continuous-agent-loop

continuous-agent-loop is a skill for Claude Code from KratosAR/claude-code-arsenal. It costs 21 tokens per session (257 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of continuous-agent-loop, MIT.

A set of patterns for running coding agents repeatedly with quality checks, evaluations, and recovery steps. It includes sequential, parallel, and specialised loop choices for different kinds of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps run continuous implementation loops, choose a loop style, apply code-quality checks, evaluate results, preserve sessions, and recover from repeated failures.
Why use it?
It helps prevent an autonomous agent from retrying endlessly, making no measurable progress, or increasing costs without control. Quality gates and recovery steps provide points for checking and stopping the loop.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the arsenal-core plugin — 43 skills, 15 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps run continuous implementation loops, choose a loop style, apply code-quality checks, evaluate results, preserve sessions, and recover from repeated failures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kratosar/claude-code-arsenal/continuous-agent-loop
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.

Any agent
npx skills add KratosAR/claude-code-arsenal --skill continuous-agent-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KratosAR/claude-code-arsenal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install arsenal-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 15 agents.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 257 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00021 $0.00257
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00103
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00026

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e4784075de55, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

continuous-agent-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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to continuous-agent-loop — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

arsenal-core/skills/continuous-agent-loop/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

Continuous Agent Loop

This is the v1.8+ canonical loop skill name. It supersedes autonomous-loops while keeping compatibility for one release.

Loop Selection Flow

Start
  |
  +-- Need strict CI/PR control? -- yes --> continuous-pr
  |                                    
  +-- Need RFC decomposition? -- yes --> rfc-dag
  |
  +-- Need exploratory parallel generation? -- yes --> infinite
  |
  +-- default --> sequential

Combined Pattern

Recommended production stack:

  1. RFC decomposition (ralphinho-rfc-pipeline)
  2. quality gates (plankton-code-quality + /quality-gate)
  3. eval loop (eval-harness)
  4. session persistence (nanoclaw-repl)

Failure Modes

  • loop churn without measurable progress
  • repeated retries with same root cause
  • merge queue stalls
  • cost drift from unbounded escalation

Recovery

  • freeze loop
  • run /harness-audit
  • reduce scope to failing unit
  • replay with explicit acceptance criteria
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. 1mo ago First seen · 47 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A e4784075de55

Subscribe to this mod's changes

continuous-agent-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository KratosAR/claude-code-arsenal (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 257 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to continuous-agent-loop, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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