Getting started with loops

The Claude Code team’s taxonomy of loops, pinning down a term the discourse had left fuzzy: agents repeating cycles of work until a stop condition is met. Turn-based (the ordinary agentic loop), goal-based (/goal with an evaluator model checking your stop condition: “get the Lighthouse score to 90, stop after 5 tries”), and time-based (/loop and /schedule for recurring work or polling external systems). The practical advice: encode your manual verification steps as skills so the agent can check its own work end to end, and make the checks as quantitative as possible.