| 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
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+-- Need strict CI/PR control? -- yes --> continuous-pr
|
+-- Need RFC decomposition? -- yes --> rfc-dag
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+-- Need exploratory parallel generation? -- yes --> infinite
|
+-- default --> sequential
Combined Pattern
Recommended production stack:
- RFC decomposition (
ralphinho-rfc-pipeline)
- quality gates (
plankton-code-quality + /quality-gate)
- eval loop (
eval-harness)
- 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
