ai-loop

ai-loop is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,633 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bounded workflow for building a software change in three stages: writing the requirements, implementing the change, and checking the result. It includes explicit limits, stopping rules, and points where a person must approve risky or unclear work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to take a well-scoped feature or component from specification through implementation and review, stopping when checks pass or more approval is needed.
Why use it?
It prevents coding tasks from expanding without control and makes the expected result, verification steps, and need for human decisions clear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to take a well-scoped feature or component from specification through implementation and review, stopping when checks pass or more approval is needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/ai-loop
About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · 46,133 stars · on GitHub · sickn33.github.io

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill ai-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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agentmods badge for ai-loop

README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,633 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • 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 $0.00028 $0.01633
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00816
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00327
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00163

Measured 4d ago against content hash e7fd18a19480, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-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 4d 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

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • ai-loop — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
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plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/ai-loop/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI-Loop Skill

Overview

The ai-loop skill structures a bounded development cycle for agentic workflows. By dividing the process into distinct planning (Spec), implementation (Build), and validation (Review) phases, it helps an agent build and correct scoped code changes while keeping requirements, risk gates, and stop conditions explicit.

When to Use This Skill

  • Use when you need a feature built from scratch or heavily modified, and you want the agent to handle the lifecycle (specification, implementation, and verification) inside one clearly bounded workflow.
  • Use when working with isolated components, modules, or features that have well-defined scopes and constraints.
  • Use when the user asks for a complete development pass but the work still has clear success criteria, a reasonable verification path, and no unresolved safety or product decisions.

How It Works

This skill executes a controlled development loop composed of three phases: Spec, Build, and Review. When invoked, the agent moves through those phases until the scoped requirements pass verification, a stop condition is reached, or human approval is needed.

Before starting, define:

  • The maximum number of build-review iterations.
  • The verification commands or manual checks that count as evidence.
  • The actions that require explicit approval, such as destructive commands, production changes, external service writes, or broad architectural pivots.

Phase 1: Spec (Planning)

  1. Interview the user about the feature or app they want to build. Ask one focused question at a time until you fully understand the goal, the must-have requirements, the constraints, and what "done" looks like.
  2. Do not start building yet.
  3. When you have enough information, write a clear, detailed specification and save it to specs/<feature-name>.md.
  4. The spec must include:
    • The objective
    • The exact requirements
    • Edge cases to handle
    • A concrete definition of done that someone could check the build against
    • The iteration budget, verification commands, and approval gates.

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 137 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A e7fd18a19480

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ai-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,133 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,633 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-05.