What is install-loop?

A setup command for Loop Engineering, a project workflow that tracks recurring maintenance work and reports its status.

Use it to detect an existing Loop setup, run its health checks, choose a work pattern and coding tool, and scaffold the setup with the Loop command-line interface.

It gives a repository a consistent, report-only starting point for handling priorities, stalled pull requests, failing checks, dependency alerts, and other routine work.

install-loop — Skill by cobusgreyling

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/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/install-loop

Any agent

npx skills add cobusgreyling/loop-engineering --skill install-loop

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 735 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00059	$0.00735
Opus 5	$0.00030	$0.00367
Sonnet 5	$0.00012	$0.00147
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash 294cdff785a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

install-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 2d 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.

skills/install-loop/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Install Loop Engineering

Goal

Leave the repo with a scaffolded report-only loop, a Loop Ready score, and clear next actions — using the single CLI:

npx @cobusgreyling/loop

Do not deprecate or remove existing loop-init / loop-audit usages you find; both doors stay valid. Prefer loop for new work.

Steps

Detect context
- If LOOP.md or STATE.md already exists, run doctor only (skip init unless human asks to re-scaffold):
```
npx @cobusgreyling/loop doctor . --json
npx @cobusgreyling/loop status .
```
- Otherwise continue.

Pick pattern (default: daily-triage)

Pain	Pattern
Morning chaos / unclear priorities	`daily-triage`
PRs stalling	`pr-babysitter`
CI red / flakes	`ci-sweeper`
CVE / Dependabot noise	`dependency-sweeper`
Post-merge TODOs	`post-merge-cleanup`
Stale release notes	`changelog-drafter`
Noisy issues	`issue-triage`
One GitHub Action, almost no files	`thin-loop`

Pick tool — claude | grok | codex | opencode (default claude).
Scaffold
```
npx @cobusgreyling/loop init . --pattern <pattern> --tool <tool>
```
Optional harness (only if human wants Foundry): add --with-foundry.
Doctor
```
npx @cobusgreyling/loop doctor .
```
- Exit 0 = healthy · 1 = warnings · 2 = blocked
- Follow the top 3 printed actions; do not invent extra architecture.

Cost check before high-cadence schedules:

npx @cobusgreyling/loop cost -p <pattern> -l L1 -c 1d

Week-one rule
- Report only. No auto-fix, no auto-merge.
- Tell the human the first /loop or scheduler command from init output.
- Suggest badge only when score is strong: npx @cobusgreyling/loop badge .

Compatibility

These remain fully supported (do not rewrite existing docs/scripts unless asked):

npx @cobusgreyling/loop-init .
npx @cobusgreyling/loop-audit . --suggest

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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.

2d ago First seen · 82 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 294cdff785a1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

install-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository cobusgreyling/loop-engineering (10,738 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 735 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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