iterative-loop SKILL.md skillA

iterative-loop from jnpiyush/agentx is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jnpiyush/agentx/iterative-loop@v1.1.0

Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
jnpiyush/agentx
Path
.github/skills/development/iterative-loop/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
11
Latest version
v1.1.0, committed Oct 12, 2026
First version recorded
May 17, 2026
Size
16,641 bytes
Repository stars
19
License
Apache-2.0

Evidence-backed refinement loop for covered create/update/delete/rename of PRD, TechSpec, code or unit tests; other work is exempt. Covers setup, completion, recovery and post-loop test consent.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Iterative Loop (Ralph Loop)

> **Purpose**: Iterative self-referential refinement loops for AI agent tasks.
> **Scope**: Loop setup, completion criteria, progress tracking, self-correction patterns.

## Test Execution Boundary

Quality loops and reviews MUST NOT launch test suites, coverage, mutation,
property or fuzz runs, directly or through wrappers. Author and inspect tests;
verify with appropriate build, typecheck, lint, syntax and schema checks.
The canonical policy is `.github/AGENT-PROTOCOL.md` section 1.4.

After `loop complete` succeeds, the owning agent MUST ask, "Would you like to
run the test suite now?" Identify the proposed scope and wait for explicit
approval through the host's input tool/UI. No answer, dismissal or a decline
means not run. If approved, run the selected suite as a separate verification
task. A failure requires a new fix/review loop, not an automatic suite rerun.

CI/release gates and explicit standalone testing requests remain separate.
Review approval never implies tests passed or coverage was measured.

---

## When to Use This Skill

Applicability: [AGENT-PROTOCOL.md](../../../AGENT-PROTOCOL.md) section 1.1
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jnpiyush/agentx/iterative-loop@sha256:10149ec626a60541

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_4jzekfek4gek35ze.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4jzekfek4gek35ze)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 11 versions of this file, between May 17, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 15 days.

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v1.1.0 latest2026-10-12 85d093d 16,641 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-10-12 38fb931 18,275 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-10-10 87e53aa 16,656 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-26 e550030 18,906 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-25 244da72 18,354 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-23 ff2190a 18,202 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-15 f17c505 18,205 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-09-03 b3f2610 18,163 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-26 9e356eb 18,141 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-08-25 5df4fd5 18,417 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-05-17 4703a79 18,430 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (16641 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

jnpiyush/agentx · 19 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4jzekfek4gek35ze
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jnpiyush/agentx/iterative-loop
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/10149ec626a6054171fec6e54a6e47b6d02572700822438b9e12d6648751ced4

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