/continuous-agent-loop
Patterns for continuous autonomous agent loops with quality gates, evals, and recovery controls.
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Patterns for continuous autonomous agent loops with quality gates, evals, and recovery controls.
SKILL.md
continuous-agent-loop.SKILL.mdname: continuous-agent-loop description: Patterns for continuous autonomous agent loops with quality gates, evals, and recovery controls. metadata: origin: ECC
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
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: 1. RFC decomposition (`ralphinho-rfc-pipeline`) 2. quality gates (`plankton-code-quality` + `/quality-gate`) 3. eval loop (`eval-harness`) 4. 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
Your agent can write code, but ECC gives it a coordinated engineering system and toolbox: it plans before it builds, verifies changes with tests, reviews its own work from a fresh context, remembers what matters, and turns repeated wins into reusable skills
Repo: affaan-m/ECC
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