continuous-agent-loop

continuous-agent-loop is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from unrealandychan/clean-code-skill. It costs 42 tokens per session (280 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of continuous-agent-loop, MIT.

A pattern for running an AI agent repeatedly while checking its work and recovering from failures. Quality gates are checks that must pass, and evaluations measure whether the result meets defined expectations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for autonomous coding or other agent workflows that need sequential execution, quality checks, evaluations, and failure recovery.
Why use it?
It reduces unverified progress, repeated retries with the same cause, and uncontrolled loops. Recovery controls let the process pause, narrow its scope, and retry with clearer acceptance criteria.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for autonomous coding or other agent workflows that need sequential execution, quality checks, evaluations, and failure recovery.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unrealandychan/clean-code-skill/continuous-agent-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 unrealandychan/clean-code-skill --skill continuous-agent-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/unrealandychan/clean-code-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 280 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.
Origin 92% 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 $0.00042 $0.00280
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00112
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00028

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f228cd383a90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

continuous-agent-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 1mo 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

92% identical to continuous-agent-loop — 5 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.

skills/ecc/continuous-agent-loop/SKILL.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

Continuous Agent Loop

This is the v1.8+ canonical loop skill name. It supersedes autonomous-loops while keeping compatibility for one release.

Loop Selection Flow

Start
  |
  +-- Need strict CI/PR control? -- yes --> continuous-pr
  |
  +-- Need RFC decomposition? -- yes --> rfc-dag
  |
  +-- Need exploratory parallel generation? -- yes --> infinite
  |
  +-- default --> sequential

Combined Pattern

Recommended production stack:

  1. RFC decomposition (ralphinho-rfc-pipeline)
  2. quality gates (plankton-code-quality + /quality-gate)
  3. eval loop (eval-harness)
  4. session persistence (nanoclaw-repl)

Failure Modes

  • loop churn without measurable progress
  • repeated retries with same root cause
  • merge queue stalls
  • cost drift from unbounded escalation

Recovery

  • freeze loop
  • run /harness-audit
  • reduce scope to failing unit
  • replay with explicit acceptance criteria
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. 1mo ago First seen · 47 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A f228cd383a90

Subscribe to this mod's changes

continuous-agent-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository unrealandychan/clean-code-skill (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 280 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to continuous-agent-loop, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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