autonomous-loops

autonomous-loops is a skill for Claude Code from ufy2024/AuC. It costs 26 tokens per session (5,623 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of autonomous-loops, MIT.

Patterns for running coding agents repeatedly or in parallel, from simple step-by-step workflows to multi-agent systems with shared plans and quality checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build continuous development pipelines, run parallel agents, preserve context between runs, and add review or cleanup stages.
Why use it?
It helps you choose how much automation and coordination a development workflow needs when people are not directing every step.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Not installable on its own: it runs a file from its repository that does not travel with it. Clone the repository, or install whatever ships that file. The line is node scripts/claw.js.

About the project

AuC is a Python framework for running a single AI agent with an asynchronous, pluggable reasoning loop, language-model adapters, permission levels, and observable events. It is used to build coding and conversational agents with tools, security checks, web interfaces, background jobs, evaluations, and isolated execution. The catalogue entries are skills for extending its agent workflow.

ufy2024/AuC · 1,091 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,623 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00026 $0.05623
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.02812
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.01125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00562

Measured 6d ago against content hash edc45592899e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

autonomous-loops 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 6d 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

This is a copy

98% identical to autonomous-loops — 26 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

auc/skill_library/bundled/autonomous-loops/SKILL.md · 631 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 631 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Autonomous Loops Skill

Compatibility note (v1.8.0): autonomous-loops is retained for one release. The canonical skill name is now continuous-agent-loop. New loop guidance should be authored there, while this skill remains available to avoid breaking existing workflows.

Patterns, architectures, and reference implementations for running Claude Code autonomously in loops. Covers everything from simple claude -p pipelines to full RFC-driven multi-agent DAG orchestration.

When to Use

  • Setting up autonomous development workflows that run without human intervention
  • Choosing the right loop architecture for your problem (simple vs complex)
  • Building CI/CD-style continuous development pipelines
  • Running parallel agents with merge coordination
  • Implementing context persistence across loop iterations
  • Adding quality gates and cleanup passes to autonomous workflows

Loop Pattern Spectrum

From simplest to most sophisticated:

Pattern Complexity Best For
Sequential Pipeline Low Daily dev steps, scripted workflows
NanoClaw REPL Low Interactive persistent sessions
Infinite Agentic Loop Medium Parallel content generation, spec-driven work
Continuous Claude PR Loop Medium Multi-day iterative projects with CI gates
De-Sloppify Pattern Add-on Quality cleanup after any Implementer step
Ralphinho / RFC-Driven DAG High Large features, multi-unit parallel work with merge queue

1. Sequential Pipeline (claude -p)

The simplest loop. Break daily development into a sequence of non-interactive claude -p calls. Each call is a focused step with a clear prompt.

Core Insight

If you can't figure out a loop like this, it means you can't even drive the LLM to fix your code in interactive mode.

Read the full file on GitHub · 631 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. 6d ago First seen · 631 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A edc45592899e

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autonomous-loops is a skill published in the GitHub repository ufy2024/AuC (1,091 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 5,623 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to autonomous-loops, differing in 26 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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