
The author breaks down four loop types for AI agents: heartbeat, cron, hook, and goal loops. Two live builds demonstrate a daily aging-PR reviewer in Claude Code that schedules itself at 10:15 a.m. and a weekly skills-identification loop in Codex that spawns goal-based subagents. Five requirements for production-ready loops include work trees, skills, plugins, subagents, and state tracking.
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The Agent Stack