continuous-agent-loop

A continuous agent loop is an orchestration pattern for long-running autonomous agents that uses integrated quality gates, evaluation, and recovery controls to ensure deterministic progression and safe execution.

Automate long-running agents by orchestrating continuous loops with quality gates, evaluation harnesses, and recovery strategies like freezing loops or replays to handle failure modes such as churn and cost drift.

The best way to structure an RFC pipeline is using a combined pattern that includes RFC decomposition, code-quality gates, eval harnesses, and session persistence for safe, restartable execution.

Continuous agent loops handle failure modes by applying recovery controls that freeze loops and execute replays, mitigating churn, repeated retries, merge queue stalls, and cost drift.

You need loop persistence and quality gates when running complex automation scenarios that require deterministic progression, guardrails, and restartability across long-running autonomous agent operations.