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Practical patterns, starters & CLI tools for loop engineering with AI coding agents. Design systems that prompt and orchestrate agents (inspired by Addy Osmani and Boris Cherny). Includes loop-audit, loop-init, loop-cost.
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git clone https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineeringGuides for using ai agents skills like loop-engineering.
Last scanned: 6/15/2026
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loop-engineering is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by cobusgreyling. Practical patterns, starters & CLI tools for loop engineering with AI coding agents. Design systems that prompt and orchestrate agents (inspired by Addy Osmani and Boris Cherny). Includes loop-audit, loop-init, loop-cost. It has 11,527 GitHub stars.
Yes. loop-engineering passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.
Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
loop-engineering is primarily written in TypeScript. It is open-source under cobusgreyling on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
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Stop prompting. Design the loop. Get a score.
npx @cobusgreyling/loop init . --pattern daily-triage --tool claude
npx @cobusgreyling/loop doctor .
--tool defaults to claude if you omit it. Swap for grok, codex, or opencode. Week one is report-only.
You design a system that discovers work, hands it to agents, verifies results, and persists state — instead of typing the next prompt yourself.
New here? Quickstart · Refactor a project · Thin GitHub Action loop (no STATE.md required)
This is a pattern library for operating agents around a codebase. It is not a “rewrite the module” button.
| I want to… | Start here |
|---|---|
| Keep the repo healthy (issues, CI, deps) | Quickstart → daily-triage |
| Land and babysit PRs | PR Babysitter |
| Run a loop in GitHub Actions with almost no files | Thin loop |
| Ship a feature or refactor (todos → small PRs) | Refactor / change path |
Full jobs table: docs/jobs.md.
| Pattern | Cadence | Week 1 | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Triage | 1d–2h | L1 report | Low |
| Thin loop | event + 1d | L1 snapshot | Very low |
| PR Babysitter | 5–15m | L1 watch | High |
| CI Sweeper | 5–15m | L2 cautious | Very high |
| Dependency Sweeper | 6h–1d | L2 patch-only | Medium |
| Changelog Drafter | 1d or tag | L1 draft | Low |
| Post-Merge Cleanup | 1d–6h | L1 off-peak | Low |
| Issue Triage | 2h–1d | L1 propose-only | Low |
Interactive picker: showcase. Index: patterns/registry.yaml.
npx @cobusgreyling/loop init . --pattern daily-triage --tool claude
npx @cobusgreyling/loop doctor .
npx @cobusgreyling/loop cost --pattern daily-triage --level L1
Empty repo → first STATE.md walkthrough: scripts/empty-to-state-demo.sh.
Roll out L1 report → L2 assisted → L3 unattended only after the verifier has been right for a week. See loop-design-checklist.
Loop Ready now weights recent runs harder than files on disk. A 30-day-old STATE.md is not L3.
Claude Code (including the plugin) · Grok · Codex · OpenClaw · Opencode · GitHub Actions
Failure modes · Anti-patterns · Safety · Operating loops · Stories (wins and failures)
Loop engineering amplifies judgment. Token costs can explode. Unattended loops make unattended mistakes. Read what the loop ships.
Docs and small PRs: first response within 48 hours.
good first issue listSee CONTRIBUTING.md.
Unified front door: npx @cobusgreyling/loop (init · doctor · status · audit · cost). Older packages (loop-init, loop-audit, …) stay supported.
Companions exist for later: memory-engineering, harness-foundry, outerloop, fleet-engineering, goal-engineering. Do not add them until a loop has actually run.
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