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.
npx agentmods add skills/pallerana/agentic-loop-engineering-kit/loop-budgetnpx skills add pallerana/agentic-loop-engineering-kit --skill loop-budgetgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pallerana/agentic-loop-engineering-kitWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00037 | $0.00268 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00134 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00054 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00027 |
Grade A, and why
loop-budget 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.
What it actually says
Loop Budget
Runtime budget guard for Agentic Loop Engineering Kit. Canonical caps: loop-budget.md (root symlink).
Caps
| Resource | Cap | On exceed |
|---|---|---|
| Remote CI babysit | 3 per PR | STATE inbox + recommend Phase 1 with logs |
| Local build retry | 5 per phase | STATE inbox |
| Planner re-entry | 2 arch failures | STATE inbox |
| Ops L1 | 1 session | Handoff or human gate |
Usage
Before Phase 6 ship or retry loops:
- Read active profile state +
loop-run-log.mdattempt counts - If at cap → stop, append human inbox row in
STATE.md - Log via
update-loop-state.sh
Kill switch
If loop-pause: true in profile state frontmatter or human inbox has open blocker → stop loop.
Plan-mode
Budget checks run in Plan mode; present cap status to user before approving next phase.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 36 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 14a356c47e1c
loop-budget is a skill published in the GitHub repository pallerana/agentic-loop-engineering-kit (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 268 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 2026-08-31.
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