Continuous Agent Loop

affaan-m/ECC/skills/continuous-agent-loop

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Patterns for continuous autonomous agent loops with quality gates, evals, and recovery controls. Use when running an agent loop that must self-check, gate on evals, and recover from failures.

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Patterns for running continuous autonomous agent loops with quality gates, evals, and failure recovery.

What it does: This skill provides guidance for selecting and running continuous autonomous agent loops. It offers a decision flow for choosing loop styles such as strict CI/PR control, RFC decomposition, exploratory parallel generation, or sequential execution, and recommends a combined production stack of RFC decomposition, quality gates, an eval loop, and session persistence. It also lists common failure modes and a recovery procedure.
When to use it: Use it when running an agent loop that must self-check, gate on evaluations, and recover from failures. It is suited to teams choosing between loop patterns or diagnosing loop problems such as churn, repeated retries, merge queue stalls, or cost drift.
Requirements: No scripts or special tooling are required; it is an instructions-only skill. It references related skills and commands such as continuous-pr, rfc-dag, infinite, sequential, ralphinho-rfc-pipeline, plankton-code-quality, /quality-gate, eval-harness, nanoclaw-repl, and /harness-audit.

Continuous Agent Loop

This is the v1.8+ canonical loop skill name. It supersedes autonomous-loops while keeping compatibility for one release.

Loop Selection Flow

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Start  |  +-- Need strict CI/PR control? -- yes --> continuous-pr  |  +-- Need RFC decomposition? -- yes --> rfc-dag  |  +-- Need exploratory parallel generation? -- yes --> infinite  |  +-- default --> sequential

Start  |  +-- Need strict CI/PR control? -- yes --> continuous-pr  |  +-- Need RFC decomposition? -- yes --> rfc-dag  |  +-- Need exploratory parallel generation? -- yes --> infinite  |  +-- default --> sequential

Combined Pattern

Recommended production stack:

RFC decomposition (ralphinho-rfc-pipeline)
quality gates (plankton-code-quality + /quality-gate)
eval loop (eval-harness)
session persistence (nanoclaw-repl)

Failure Modes

loop churn without measurable progress
repeated retries with same root cause
merge queue stalls
cost drift from unbounded escalation

Recovery

freeze loop
run /harness-audit
reduce scope to failing unit
replay with explicit acceptance criteria

Source and attribution

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Continuous Agent Loop

Continuous Agent Loop

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Combined Pattern

Failure Modes

Recovery

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