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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
goal-refiner-loop Rewrites a vague request into a precise goal — exact end state, how to verify it, what not to touch, and the stop condition — then executes against it. engineering on-demand The refined goal's verifiable end state is reached, or its explicit turn/budget cap is hit.
agent:expert-advisors/critical-thinking
agent:development-team/code-architect
goal
planning
prompting
loop

Goal-Refiner Loop

Loop Engineering — "your agent is not dumb, your instructions are just vague." This loop's only first job is to turn a fuzzy ask into a rigorous, verifiable goal before any code is written, then run the /goal against it.

🎯 Goal

Convert a vague request into a precise goal — the exact end state, how it will be verified, what must not be touched, and the stop condition — confirm it, then execute.

⏱️ Schedule

Trigger: on-demand.

▶️ Run it

/goal Before doing anything, rewrite my request into a precise goal: the exact end state, how you will verify it, what you must not touch, and the stop condition (including a turn cap). Confirm that goal with me, then execute against it and stop when the end state is verified.

🔁 Iteration steps

  1. Refine — critical-thinking rewrites the ask into a crisp, testable goal.
  2. Scope — code-architect defines the blast radius: what's in, what must not be touched.
  3. Confirm — surface the refined goal for a quick yes before acting.
  4. Act — execute against the goal.
  5. Verify — check the end state against the stated verification; stop when met.

🛑 Stopping condition

The goal's verifiable end state is reached, or the turn/budget cap is hit (the loop reports how far it got).

💰 Budget & guardrails

Every refined goal carries an explicit "what not to touch" and a turn cap, so an under-specified ask can't sprawl into a risky, open-ended run.

🧩 Referenced components

  • agent:expert-advisors/critical-thinking — sharpens the goal and verification.
  • agent:development-team/code-architect — bounds scope and the do-not-touch list.

💡 Example

"Make the app faster" becomes "p95 of /search ≤ 200ms measured by the existing benchmark, without changing the public API, stop after 8 turns" — and the loop executes against that.