loop-limit

A loop safeguard that stops a repeating workflow after a chosen number of iterations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Place it near the start of a loop and give it a positive maximum iteration count.
Why use it?
It prevents an automated process from running forever when its stopping condition is not reached.

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/circui-try/circuit/loop-limit
Any agent
npx skills add CIrcui-try/Circuit --skill loop-limit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CIrcui-try/Circuit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 137 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 $0.00014 $0.00137
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00068
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00027
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00014

Measured yesterday against content hash c0dbb2ca1812, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

loop-limit 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.

app/src-tauri/default-skills/.codex/skills/loop-limit/SKILL.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

loop-limit

Common workflow skill for cycle workflows.

$ARGUMENTS format: <max-iterations>.

Place this node near the start of a loop. Circuit compares the current internal loop iteration with <max-iterations>.

  • If the current iteration is less than or equal to <max-iterations>, the skill succeeds and the loop continues.
  • If the current iteration is greater than <max-iterations>, the skill fails and stops the loop.
  • <max-iterations> must be a positive integer.
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 · 18 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A c0dbb2ca1812

Subscribe to this mod's changes

loop-limit is a skill published in the GitHub repository CIrcui-try/Circuit (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 137 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.