Loop Engineering Explained (The AI Agent Skill Nobody’s Teaching)

A practical guide to loop engineering: six components for building autonomous AI workflows that run without manual prompts.
– Automations: scheduling the loop’s heartbeat.
– Work trees: isolated lanes to prevent conflicts.
– Skills: playbooks so agents stop guessing.
– Sub-agents & memory: maker/checker verification and a persistent notebook to retain progress.

Quotes:

Stop prompting your agents. Start designing the loops that prompt them.

I don’t prompt Claude anymore. My job is to write loops.

A loop running alone without verification is also a loop making mistakes alone.