loop-forge

loop-forge — stamp a guarded, reusable loop (/loop-forge)

Picture an engraving shop. A customer who can't engrave walks in and just describes the seal they keep needing — "I want to do this over and over." The artisan ① recognizes which of 5 standard molds (loop shapes) it is, ② asks what letters to cut (the blanks), ③ cuts them into a proven mold, ④ automatically fits a "misprint detector" (the verifier) and an "out-of-ink stop" (the hardstop), ⑤ pulls one test impression to show the customer, and ⑥ once they approve, hands back a reusable /command they can stamp again any time — the same in Claude Code and in any other agent via a paste-able prompt.

What this tool actually does

Someone who doesn't code can't author a reusable /command that makes an AI repeat a task reliably. loop-forge closes that gap. It takes a vague one-liner and stamps it into a reusable slash command, while automatically attaching the two safety devices a non-developer doesn't even know to ask for:

• Verifier (maker ≠ checker) — the loop's output is re-checked in a pass that is separate from the pass that produced it, so the loop can't grade its own homework.
• Hardstop — a budget/count/cooldown ceiling, so a loop can't quietly break while burning tokens.

That auto-injection is the decisive difference from a plain prompt generator or a developer-facing skill builder.

Before → after (the elevator demo):

User: "I want to summarize 100 shop reviews into 3 lines each"
        │
loop-forge:
  1. Diagnoses → Batch loop
  2. Interviews → where are the items? per-item task? where does output land? a cap?
  3. Auto-injects → verifier (count in == count out + independent spot re-check)
                  + hardstop (max_items budget + per-item fail cap + abort at 20% failure)
  4. Previews → "here's how it will run" (+ optional 1-item sample)
  5. Stamps → /review-summary  (reusable forever; safety baked in)

When it triggers

• /loop or /loop "<one-line situation>" (full command /loop-forge; alias /make-it-loop)
• "automate this" / "make this repeatable" / "turn this into a command"
• "summarize all 100 reviews" / "do this for every item"
• "do X every time an email arrives" / "alert me when a condition is met"
• "generate a few options and pick the best one"
• any time you'd rather capture a recurring task as a reusable /command than re-type the prompt by hand