powerloop

A scheduled workflow that runs a repeating software task through planning, implementation, review, and sample checks. Cron is the system scheduler that starts the workflow at set times.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for recurring refactoring, implementing a specification item by item, or running a sequence of coding, review, and quality-check commands.
Why use it?
It helps manage multi-step changes across many files without relying on memory or handling every repetition manually.

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/elct9620/claude-powerloop-plugin/powerloop
Any agent
npx skills add elct9620/claude-powerloop-plugin --skill powerloop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elct9620/claude-powerloop-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,837 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 $0.00081 $0.03837
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01919
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00767
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00384

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8f2f052a3476, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

powerloop 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/powerloop/SKILL.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

powerloop — Structured Loop with Quality Phases

An enhanced /loop that wraps recurring tasks in a Plan → Execute → Review → Sample cycle. Track progress per item, dispatch work to SubAgents, and auto-stop when quality sampling passes.

Interactive Setup Flow

When invoked, guide the user through these questions in order. Adapt phrasing naturally — do not dump all questions at once.

Step 1: Goal

Ask what the user wants to accomplish. Examples:

  • "Refactor all UI components"
  • "Implement remaining features from SPEC.md"
  • "Convert all class components to function components"

Rephrasing for clarity is fine, but do not drop qualifiers, scope constraints, or edge-case notes — these details affect how SubAgents make judgment calls later. If you need to condense, confirm the rewritten goal with the user before proceeding.

Derive a short lowercase identifier from the goal for the progress file name (e.g., refactor, spec-impl, migrate).

Step 2: Execution Approach

Ask what skills or commands to use during the Execute phase. Examples:

  • /coding:write/coding:review/coding:refactor
  • /coding:fix for each item
  • Custom instructions

Step 3: Review Approach

Ask what skills or commands to use during Review and Sample phases. Examples:

  • /coding:review/coding:refactor
  • /coding:testing to verify tests pass
  • Custom review criteria

Step 4: Interval

Ask the preferred interval between executions. Suggest 5m as default. Support the same format as /loop: Ns, Nm, Nh, Nd.

Step 5: Sample Configuration

Ask whether to enable the Sample phase and the pass target:

  • Default: enabled, 10 passes required
  • Allow customization: "How many consecutive passes required? (default: 10)"
  • Allow disabling: if the user only wants Plan → Execute → Review (auto-stop after Review completes; set sample_passes: 0/0 in frontmatter)

Step 6: Language

Ask the user's preferred language for note content (progress table items, log entries, notes). Default: English. Preserve the user's original goal text in frontmatter without translation regardless of this setting.

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 248 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 8f2f052a3476

Subscribe to this mod's changes

powerloop is a skill published in the GitHub repository elct9620/claude-powerloop-plugin (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 3,837 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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