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Practical, safety-first guides to writing and running agent loops — 5 published.

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How to Grade and Test a Loop Library Loop

Forward Future's Loop Library is one of the best public sources of practical agent loops: dozens of community-published prompts with use-when notes…

Sep 3, 2026 · 4 min[ Read ]
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Why Your Loop Got an F: How Agent-Loop Grading Actually Works

In August 2026 we ran fifteen published Ralph-style loops — real ones, read at the source, graded on their upstream descriptions exactly as shipped — through…

Aug 16, 2026 · 9 min[ Read ]
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How to Keep an Agent Loop From Running Away

You hand an agent a goal and walk away. That is the entire point — you stop watching. The danger is that the agent doesn't stop either. It chases an…

Jul 27, 2026 · 4 min[ Read ]
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The Anatomy of an Agent Loop: Five Parts and One Gate

This month, at least seven people published long "how to build agent loops" write-ups within a few weeks of each other. Different authors, different examples…

Jul 27, 2026 · 8 min[ Read ]
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Loop Engineering: What the 8-Million-View Threads Get Right, Wrong, and Made Up

Between June 7 and July 8, 2026, "loop engineering" went from a two-line post to a content wave: multi-part roadmaps, hour-long workshop recaps, copy-paste…

Jul 10, 2026 · 5 min[ Read ]