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7/11/2026

The original title is "Loop Engineering: Score the System That Prompts Your Agents"
Original: Loop Engineering: Score the System That Prompts Your Agents
Short summary
Loop Engineering is an open-source CLI toolkit that scaffolds and scores the control systems around coding agents — scheduling, state, worktrees, sub-agents, and memory — instead of relying on manual prompting. It ships npm packages for auditing readiness, estimating token costs, and syncing state, plus seven production patterns with honest cost ratings. The framework targets Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and Opencode, and advocates a phased rollout starting with report-only before granting write access.
- •CLI tool scaffolds agent loop infrastructure: skills, state, budget files, and a Loop Readiness Score
- •Seven production patterns with token-cost ratings from Low to Very High
- •Phased rollout: L1 report-only, L2 assisted fixes, L3 unattended with human gates
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