Maintainer Picks
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Concept
- Loop Engineering - Direct framing of Loop Engineering as the layer above manual prompting and one floor above harness engineering.
- Canonical Definition - Stable definition and scope test for quoting or explaining the concept.
- Loop Engineering Manifesto - Short statement of principles, non-goals, and success criteria.
Practice
- Run long horizon tasks with Codex - Practical plan-edit-test-observe-repair-document-repeat runbook.
- Run prompts on a schedule - Scheduled loop mechanics for recurring prompts, monitors, reminders, and
/loop. - PR babysitter pattern - Concrete operational pattern for PR comments, CI, conflicts, and merge readiness.
- CI repair loop pattern - Concrete operational pattern for turning failing checks into narrow verified patches.
Reliability
- Stop Babysitting Your Coding Agent. Give It Backpressure. - Turns tests, linters, builds, traces, and other signals into feedback loops.
- Building effective agents - Canonical workflow patterns and caution against unnecessary complexity.
- Loop Engineering Anti-Patterns - Failure modes to avoid before running agents repeatedly.
Reusable Artifacts
- Loop contract schema - Machine-readable contract for recurring agent loops.
- Example loop specs - Validated PR babysitter, CI repair, and docs drift loop examples.
- Loop Gallery - Community format for sharing real or anonymized loop examples.