devloop

The main entry point for the devloop development workflow, which checks the project's current state and suggests the next action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start or continue work in a project, create a plan, explore the codebase, handle a quick task, or work with GitHub issues.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to decide manually whether a project needs setup, planning, exploration, or a small fix.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zate/cc-plugins/devloop
Any agent
npx skills add Zate/cc-plugins --skill devloop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zate/cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,115 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00010 $0.02115
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.01058
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00423
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00212

Measured yesterday against content hash 896bd15cf623, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devloop 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/devloop/skills/devloop/SKILL.md · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Devloop - Smart Development Workflow

The main entry point for devloop. Detects your current state and suggests the most relevant actions. You do the work directly.

Step 1: Detect State

Run the state detection script:

"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/check-devloop-state.sh"

Parse the JSON output:

  • state: Current state identifier
  • priority: 1-7 (lower = more urgent)
  • details: State-specific information
  • suggestions: Recommended actions

Step 2: Display Status and Options

Based on detected state, display status and present contextual options:

State: not_setup (Priority 1)

Devloop not set up in this project.

The .devloop/ directory doesn't exist yet.
AskUserQuestion:
  questions:
    - question: "What would you like to do?"
      header: "Setup"
      multiSelect: false
      options:
        - label: "Create a plan (Recommended)"
          description: "Autonomous exploration -> actionable plan"
        - label: "Deep exploration"
          description: "Comprehensive investigation with spike report"
        - label: "Quick task"
          description: "Small, well-defined fix or change"
        - label: "GitHub issues"
          description: "Start from an existing issue"

Routing:

  • "Create a plan" -> /devloop:plan $ARGUMENTS
  • "Deep exploration" -> /devloop:plan --deep $ARGUMENTS
  • "Quick task" -> /devloop:plan --quick $ARGUMENTS
  • "GitHub issues" -> /devloop:issues

State: active_plan (Priority 2)

Display plan status from details:

Active Plan: [plan_title]
Progress: [done]/[total] tasks ([pending] remaining)
Next: [next_task]
AskUserQuestion:
  questions:
    - question: "What would you like to do?"
      header: "Action"
      multiSelect: false
      options:
        - label: "Continue working (Recommended)"
          description: "Pick up where you left off"
        - label: "Ship progress"
          description: "Commit and optionally create PR"
        - label: "View full plan"
          description: "Review the complete plan"
        - label: "Start fresh"
          description: "Archive current plan and start new"

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 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. yesterday First seen · 291 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 896bd15cf623

Subscribe to this mod's changes

devloop is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zate/cc-plugins (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 2,115 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 2026-08-31.

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