work-loop SKILL.md skillA

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work-loop from eugenelim/agent-ready-repo is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

mdr add eugenelim/agent-ready-repo/work-loop@git:20261106.a947d08

Pins git:20261106.a947d08 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade

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Kind

SKILL.md skill

Repository

eugenelim/agent-ready-repo

Path

.agents/skills/work-loop/SKILL.md

Versions recorded

35

Latest version

git:20261106.a947d08, committed Nov 6, 2026

First version recorded

Sep 4, 2026

Size

84,025 bytes

Repository stars

28

License

Apache-2.0

Use when implementing or resuming a non-trivial repository change: a feature, a fix whose cause is established (use `bug-fix` first to diagnose a defect whose cause is not), refactor, migration, framework or dependency upgrade, schema or API change, performance work, infrastructure or build-system change, reversion, or an existing build spec under `docs/specs/`. Also use for bare continuation commands ('resume', 'continue', 'keep going', 'pick up where I left off', 'let's get going') when…

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What the file says

# Skill: work-loop

## Work-loop contract

> **Surface** = stop the current loop, emit a brief description of the situation (what happened, what you tried, current state), name the minimum viable recovery rung, and wait for human direction. Do not retry, redispatch, or silently continue. Recovery rungs in cost order: **steer** (redirect this session with corrected instructions — cheapest; preserves context) / **rerun** (new session, gap-closed brief — keeps prior commits, discards context) / **salvage** (manual recovery from the last clean branch — use when agent state is irrecoverable). (Reviewers also "surface" findings in the descriptive sense — context disambiguates.)

State flow: `PLAN → EXECUTE → GATES → REVIEW → DECIDE`. After a fix, return to GATES.

```
   ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
   │                                                         │
   ▼                                                         │
PLAN  ──►  EXECUTE  ──►  GATES  ──►  REVIEW  ──►  DECIDE    │
                          │           │            │         │
                          └─ failed? ─┴── findings? ──── fix ┘
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

mdr add eugenelim/agent-ready-repo/work-loop@sha256:2bbe002143b5d331

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_uql6w25av36jtomo.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_uql6w25av36jtomo)

Versions

The registry has recorded 35 versions of this file, between Sep 4, 2026 and Nov 6, 2026, about one every 2 days.

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Source

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uql6w25av36jtomo
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=eugenelim/agent-ready-repo/work-loop
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2bbe002143b5d331ad382ec78fb2f845f9b01511df7b440f2ab9050f31a89dc6

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