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title: "agent-looper"
description: "Portable Agent Plugins skills for designing and running Agent Looper fix-until-green cycles."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/agent-looper
last-updated: 2026-09-22
---

# agent-looper
Portable Agent Plugins skills for designing and running Agent Looper fix-until-green cycles.
- Slug: agent-looper
- Publisher: Paul Zgordan (dancingteeth)
- Repository: https://github.com/dancingteeth/agent-looper
- Manifest: plugins/agent-looper/plugin.json
- Version: 0.1.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): agent-tooling
- Skills: 4 (check-running-loops, design-loop, install-agent-looper, review-gate)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 2
- Repository created: 2026-07-04
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-21
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/agent-looper
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What agent-looper does, in the publisher's words

Guidance for designing and wiring Agent Looper, the fix-until-green harness. This plugin does not install the CLI; it teaches the IDE agent how to use it.

Reload the Cursor window, then exercise the skills / /loop-scaffold.

Repo uses a multi-plugin layout:

- cursor-plugin/marketplace.json: registry entry
- plugins/agent-looper/.cursor-plugin/plugin.json: Cursor Plugin manifest
- plugins/agent-looper/plugin.json: portable Agent Plugins manifest (skills-only clients, including Agent Looper itself)

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dancingteeth/agent-looper/HEAD/plugins/agent-looper/README.md

## Skills

- check-running-loops: Checks whether agent-loop / agent-loop-batch jobs are actually alive, stale, hung, dead, or done, for any worker/judge runtime (Cursor, Cline, OpenCode, Pi, Codex, DSH, Muse, Claude). Use when the user asks if loops are ok, stuck, running, healthy, or what the current batch status is; when they men…
- design-loop: Design a measurable Agent Looper cycle: frozen GOAL.md, verify.sh finish line, unknowns preflight, and scope limits. Use when creating or tightening a loop before running Agent Looper.
- install-agent-looper: Install and wire @dancingteeth/agent-looper in a consumer repo, dependency, agent-loop-init, scripts, and first dogfood run. Use when adding the harness or debugging why the CLI is missing.
- review-gate: Configure Agent Looper post-verify quality review and reviewGate, Proceed / Guide / Deny / Confirm, impact-severity gating, and when not to thrash another iteration. Use when writing REVIEWS.md or tuning postQualityReview.

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.