test, build, lint check, command, or human review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for tasks verified by tests, builds, linting, commands, file existence, automated observers, or manual approval, with escalation when attempts fail.
Why use it?
It makes success explicit and tracks attempts, while allowing a separate check to confirm whether the work is complete.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for tasks verified by tests, builds, linting, commands, file existence, automated observers, or manual approval, with escalation when attempts fail.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim/loop-engineering
About the project

oh-my-opencode-slim is a plugin that coordinates multiple specialized AI agents inside OpenCode, assigning codebase exploration, documentation research, architecture review, design, and implementation to different agents. It is for developers who want agent teams to divide and reconcile software-development work while mixing models from different providers. The catalogue entries are the plugin’s bundled agents, skills, and instruction.

alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim · 9,686 stars · on GitHub · ohmyopencodeslim.com

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.

Any agent
npx skills add alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim --skill loop-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 336 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00024 $0.00336
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00134
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00034

Measured 4d ago against content hash f51b2f1f9f3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

loop-engineering 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.

src/skills/loop-engineering/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Loop Engineering Skill

Grill (orchestrator interview)

  1. Goal: "What are you trying to accomplish?"
  2. Success criteria: "Describe how we know the loop succeeded."
  3. Success type: choose from test, build, lint, command, fileExists, oracle, observer, manual. For CLI steps provide successCommand; for file detection provide successPath.
  4. Execute agent: fixer / designer / explorer
  5. Verify agent: oracle / observer / test
  6. Max attempts (default 3)
  7. Optional context files: which files or directories should be read before execution?

Loop Monitor

  • Listen to callbacks:
    • onLoopComplete(loopID, success) → report final outcome
    • onEscalated(loopID, reason) → escalate to human
    • onManualReview(loopID, reason) → prompt human to approve/fail and call resolveManualReview(loopID, passed, reason)
  • Show current state and attempt count on each callback
  • For manual verification, present the failure reason before asking for pass/fail
  • If human forces cancellation, call cancel(loopID) through the orchestrator

Notes

  • Manual verification is the minimal on-ramp (autoresearch pattern). It pauses the loop until resolveManualReview is called. Do not auto-resolve.
  • BackgroundJobBoard signals (totalErrors, timeoutCount) are already baked into the runtime.
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. 4d ago Changed · +14 tokens per session f51b2f1f9f3e
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 31 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 551b298be29a

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loop-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim (9,686 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 336 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.