Continuous Agent Loop Affaan M 2

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name: continuous-agent-loop
description: "Patterns for continuous autonomous agent loops with quality gates, evals, and recovery controls."
category: ai-agents-and-harness
source_repo: affaan-m/ECC
source_path: "skills/continuous-agent-loop/SKILL.md"
source_url: https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC/blob/HEAD/skills/continuous-agent-loop/SKILL.md
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# 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

```text
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

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**Source:** [`affaan-m/ECC`](https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC) → `skills/continuous-agent-loop/SKILL.md`

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