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Practical patterns, starters & CLI tools for loop engineering with AI coding agents. Design systems that prompt and orchestrate agents (inspired by Addy Osmani and Boris Cherny). Includes loop-audit, loop-init, loop-cost.

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In short

The Loop Engineering repository is a TypeScript project offering a pattern library and starter kit for designing systems that prompt and orchestrate AI coding agents, such as Claude, Grok, Codex, and OpenCode, rather than having a developer type each prompt by hand. It provides a command-line tool, invoked through npx, that initialises a loop for a repository using a chosen pattern (for example, a daily triage loop) and a chosen agent tool, and that checks the resulting setup with a doctor command and estimates running cost. The documented patterns cover recurring work such as issue triage, CI repair, dependency updates, changelog drafting, and pull request follow-up, each rated

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README · straight from GitHub

Loop Engineering

Showcase GitHub stars loop npm last triage MIT

Loop Engineering logo

Stop prompting. Design the loop. Get a score.

Loop Engineering — design the system that prompts your agents

Start in 5 minutes · Quickstart · What do you want to do? · Refactor path · 中文 · Pattern picker 

npx @cobusgreyling/loop init . --pattern daily-triage --tool claude
npx @cobusgreyling/loop doctor .

--tool defaults to claude if you omit it. Swap for grok, codex, or opencode. Week one is report-only.

Loop Ready score climbing

You design a system that discovers work, hands it to agents, verifies results, and persists state — instead of typing the next prompt yourself.

New here? Quickstart · Refactor a project · Thin GitHub Action loop (no STATE.md required)

What do you want to do?

This is a pattern library for operating agents around a codebase. It is not a “rewrite the module” button.

I want to… Start here
Keep the repo healthy (issues, CI, deps) Quickstart → daily-triage
Land and babysit PRs PR Babysitter
Run a loop in GitHub Actions with almost no files Thin loop
Ship a feature or refactor (todos → small PRs) Refactor / change path

Full jobs table: docs/jobs.md.

Patterns

Pattern Cadence Week 1 Cost
Daily Triage 1d–2h L1 report Low
Thin loop event + 1d L1 snapshot Very low
PR Babysitter 5–15m L1 watch High
CI Sweeper 5–15m L2 cautious Very high
Dependency Sweeper 6h–1d L2 patch-only Medium
Changelog Drafter 1d or tag L1 draft Low
Post-Merge Cleanup 1d–6h L1 off-peak Low
Issue Triage 2h–1d L1 propose-only Low

Interactive picker: showcase. Index: patterns/registry.yaml.

Getting started

npx @cobusgreyling/loop init . --pattern daily-triage --tool claude
npx @cobusgreyling/loop doctor .
npx @cobusgreyling/loop cost --pattern daily-triage --level L1

Empty repo → first STATE.md walkthrough: scripts/empty-to-state-demo.sh.

Roll out L1 report → L2 assisted → L3 unattended only after the verifier has been right for a week. See loop-design-checklist.

Loop Ready now weights recent runs harder than files on disk. A 30-day-old STATE.md is not L3.

Examples by tool

Claude Code (including the plugin) · Grok · Codex · OpenClaw · Opencode · GitHub Actions

Operating & safety

Failure modes · Anti-patterns · Safety · Operating loops · Stories (wins and failures)

Loop engineering amplifies judgment. Token costs can explode. Unattended loops make unattended mistakes. Read what the loop ships.

Help wanted

Docs and small PRs: first response within 48 hours.

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

CLI packages and companion repos (optional — not required for week one)

Unified front door: npx @cobusgreyling/loop (init · doctor · status · audit · cost). Older packages (loop-init, loop-audit, …) stay supported.

Companions exist for later: memory-engineering, harness-foundry, outerloop, fleet-engineering, goal-engineering. Do not add them until a loop has actually run.

Sources

License

MIT