setup-agenticloop

A one-time setup guide for Agentic Loop, a project workflow for coordinating AI-assisted development tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up Agentic Loop in a project, confirm its project map, or update the project's development-stage profile.
Why use it?
It resolves unclear project documents and records which files, task format, development stage, and implementation limits the project uses, so later agents do not need to rediscover them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/bartoszarendt/agenticloop/setup-agenticloop
Any agent
npx skills add bartoszarendt/agenticloop --skill setup-agenticloop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bartoszarendt/agenticloop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,240 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 $0.00098 $0.03240
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01620
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00648
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00324

Measured yesterday against content hash ad19a357a4e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-agenticloop 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/setup-agenticloop/SKILL.md · 348 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 348 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup Agentic Loop

This is an interactive setup and human-controlled profile-update skill. It is maintainer-run or human-run. Run it when:

  • setting up Agentic Loop in a target project for the first time,
  • source document names are non-standard or ambiguous,
  • .agenticloop/project.md is setup_status: unconfirmed,
  • .agenticloop/project.md needs confirmed typed document selections.
  • a confirmed project needs its one-time development-stage migration or a human wants to confirm a later development-stage transition.

Do not use this skill for routine runtime document lookup. At runtime, agents read .agenticloop/project.md for overrides and fall back to conventional names. This skill performs one-time discovery so runtime agents do not need to scan the repository.

What This Skill Does

  1. Scan bounded candidate paths once.
  2. Propose detected documents by role, detected grouping profile, inferred task ID style, backend choice, development stage, and implementation-lane maximum.
  3. Ask the human to confirm before writing.
  4. Write confirmed project-map values and setup confirmation state to .agenticloop/project.md.
  5. Preserve existing .agenticloop/project.md content where possible.

After this skill runs, future runtime agents use convention-first lookup plus the confirmed overrides recorded here.

Setup is complete only after the maintainer or human confirms:

  • document role selections,
  • task ID pattern and regex,
  • grouping profile,
  • backend choice.
  • one development stage: greenfield, expansion, stabilization, or maintenance.

Candidate Files to Detect

Use the canonical document-role registry in agenticloop/config.json. Scan only these bounded candidates once:

rules

  • AGENTS.md
  • CLAUDE.md
  • GEMINI.md

plan

  • IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md
  • PLAN.md
  • ROADMAP.md
  • docs/roadmap.md

overview

  • README.md
  • docs/overview.md

process

  • agenticloop/AGENTIC_LOOP.md

spec

  • SPEC.md
  • SPECS.md
  • PRD.md
  • REQUIREMENTS.md
  • docs/spec.md
  • docs/specs/
  • docs/prd/

Read the full file on GitHub · 348 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. yesterday First seen · 348 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A ad19a357a4e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-agenticloop is a skill published in the GitHub repository bartoszarendt/agenticloop (2 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 3,240 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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