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    cobusgreyling/loop-engineering

    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.

    11.7K stars
    1.6K forks
    11.7K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 3, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 106 days ago, with 44 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides practical patterns, starters, and CLI tools to design and orchestrate AI coding agent loops for automated software workflows.
    • Enables developers to shift from manual prompting to designing reusable, composable control systems that manage AI agents over time.
    • Use for automating daily triage and issue management with AI agents running scheduled loops to maintain project health.
    • Use for implementing continuous integration sweeper loops that autonomously detect and fix CI pipeline issues frequently.
    • Use for creating multi-agent workflows with safe isolated worktrees and sub-agent verification to automate complex coding tasks.

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

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    From the README

    Stop prompting. Design the loop. Get a score.

    loop init (or loop-init) scaffolds skills, state, and budget files, then prints your Loop Ready score and first loop command. loop doctor combines audit + sync + file checks into top-3 next actions. Swap --tool for claude, codex, or opencode. Use --with-foundry when you want the loop as a composable runtime stack. See docs/cli-front-door.md.

    Loop engineering replaces you as the person who prompts the agent — you design the system that does it instead.

    For developers using Grok, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other AI coding agents.

    Excerpt from the cobusgreyling/loop-engineering README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Aug 11: +92Aug 12: +71Aug 13: +18Sep 6: +61

    +1,571 stars over 86 days across 11 snapshot days; best day +92 on Aug 11.

    Forks

    1.6K+199

    Open issues

    19-7

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