continuous-agent-loop

name	continuous-agent-loop
description	Patterns for continuous autonomous agent loops with quality gates, evals, and recovery controls. USE WHEN running long-lived agent loops and choosing between sequential, continuous-PR, RFC-DAG, or infinite parallel modes with safe recovery.
origin	ECC
cluster	ai-agents-meta
version	1.0.0

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