loop-engineering

loop-engineering is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LiuYihey/loop-engineering-skill. It costs 91 tokens per session (2,542 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A design and scaffolding skill for autonomous agent loops: repeated work cycles that let an agent continue a long task with saved state and checks for progress.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a tailored loop workflow with saved state, regular coordinator checks, fresh sessions, stall detection, and quality gates.
Why use it?
It helps structure long-running work so progress survives across sessions and stalled or low-quality results can be detected.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to create a tailored loop workflow with saved state, regular coordinator checks, fresh sessions, stall detection, and quality gates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liuyihey/loop-engineering-skill/loop-engineering
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 LiuYihey/loop-engineering-skill --skill loop-engineering
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LiuYihey/loop-engineering-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for loop-engineering

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for loop-engineering

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,542 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 unknown 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 5.1 $0.00091 $0.02542
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.01017
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00508
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00254

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f57d94938f90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

loop-engineering 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/init_loop.py, scripts/stall_scan.py, scripts/update_progress.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/loop-engineering/SKILL.md · 257 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 257 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A f57d94938f90

Subscribe to this mod's changes

loop-engineering is a skill published in the GitHub repository LiuYihey/loop-engineering-skill (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 2,542 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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