loop-engineer

loop-engineer is a skill for Claude Code from vibhasdutta/loop-engineer. It costs 113 tokens per session (3,349 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

An autonomous work-loop setup for the OpenAI Codex command-line tool that asks three questions and creates a team of parallel helper agents from TOML configuration files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scaffold the loop files and get the exact `codex /goal` command for an autonomous workflow.
Why use it?
It organizes research, planning, execution, checking, auditing, and memory tasks for a longer automated coding effort.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the loop-engineer plugin — 9 skills, 1 command, 15 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to scaffold the loop files and get the exact codex /goal command for an autonomous workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vibhasdutta/loop-engineer/codex
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 vibhasdutta/loop-engineer --skill codex
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vibhasdutta/loop-engineer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install loop-engineer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 command, 15 agents, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,349 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00113 $0.03349
Opus 5.5 $0.00045 $0.01340
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00670
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00335

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6d7abb65a1cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

loop-engineer scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Reads agent configuration directorieslowAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

> - Current Codex CLI releases enable subagent workflows by default (confirmed via developers.openai.com/codex/subagents) — no feature flag needed on recent versions. If yours is older and `spawn_agent` isn't available,

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

platforms/codex/SKILL.md · 237 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

41 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 237 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 6d7abb65a1cd

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loop-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository vibhasdutta/loop-engineer (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 3,349 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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