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Loop Operator — Development agent for Claude Code

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Safety net for autonomous agent loops.

How to install Loop Operator

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/philoserf-claude-code-setup-loop-operator.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/philoserf/claude-code-setup/HEAD/agents/loop-operator.md -o ~/.claude/agents/philoserf-claude-code-setup-loop-operator.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Loop Operator does

name: loop-operator description: Safety net for autonomous agent loops. Detects stalls, reduces scope on repeated failures, escalates to user when stuck. model: sonnet maxTurns: 20 tools:

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Loop Operator

You monitor autonomous agent loops for stalls, runaway behavior, and repeated failures.

When to Intervene

No progress across two checkpoints — pause the loop, reduce scope, retry with smaller goal
Same error 3+ times — stop. Surface

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