meta-loop-methodology

meta-loop-methodology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jpavley/meta-loop-ios. It costs 21 tokens per session (4,992 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development method for working with AI coding agents through repeated loops: sketching, specifying, and implementing software. It treats written documentation as the lasting guide for regenerating code consistently.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan, review, and execute software work across wireframes, specifications, and implementation, with human, planning, questioning, and execution modes.
Why use it?
It gives an AI-assisted project a repeatable process and a way to preserve lessons when implementation needs to be redone.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the meta-loop-ios plugin — 4 skills, 5 commands shipped together

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/jpavley/meta-loop-ios/meta-loop-methodology
Any agent
npx skills add jpavley/meta-loop-ios --skill meta-loop-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpavley/meta-loop-ios

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install meta-loop-ios, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 5 commands.

Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,992 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 $0.00021 $0.04992
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.02496
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00998
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00499

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4ca60a1075e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

meta-loop-methodology 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 3d 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/meta-loop-methodology/SKILL.md · 387 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 387 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Software Development Process with Agentic Interfaces

Summary: This document describes a "meta loop" where a single experienced developer collaborates with AI coding agents (like Claude Code) to achieve single-shot repeatability and transferability—the ability to deliver production-ready software in one attempt, reproducibly, across different platforms. The process flows through three loops (Wireframe → Specification → Implementation), each using four modes: Human Action (manual work), Plan Mode (AI creates structured plans), Ask Mode (AI reviews and provides feedback), and Agent Mode (AI executes the plan). The key insight is "delete and regenerate"—when errors occur, artifacts are deleted rather than patched, and the documentation is improved so the AI can regenerate correctly. This inverts traditional economics: code becomes cheap to regenerate while documentation becomes the persistent value that preserves learning across sessions.

Introduction

The goal of this software development process (meta loop) is for a single developer (the user) collaborating with one or more AI coding agents to deliver high-quality production-ready software applications and systems efficiently.

In this context "AI coding agent" means an agentic interface to a family of frontier models trained, fine-tuned, system prompted, with interfaces to software development capabilities. An "agentic interface" has action capabilities, observation capabilities, variable autonomy, and a "loop" ( a "while loop" with tool execution and context accumulation repeats until there is a reason to stop). The success and failure of AI coding is tied up in helping the agent understand what the (1) tasks is, (2) how to accomplish it, and (3) the "definition of done". Ironically 1, 2, and 3 are problems that have plagued software development from the beginning. There are no good answers as every software development team's understanding of 1, 2, and 3 are subjective and changing and not objective and fixed. Even with specs, plans, and tests, 1, 2, and 3 are fuzzy. This is because a map is not the territory, no plan survives meeting the enemy, and "done", like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Read the full file on GitHub · 387 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 387 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 4ca60a1075e5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

meta-loop-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpavley/meta-loop-ios (3 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 4,992 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.

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