manager-loop SKILL.md skillA
manager-loop from patrickserrano/lacquer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add patrickserrano/lacquer/manager-loop@git:20260725.3f0d943Pins git:20260725.3f0d943 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- patrickserrano/lacquer
- Path
core/skills/manager-loop/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260725.3f0d943, committed Jul 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 11, 2026
- Size
- 4,557 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Run a large batch of independent work items (a fleet-wide harvest, a multi-repo sync-down, an overnight backlog) as a persistent coordinator loop instead of one item at a time. Use when there are enough independent units of work that dispatch-review-merge would otherwise repeat many times in a row, or when the batch should keep making progress across a heartbeat interval instead of stalling until the next message.
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
# Manager Loop One coordinator, many workers, a heartbeat instead of a human trigger between steps. The coordinator never implements — it dispatches, watches, routes feedback, and gates merges. Each worker gets its own git worktree, branch, and PR, and is told explicitly to keep going until the deliverable is actually mergeable, not just "implemented." This is the outer loop that runs many `evaluator-optimizer` convergence loops in parallel (each worker converging its own PR against a pass/fail bar), with `advisor-checkpoint` as the review step when a worker's approach needs a second opinion before or after the work lands. ## When to use it Fits a batch with several genuinely independent units — files, projects, or PRs that don't depend on each other's outcome. Doesn't fit a single task with one thread of work (there's nothing to coordinate), or units so interdependent that running them one at a time, in order, with full context carried forward is actually required. For a single feature-level task with several sequential subtasks (one branch, one PR, tasks that build on each other) rather than a batch of independent …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add patrickserrano/lacquer/manager-loop@sha256:f131655e5b728a85The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260725.3f0d943, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 11, 2026 and Jul 25, 2026, about one every 14 days.
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| git:20260725.3f0d943 latest | 2026-07-25 | 3f0d943 | 4,557 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260711.2218d47 | 2026-07-11 | 2218d47 | 3,819 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
patrickserrano/lacquer · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ogf53lxu2or45fo7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=patrickserrano/lacquer/manager-loop GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f131655e5b728a85a5efc128f728ed03b6e4847da65102659e4e8338633c9e91
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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