dale-loop

dale-loop is a skill for Codex from lubluniky/dale. It costs 41 tokens per session (590 once invoked), scanned A, original, MPL-2.0.

A general workflow for repeatedly observing a goal, deciding what to do, assigning work, checking the result, saving state, and then waiting or stopping.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for designing ongoing workflows with clear triggers, actions, checks, saved progress, limits, and points where human approval is required.
Why use it?
It lets an agent continue a repeatable process across multiple cycles without requiring the user to restate the context each time.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit It is for designing ongoing workflows with clear triggers, actions, checks, saved progress, limits, and points where human approval is required.

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

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 590 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00041 $0.00590
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00295
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00059

Measured 2d ago against content hash d620adac5d17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dale-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/dale-loop/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dale Loop

Use observe -> decide -> act -> verify -> persist -> wait or stop. Choose the smallest loop that fits the work; do not force a PR pipeline.

Define the contract

Infer the outcome, observation source, trigger or cadence, allowed actions, direct verifier, durable state, user resource limits, and terminal condition. Ask only for missing information that changes the outcome or authority. Keep existing user authorization; a skill invocation does not authorize unrelated publication, merging, deployment, or messages.

Choose a focused mode when useful:

  • $dale-loop-project: several independently deliverable PRs.
  • $dale-loop-pr: one existing PR through review or repair.
  • $dale-loop-repo: recurring repository maintenance.
  • $dale-loop-watch: meaningful-change monitoring.
  • $dale-loop-goal: one sustained objective.

Execute and resume

During an active run, use subagents for independently useful work and inherited model settings. Give each a concrete output, exclusive write scope or read-only scope, verifier, and no further delegation. Keep overlapping mutations sequential. Do complementary work while workers run. Separate user-owned Codex tasks require an explicit request for separate tasks; they are not the default work unit.

For future wakeups, use the product's automation mechanism. Persist source and artifact identities, completed actions, failed signals, and the next condition in the automation prompt or an authorized durable artifact. Do not assume a subagent or its conversation survives a wakeup. Re-observe before resuming and avoid duplicate actions against unchanged state.

Use a goal mechanism only for an explicitly requested goal, within its live schema; do not fabricate a token budget. Cadence belongs to automations, not a blocking shell sleep. Stay quiet on unchanged or non-actionable wakes unless the user requested periodic reports. Notify on meaningful change or required action.

Verify against the actual source, checkout, PR head, or runtime. Agent completion text alone is insufficient. After repeated unchanged failure, change approach; stop at a real blocker, terminal condition, or user limit. Disable completed scheduled work through the supported automation tool; archive the user task only when requested.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 2d ago Changed · -1 lines · -18 tokens per session d620adac5d17
  2. 10d ago First seen · 63 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 6266bff5ef6a

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dale-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository lubluniky/dale (51 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 590 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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