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| <div class="eyebrow">Awesome Loop Engineering</div> |
| <h1>Design loops, not just prompts.</h1> |
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| Loop Engineering is the AI and coding-agent practice of designing recurring systems that discover work, delegate it to agents, verify results, persist state, decide next actions, and run again. |
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| <a class="button primary" href="https://github.com/ChaoYue0307/awesome-loop-engineering">Open GitHub Repo</a> |
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| <strong>Canonical definition:</strong> |
| Loop Engineering is the AI and coding-agent practice of designing recurring systems that discover work, delegate it to agents, verify results, persist state, decide next actions, and run again on a cadence, event, or until a verifiable goal is reached. |
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| <h2>The Stack</h2> |
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| <div class="layer"><strong>Prompt Engineering</strong><br>What should I say to the model?</div> |
| <div class="layer"><strong>Context Engineering</strong><br>What state and knowledge should the model see?</div> |
| <div class="layer"><strong>Harness Engineering</strong><br>What tools, permissions, tests, and sandboxes surround one run?</div> |
| <div class="layer"><strong>Loop Engineering</strong><br>What recurring system governs agent work over time?</div> |
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| <h2>What The Repo Contains</h2> |
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| <li>Curated papers, blogs, docs, tools, benchmarks, and patterns.</li> |
| <li>Manifesto, taxonomy, comparison guide, and anti-patterns.</li> |
| <li>Validated loop contract schema and example loop specs.</li> |
| <li>Pattern library for PR, CI, docs, deploy, feedback, dependency, eval, security, cost, and bug-hunting loops.</li> |
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| <h2>Contribute</h2> |
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| Share resources, corrections, or real loop patterns with trigger, intake, delegation, verification, state, budget, escalation, and receipts. |
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| <p><a href="https://github.com/ChaoYue0307/awesome-loop-engineering/issues/1">Join the community pattern thread</a></p> |
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| <h3>Start Here</h3> |
| <p>Use the README for the complete curated map and contribution path.</p> |
| <p><a href="https://github.com/ChaoYue0307/awesome-loop-engineering/blob/main/README.md">Read the README</a></p> |
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| <h3>Field Guides</h3> |
| <p>Understand the concept, boundaries, taxonomy, anti-patterns, and comparisons.</p> |
| <p><a href="https://github.com/ChaoYue0307/awesome-loop-engineering/blob/main/MANIFESTO.md">Read the Manifesto</a></p> |
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| <h3>Build A Loop</h3> |
| <p>Start from validated JSON specs or the pattern template.</p> |
| <p><a href="https://github.com/ChaoYue0307/awesome-loop-engineering/tree/main/examples">View examples</a></p> |
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| This is an early curated map of an emerging practice, not a final standard. |
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