Loop Ops — outer-loop design discipline

A loop is not a prompt. Turn-by-turn prompting puts you in the loop forever. Loop engineering inverts it: you design a recurring process with memory, verification, and boundaries that discovers work, hands it to agents, verifies the result, and decides — on a schedule or until a goal is met — whether to land it or escalate to a human.

"You shouldn't be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing the loops that prompt your agents." — Peter Steinberger

This skill is the outer loop: the orchestration layer above a single agent run. It is the twin of iterate — iterate is the inner loop (one metric, one session, git-as-memory); loop-ops is the design discipline for the loop that schedules and gates inner runs. It does not reimplement spawning or landing; it composes what this repo already ships.

The six primitives → what owns each here