| # Maintainer Picks |
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| ## Concept |
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| - [Loop Engineering](https://addyosmani.com/blog/loop-engineering/) - Direct framing of Loop Engineering as the layer above manual prompting and one floor above harness engineering. |
| - [Canonical Definition](DEFINITION.md) - Stable definition and scope test for quoting or explaining the concept. |
| - [Loop Engineering Manifesto](MANIFESTO.md) - Short statement of principles, non-goals, and success criteria. |
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| ## Practice |
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| - [Run long horizon tasks with Codex](https://developers.openai.com/blog/run-long-horizon-tasks-with-codex) - Practical plan-edit-test-observe-repair-document-repeat runbook. |
| - [Run prompts on a schedule](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/scheduled-tasks) - Scheduled loop mechanics for recurring prompts, monitors, reminders, and `/loop`. |
| - [PR babysitter pattern](patterns/pr-babysitter.md) - Concrete operational pattern for PR comments, CI, conflicts, and merge readiness. |
| - [CI repair loop pattern](patterns/ci-repair-loop.md) - Concrete operational pattern for turning failing checks into narrow verified patches. |
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| ## Reliability |
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| - [Stop Babysitting Your Coding Agent. Give It Backpressure.](https://generativeprogrammer.com/p/stop-babysitting-your-coding-agent) - Turns tests, linters, builds, traces, and other signals into feedback loops. |
| - [Building effective agents](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents) - Canonical workflow patterns and caution against unnecessary complexity. |
| - [Loop Engineering Anti-Patterns](ANTI-PATTERNS.md) - Failure modes to avoid before running agents repeatedly. |
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| ## Reusable Artifacts |
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| - [Loop contract schema](schemas/loop-contract.schema.json) - Machine-readable contract for recurring agent loops. |
| - [Example loop specs](examples/README.md) - Validated PR babysitter, CI repair, and docs drift loop examples. |
| - [Loop Gallery](gallery/README.md) - Community format for sharing real or anonymized loop examples. |
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