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Daniel Avila 7f890b1b3b feat: add Loops component type with referenced components (#643)
* feat: add Loops component type with referenced components

Introduce "loops" as a new first-class component type — autonomous
agentic workflows (goal + interval + stop condition) inspired by Loop
Engineering and the Forward Future Loop Library. A loop references other
components (agents, skills, hooks, commands) and the dashboard renders
those references as clickable cards on the loop detail page.

- Add 10 starter loops under cli-tool/components/loops/
  (engineering, evaluation, operations)
- Catalog generator: scan loops + write per-component content files
- Dashboard: new type in icons/types/data, /loops page, and a
  "Referenced Components" section on the loop detail page
- CLI: --loop flag installs the loop to .claude/loops/ and
  auto-installs its referenced components
- Docs: CLAUDE.md and cli-tool rule updated

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T9ynMiCHt8JwdMd8KjCkES

* feat: add 8 more loops (goal/loop/schedule patterns)

Expand the loops catalog to 18, drawing ideas from community "Loop
Engineering" patterns. Adds loops across the three trigger verbs
(/goal, /loop, /schedule) and emphasizes the verifier-in-the-loop and
budget / anti-spin guardrails:

- engineering/five-minute-maintainer-loop
- engineering/build-test-fix-loop
- engineering/anti-spin-build-loop
- engineering/completion-contract-loop (goal)
- engineering/goal-refiner-loop (goal)
- engineering/adversarial-review-loop (cross-model)
- operations/overnight-pr-routine-loop (schedule)
- evaluation/human-approval-loop (human-in-the-loop)

All referenced components verified to exist; catalog regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T9ynMiCHt8JwdMd8KjCkES

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-21 20:19:16 -04:00

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name, description, category, interval, stop-condition, components, tags
name description category interval stop-condition components tags
anti-spin-build-loop Builds toward a machine-checkable contract with explicit anti-spin guardrails — stops on no progress, repeated approaches, flip-flopping, or a spend budget. engineering 15m The machine-checkable contract passes, or an anti-spin guard trips (no progress, repeated/flip-flopping approach, or budget hit).
agent:expert-advisors/architect-review
command:git-workflow/pr-review
hook:quality-gates/scope-guard
reliability
guardrails
budget
loop

Anti-Spin Build Loop

Loop Engineering — most agent loops never stop to ask whether they're actually making progress, so they retry the same broken approach or quietly edit the test to pass. This loop runs build → audit → verify against a machine-checkable contract, with explicit stops that detect spinning.

🎯 Goal

Drive toward a verifiable contract while actively guarding against the classic failure mode: an agent that loops forever without converging.

⏱️ Schedule

Suggested interval: 15m.

▶️ Run it

/loop 15m "Build toward the goal, then audit and verify against a machine-checkable contract. Track progress each pass. Stop if you make no progress, repeat an approach you already tried, flip-flop between two approaches, or hit the budget. Finish only when the contract passes — never by weakening the contract or the tests."

🔁 Iteration steps

  1. Build — advance toward the contract.
  2. Audit — architect-review checks the change; scope-guard blocks weakening the tests/contract.
  3. Verify — run the machine-checkable contract; record progress vs. last pass.
  4. Anti-spin check — no progress? repeated approach? flip-flop? budget hit? → stop and report.
  5. Observe — if making progress and contract not yet met, loop; else /pr-review and hand off.

🛑 Stopping condition

Contract passes, or an anti-spin guard trips — whichever comes first.

💰 Budget & guardrails

Hard caps on iterations and spend; no-progress, repeated-approach and flip-flop detection. The contract and tests are immutable — the loop may not edit them to "pass".

🧩 Referenced components

  • agent:expert-advisors/architect-review — independent audit each pass.
  • command:git-workflow/pr-review — structured review at handoff.
  • hook:quality-gates/scope-guard — prevents weakening tests/contract to fake success.

💡 Example

Chasing a contract for a parser, the loop tries approach A, then B, then drifts back to A — the flip-flop guard trips and it stops with a clear report instead of burning tokens forever.